Queens is pretty great, it's not NYC but it's happening. They need to build more houses, have even more commercial space. It has it's own thriving culture, hasn't had the eyes of the elite new york rich international investors. Still the immigrant's city, the working person's place.
So many restaurants of so many cultures. So many languages. So many people. So many types of interests.
There's a few sketchy places I have had to walk through, the industrial areas. Why they exist I don't understand. Why there's large estates with so much land in such a dense city, makes no sense. Make more housing, make them dense, improve public transport, make housing affordable! Have the city be the true global megapolis media portrays it to be. It should and could be its own thing, disparate from its connection with the rest of the city.
It's not Manhattan though. It's great but it's not the cityy cityy yet. It's the medford to Manhattan's Boston. It can be great by itself, but that it's connected by birth with the island is an issue perhaps.
There's corruption, there's grime, there's the immigrant entrepreneurial spirit, there's hustling. It's what the world thinks is New York, it's the New York of the yore. It's the New New York.
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