Queens Locations

<i>Using the reasoning that many of the “new people” offer, that “the City” is in fact the entire core of the Big Apple and not just Manhattan island, we’d have to incorporate Newark, Hoboken, Jersey City, Yonkers, and the southern reaches of White Plains and Connecticut into the arrangement.</i> Um, no. Do you pay land taxes, either via your maintenance or your rent to NYC? Congrats you live in the city. When you call the cops, do you get the NYPD? Congrats, you live in the city. If you have a child living with you, does the child have the option of going to a NYC-run public school? Congrats, you live in the city. Now, if you are from Queens, talking to someone from, say, the Bronx or Westchester or wherever, would you say you "live in the city"? No. And although I know a lot of kids when I was growing up in the BX/Qns would call Manhattan "the city" it always struck me as odd. I've always called it Manhattan - in the same way you'd say you are from the Bronx or from Staten Island or wherever.

There isn't a solution to the overcrowding on the trains, in my opinion. There isn't any possible way to expand the system with underground real estate already crowded with utility lines and the train tunnels. Where would another tunnel be able to be built or tracks above placed? There is no room above or below ground. Apartment buildings continue to be built and more and more people will fill up an already crowded system. The infrastructure of the city will not be able to support all of this. As a native New Yorker, I plan on leaving the city next year. I grew up in and still live in Queens. Rents continue to go up and you can't buy a house or an apartment for a reasonable price. I make a decent salary and It's still out of reach which amazes me. I tell my friends, if you think it's crowded now...wait another couple years and you'll really be complaining about overcrowded trains. Pretty much overcrowded everywhere. And, you'll be priced out of your apartment. It's sad, but the city is really catering only to the top 1% now. What's sadder, people who aren't in the 1% are willing to pay for it because they think it's cool.

I brought a house in astoria last month and another place in sunnyside/hunters point border area. I use to only have places in brooklyn.

I've photographed a few of these as well. https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=fdny&ss=2&ct=6&mt=all&w=59294382%40N00&adv=1