From the NY Times:In Whitestone, Queens, there is a tiny fish store that thinks it is a music store.
Its name is Porgy & Bass, and it is owned by a 61-year-old woman named Jane Cho, whose love of Gershwin is obvious.
But her main man is Mozart, and one of his violin concertos filled the cramped shop on Wednesday evening as Ms. Cho was closing. Musical witticisms were written on the handwritten sign offering fish specials.
Fish dumplings were being sold by the “ensemble”; one could buy a “solo” portion or a “chorus” portion. On the shelves, the Old Bay seasoning shared space with a Mozart biography. Stray display signs — Stuffed Clams $2.39; Sea Scallops $11.99 — lay next to Pavarotti recordings. A small portrait of Beethoven hung next to the Board of Health certification.
Ms. Cho, a Korean immigrant, said she opened the place five years ago and named it after the Gershwin opera.
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And in the words of the famous, Gypsy Rose Lee, "You gotta have a gimmick...
If music be the food of love; play on.
William Shakespeare
I bet the boobs on Astorians.com wish they had something like this down the block from them.
they do, its called EL MUNDO DEESCOUN.
How about the wondering Flu i mean taco truck?
Famed Astoria cuisine at a new level.
BTW, did anyone see the daylabors polluting Broadway? They now have their own food vendor with a line of pinapples sitting on the service counter.
Funny, Vallone may be their patron, but he doesn't patronize them.
"How about the wondering [sic] Flu i mean taco truck?"
I realize you're trying to make a "point" by dissing this particular method of food delivery. But these things are everywhere, you moron. They even comprise an entire category of commercial auto underwriting business.
"BTW, did anyone see the daylabors [sic] polluting Broadway? They now have their own food vendor with a line of pinapples [sic] sitting on the service counter."
Well, the OP about a Korean was tagged "immigrants," so I guess that's license for the peanut gallery to start deriding whatever immigrant group they care to, for whatever petty reasons.
I'm glad the political correctness police are monitoring the blog. Cyberspace is a bit safer with you on the case!
But these things are everywhere, you moron.
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Really. Yes, yes, yes, I know, Astoria competes with Manhattan
he he he
I can walk up all the way from Battery to Central Park. Do not see a single taco truck selling 'bistek'.
Certainly nothing with pineapples proudly displayed in front.
And i don't see those Indians selling pastries or ices. Really sanitary, no?
BTW, everyone is talking that traffic is down on astorians.com.
tsk tsk tsk. mabye you should start a Spanish version?
I can walk up all the way from Battery to Central Park. Do not see a single taco truck selling 'bistek'
Well you can see them on Roosevelt Avenue under the el, and soon on 31st Street under THAT el after you morons pass that disasterous 'downzoning' study.
Those damn trucks are popping up everywhere. It seems like they tested the waters, and feel safe enough in this city to do abything they damn well please without interference from the government officials who WE voted for. God Bless America.
I can walk up all the way from Battery to Central Park. Do not see a single taco truck selling 'bistek'.
Certainly nothing with pineapples proudly displayed in front.
Well, that's your secret right there. You're going through life with your eyes closed. Either that or you're very selectively zig-zagging your way north to avoid the vendors all through the village, chelsea, garment district, etc.
This has nothing to do with Astoria. It's about the fact that in a city of 8 million plus, over half of which are minorities, some ignoramuses still think Wonder Bread is the pinnacle of nutrition.
I'm glad the political correctness police are monitoring the blog. Cyberspace is a bit safer with you on the case!
Whew! Irony from the Racial Purity Brotherhood. Just the breath of fresh air this city needs to "cleanse" certain neighborhoods.
If the city wants to cleanse a neighborhood, I suggest they start with the Main Street area of Flushing first. Piles and piles of garbage, and "that smell" is back and it's not even June yet.
Well, that's your secret right there. You're going through life with your eyes closed.
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No, he is not a machine hack naming streets while his community falls apart from illegal immigration, nor a newspaper that has become a whore from Blumturds money and reports garbage from his press flak's desk while turning a blind eye to trampling American democracy.
He calls what he sees.
And I see it too.
No, he is not a machine hack... turning a blind eye to trampling American democracy.
Okay, that was hallucinatory if not completely irrelevant.
He calls what he sees.
And I see it too.
Then you're both blindered. Maybe just plain stupid. C'mon... a walk from the Battery to Central Park (if you have the endurance to make it that far) and you see no brown skinned people selling food on the street? What century do you imagine yourself living in?
you see no brown skinned people selling food on the street?
Taco trucks selling bistek on 6th Avenue in the 40s, Hispanic food stands with pineapples as decor catering to guest workers in the Vallage and hallal mystery meat grills with tables and chairs right on the sidewalk in Soho?
Manhattan is not Queens my friend.
I see the Halall trucks all over Wall Street, ironic considering...
Plenty of fried chicken, drink trucks, hot dog carts run by every land down there and in Midtown too.
There is nothing new under the sun. Immigrants were scrambling for every loose buck a hundred years ago, and some of them now have judges and doctors as their American-born decendents.
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