Astoria

We’ve learned that It’s My Park Day will be taking place at two different parks in Astoria this Saturday—Astoria Park and Astoria Heights Park. There are all sorts of activities—Zumba, (…)

It’s almost that time again—time for Open House NY Weekend! These two days—October 11 and 12 this year, as well as October 10 for Factory Friday—where you get the chance (…)

While we wait with bated breath for the 12th Annual Open House NY Weekend listings to hit the online stands, we wanted to let you know about how Astoria has (…)

Our friends at XXX Coffee shared the news that they’ll be offering free coffee on Saturday, 10/4 from 10-11 a.m. (only!!) at Socrates Sculpture Park! They are there usually during (…)

We recently learned about this new panoramic video installation at the Museum of the Moving Image, A Memory of Astoria, and it definitely piqued our interest. It was created by (…)

This week we were notified that participatory budgeting—AKA “What Would You Do With $1 Million?”—is coming to Astoria (Council District 22) via our councilman Costa Constantinides. Costa’s office emailed us (…)

As you can imagine, the ladies of We Heart Astoria are looking forward to the new women’s clothing (and more) store that’s being developed by our colleague Mackenzi, proprietor of Lockwood. (…)

The beauty that is Alobar’s maple bacon popcorn, a standard menu item since its beginning. I’ve been spending more time on Eater, checking out their new redesign (so far, I (…)

Food Talk explores savory fall food such as the okonomiyaki at Mu Ramen, the meze tasting at Zenon Taverna, Bear’s veal dumplings and more.

We are thrilled to let you know about the coveted award won by APAC during last night’s 2014 New York Innovative Theatre Awards ceremony. They won in the category of Outstanding Production of (…)

The view of the East River from Astoria’s waterfront along Vernon Blvd. Today we came across a couple of interesting stories on folks interacting with the East River and its inhabitants. (…)

We’re happy to help spread the news about Carnival of Love’s upcoming fundraiser, to be held at Central Lounge up in the northern part of Astoria (20-30 Steinway Street) on (…)

In the “that’s news to us” file, we’ve learned from the Queens Courier that the developers behind the mega project Astoria Cove finalized the sale of a handful of additional properties (…)

A fun 30th Avenue illustration map of all the places on 30th Avenue that we heart (includes, shops, restaurants, businesses, and general places of interest).

I’ve always loved this storefront and its signage. Thanks to AlexNYC on Astorians, we were tipped off to this great video over on Gothamist, Type Safari, where James Victore, a (…)