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By John Roleke, About.com Guide to Queens, NY since 2003

If Brooklyn Is Fugheddaboudit, What's Queens?

Wednesday April 23, 2008
You've seen the slogans on the signs as you enter or leave Brooklyn: "Fugheddaboudit!" and "How Sweet It Is" and a couple others. But in Queens, the highway signs are more plain-Jane: "Entering Boro of Queens." If you could jazz them up, what would you say?

A comment on last week's post about Queens myths got me thinking about this. Kumar wrote, "the boros of Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx have more of a brand name recognition than Queens." Makes sense. We all associate more with neighborhoods than the borough.

But just for fun -- and without trying to oversell the place -- I thought a good Queens slogan would be: "Queens, stay for the food" or "Queens: Spider-man's hometown" or "Queens: Don't take the Van Wyck." More?

Comments
April 23, 2008 at 10:37 pm
(1) Pro-Zak says:

NYC’s Biggest Borough
We Got The Airports

April 24, 2008 at 4:29 am
(2) Queens Crapper says:

Welcome to the borough of concrete and crap!

April 24, 2008 at 8:43 am
(3) Dave Kerpen says:

Welcome to Queens: A Royal Experience.

This is actually a great point, John.
I am going to talk to Boro President Marshall about doing a boroughwide slogan contest!

April 24, 2008 at 9:15 am
(4) S Kmack says:

Welcome to Queens: People mostly just live here.

April 24, 2008 at 9:44 am
(5) Foodista says:

Queens – We Won’t Let You Go Hungry!

April 24, 2008 at 10:54 am
(6) Rosemarie says:

Queens lets keep it amongst ourselves.

April 24, 2008 at 11:39 am
(7) Kathy G says:

It’s good to be QUEENS.

April 24, 2008 at 12:24 pm
(8) Joey Deckle says:

Meet the Mets … and Spiderman too.

April 24, 2008 at 2:02 pm
(9) ECG says:

Queens – The Undiscovered County

April 24, 2008 at 5:20 pm
(10) Judy Close says:

Queens – “Flyover Country”

Queens – Offering You a Royal Welcome

Queens – NY’s Bedroom Borough. Just Don’t Fall Asleep at the Wheel!

Queens – Baseball, Tennis, Horseracing,
Beaches, Parks, concerts, universities, restaurants, shops, farming, fishing, gateway to Long Island and Manhattan

April 25, 2008 at 8:20 am
(11) Marilyn Bruno says:

Welcome to Queens
Boro of 120 languages

Benvenuto !
Bienvenito !
Bienvenir !
Boasvindas !
Dobrodošli na !
Vitat !
Walkomna !
Witaj !
Taggapin !
Wilkomen !
Velkommen !
Chroesawa !
Sevindirici !
etc.

April 25, 2008 at 9:07 am
(12) Joe Ballard says:

Queens: Where Diversity Reigns

May 9, 2008 at 1:08 am
(13) Queens Crapper says:

Queens: Land of the tweeded

May 13, 2008 at 8:40 pm
(14) Astorian4Life says:

Welcome to Queens: What Youse Lookin’ at?

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