You can't have the best without the worst rearing its ugly head. Enjoy Sorrow over the Worst of Queens in 2005. What drove you nuts in Queens this year? ... Read More

Here's my take on the Best of Queens in 2005. Enjoy! You got a best of Queens to add? Or a worst of Queens to suggest? ... Read More

Praise the Lord and Raise the Curtain (NY Times) Christmas Extravaganza at Korean Mega-Church in Flushing (Promise Church, 31st Ave at Whitestone Expwy) Trading Status for a Raise (NY Times) Brazilians coming to ... Read More

Got kids? Then this vacation week can get long. Get out and about at two of Queens best cultural spots. There's giant-sized puppetry at the Flushing Town Hall. ... Read More

Have you heard of Flickr? The website gives a free way to host and share digital photos online. What sets it apart from the Kodak Galleries of the ... Read More

The Christmas celebration continues at Queens County Farm Museum on Monday and Tuesday this week. There will be free tours of the farmhouse, plus arts and crafts for kids and ... Read More

Empanada Mania - "That is a lunch option I wish I had in Midtown!" - Bexn meets the Elvis of empanadas at Mama's Empanadas in Jackson Heights (85-05 Northern Blvd). Humble and ... Read More

Best wishes on this the first night of Hanukkah. Monday evening is the lighting of the largest Hanukkah Menorah in Queens, on the lawn of the Chabad of Eastern ... Read More

Wishing you and your family a great holiday, From Queens.About.com

Folks, Astorians, buddies, pals, What can I say? It's been real discovering the wonders of QNS with you. As you may know, I'm heading north to discover the likes Burlington, Vermont ... Read More

Though the strike has ended, it turned New Yorkers' lives upside down during one of the busiest weeks of the year. That's a polite way to say a lot ... Read More

Update - The Stike is Over! Subway and bus service to return by morning. Wednesday moved along faster than Tuesday. The LIRR's shuttle trains between Queens and Manhattan worked ... Read More

The elevated #7 (and N, W, J, Z, M, A, and C subways) obviously isn't running over Roosevelt Avenue. For once there's quiet on the street. The NY Times ... Read More

Got tips? Here's my take on getting around Queens without subway or bus. Got any words of transit wisdom to share? Or car pool info? Please ... Read More

Update: LIRR running shuttles to Manhattan from Shea Stadium (Flushing), Bayside, Jamaica, Queens Village, and Larurelton Tuesday evening Penn Station was a scene of mass confusion. The people who ... Read More

The subway strike cuts at social lives, not just work time. Spend your free hours in the neighborhood: Finding a dentist to yank out that snaggletooth Dreaming of crispy rice snacks ... Read More

City bus service to LaGuardia Airport (LGA) has been suspended for the lenght of the strike. However, you can still get a taxi to the airport or a private ... Read More

Jamaica, Queens, at the LIRR terminal was one of the worst bottlenecks in the borough today. Thousands who normally take the subway and bus lined up for trains to ... Read More

Green Bus Lines' workers belong to a different union than the MTA, and are not striking. You can take the bus today if you're lucky enough to be in ... Read More

Queens folks had the misfortune of being the first to feel the inconvenience of the transit strike. Today drivers from Jamaica Bus and Triboro Coach Company walked off the ... Read More

Jamaica Buses and Triborough Coach Company are both private bus companies in Queens that are in the process of being take over by the public MTA. Drivers for both ... Read More

Drive the Cross Island Expressway and you'll see signs noting "Queens Boro" or "Nassau County" seemingly every 100 yards. It's the zigzag of the Queens/Nassu County border that the ... Read More

How To Survive an MTA Subway and Bus Strike - Queens Edition Great Stores in Queens for Last Minute Gifts To Life! - The Lyrics of Sheldon Harnick - Flushing Town Hall ... Read More

If you just hiked over the 59th Street Bridge 2x to get to work today: nice work. You've just earned official Astorian status. If you're still up for it, there's a ... Read More

Worried about your commute on Friday? The MTA and the mass transit union have not yet come to an agreement, and a strike is a real threat. It ... Read More

This week Forgotten NY reports on the history and present-day of Corona, Queens. As always with Forgotten NY, the report is chuck full of great neighborhood details, including ... Read More

Local Queens bloggers and Chowhounds have been busy this December eating out to keep warm. Here are the best from the last week: A 95 - "It pays to order ... Read More

A recent fire in Elmhurst took the lives of three children and an elderly man, and has drawn more attention to illegal conversions in Queens. The building was a ... Read More

This Thursday Jackson Heights kicks off the holidays with the annual lighting festival. Share the season with neighbors and enjoy the Christmas tree, menorah, and holiday lights, plus music ... Read More

Hazel's House of Shoes in Bayside sells the latest in ladies shoes for less. Hazel's Shoes is a real independent operator with a flair for bargains and fashion, ... Read More

Mr. Rooney's Barbershop, a new MTV reality show, debuts early in 2006, and stars the real-life barbers working on Merrick Avenue. Hip-hop wanna-bees and stars, including 50 Cent, ... Read More

Digital Play Goes to the Movies - Opening and Death Race 2000 - December 9 Holiday Jazz and Gospel Concert at Black Spectrum Theater - December 10 and 11 Holiday Traditions at ... Read More

Snow! -- as in white flakes that fall from the sky. It will be a nice weekend to stroll down to Astoria Park. Should be pretty in white, ... Read More

If you thought Google Map's satellite images were clear, you'll be amazed by Microsoft's new Virtual Earth / Local Live maps. The images -- right now only of New ... Read More

St. Albans has sustained a rep as one of the best neighborhoods in southeastern Queens for generations. It's residential, middle-class Queens with a big touch of suburbia, but ... Read More

Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, extended New Years, whatever your holiday celebration is this year, please take a step out of your normal routine, and help someone else. The past year ... Read More

Photis, who writes the blog Fotaq, has up a great post on a lamb roast in Astoria. In a day when folks from all over write blogs on hanging ... Read More

Everyday people in Queens, from Queens, or coming to Queens email me asking for recommendations and offering their opinions on my posts. I love the insights, but want to encourage ... Read More

Jamaica Queens and Jamaica the island are connected by more than the name (by the way, the island was named for the colonial Long Island town of Jamaica!). It's ... Read More

Forgotten NY's recent post explores Edgemere, once a seaside resort, now desolation on the sea. Despite the photos, there are inhabited, even thriving parts of Edgemere. But the Forgotten NY ... Read More

Cherry Avenue in Flushing's Murray Hill was named for the nurseries that once flourished in the area, but present-day development has brought the street further from its floral past, and ... Read More

Long Island City artist Beverly Brown has a series of NYC holiday cards, most depicting in watercolors one of LIC's most memorable sights -- Midtown Manhattan. If you ... Read More

Charlie's Angels Goes Hong Kong - December 2 Rudresh Manhanthappa at JCAL - December 2 Jack Frost in Bayside - December 2 and 4 The Best of Colombia - Thalia Spanish Theater - ... Read More

Usually there's a weekend lull before the storm, between Thanksgiving and Christmas, when there's not much to do. Well, I guess we missed it 'cause there's lots happening. It's ... Read More

Is it crazy to mention So Close, a Hong Kong action flick starring high-kicking ladies, in almost the same breath as Ron Howard? I think it's just a ... Read More

So many cool things happening at the Museum of the Moving Image this December. One peak is Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, the directing and producing team, talking movies ... Read More