A quick trip to Queens.

[randomness]

M was off for a week between rotations in medical school, so I went down to visit him in Fresh Meadows. We had lunch at a local pizza place. It'd been a long time since I'd had New York style pizza. Conversation was too short. Nonetheless it was great to see him.

I decided that the day was warm enough that I wanted to get close to the water, so I drove down to Broad Channel and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, mostly to scout it out for bedfull_o_books, and to find out just how far it was from the nearest subway station (over a mile).

After that I considered driving down to Brighton Beach and Coney Island, but between my right contact lens attempting to eat my right eyeball, and the unusually badly jammed traffic on the Belt Parkway heading down towards Brooklyn--it's normally bad, but today it even the traffic reports were observing how bad it was; essentially stopped for most of the length of the Shore Parkway--I decided to head east instead, and continue my "how far apart are these stations" wanderings to Far Rockaway. Besides, I'd never been to Far Rockaway. The Far Rockaway subway station is about a half mile from the LIRR station through a neighborhood which doesn't look so great to walk in at night.

Having given traffic a couple of hours to settle down, and having pried the offending contact lens out of my eye after stopping off at the CVS in Howard Beach for a contact case and fluid, I thought I'd give the westbound Belt another try, but one look down at the traffic from the overpass convinced me that wasn't going anywhere.

On the Van Wyck, I realized I was so tired that even a stop for Chinese food in Flushing or Indian food in Jackson Heights didn't really appeal, so I drove straight back to Connecticut and went to sleep instead.

Comments

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Next time you're going to Queens let me know.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Sure. What's up?

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Knishes :)
Real NY knishes.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool. Well, I will definitely let you know, particularly if it's a NYC->Boston run that follows. (How well do they travel? Should I bring a cooler or something?)

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

The potato ones travel very well and if the place I'm thinking of still exists they will package them for travel and freeze them.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

"Knish Knosh" on Queens Blvd near 67th Ave in Forest Hills. Best knishes ever. And for pizza Shimon's Pizza Falafel Dairy Restaurant 71-24 Main Street Flushing, NY 11367. When I left NY we'd make runs back to NY and get pizza's set up for travel and bring them back to Boston with us. I really should just make a trip to NY and visit my Tanta and go to these places. *sigh*

[evilbunnymayhem.livejournal.com]

would you an bedfullabooks perhaps be game for a trip mid august to NYC to see "Spamalot"? My birthday is coming up and was thinking that would be fun- several people had conversed about going down anyhow- what do you think?

[irielle.livejournal.com]

Ouch! Hope your eye feels better soon.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Sure, although planning that far ahead makes my head hurt. :)

(I'm always up for going into NY; dunno whether tickets to "Spamalot" will fit in my budget.)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's fine. My contacts occasionally get cranky, but it's nothing serious. But thanks!

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Ack! I'm down in CT with bedfull_o_books this weekend. But I'm definitely interested, just not in town...