From the Daily News:Fred Cantor, 59, a retired attorney who grew up in Fresh Meadows, said Queens has become the city’s Rodney Dangerfield.
“The borough gets no respect,” he said. “I always felt that it played second fiddle to Brooklyn even though Queens is a cool place, too.”
He’s looking to change that.
This week Cantor began making baseball caps that read “Queens = Qool” with the hopes of altering people’s perception of the borough.
He’s also looking to help his hometown with profits made from the hats.
For every $21.90 cap he sells, $2.00 will be going to the Queens Library Foundation, which raises money to support free programs offered through the Queens Library, said Cantor, who now lives in Connecticut.
Maybe it gets no respect because the people who claim to love it move out of the borough/city/state. And who is going to wear that corny cap, anyway?
21 comments:
Get rid of this guy - Qool - WTF? I am leaving asap. Queens sucks.
I would wear a Queens Crap hat and donate money to this blog before that hat.
$21.90???
"Queens Qool"?
C'mon...Queens can never be kool.
It's full of "chitrools" (Italian for cucumber, or dick heads).
"Fa en Quollo"...or "ba fong gool"...if you prefer.
Need a translation on that?
Damn good f-----g idea...a "Queens Crap" hat!
I'll buy the first one "Crappy".
Wadda ya say...at least an iron on patch for my Mets baseball cap?
I'm serious about it.
I live in Queens
only because I can't afford a similar lifestyle in Manhattan.
People often turn up their noses when I first inform them which borough I live in.
In order to do some damage control--I correct their mistaken notions that Queens is "ho-hum" by adding that I live in a national historic district--Broadway North, Flushing.
Then they grow a smile.
Are they now impressed? Who really can tell?
But that's a step up for me, so I'm content.
I would wear a Queens Crap hat and donate money to this blog before that hat.
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Me too! Do it Crappy!
Yes, the hat is lame but I appreciate the sentiment. You folks are really negative on Queens, so yeah, please run away to a shoebox in over crowded Manhattan or way over rated Brooklyn. I like Queens and I'm staying put.
Give the guy a break. At least he's trying.
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Give the guy a break. At least he's trying.
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So are you. Trying our patience, troll.
So you think that we're too negative on Queens?
Give us something to be positive about!
I'd trade a cape cod shit box, sitting on a 40' X 100' plot in Queens any day, for living in smaller digs (even a shoe box) in the Golden Isle of Manhattan.
Damn...Brooklyn is far better than Queens, any day.
The problem is that you Queens boosters are proud of hiding out in your dip-shit unimaginative, crooked borough...burrowing down for a long winter's nap!
My next door neighbor even boasts that he hasn't been on the subway for 30 years...and rarely ventures onto "the island". Archie Bunkerville...that's what we have to offer the world.
Norman Lear got it right with, "All In The Family".
My Queens crib is just an expedient crash pad.
I'm in Manhattan most of the week.
That's where the big time is...culture, food, employment opportunities, entertainment, etc.
Please rescue us all from the narrow minded parochial mentality of Queens.
Amen!
The mortgage on my house in Queens has been long paid off.
We just bought a two bedroom condo in blossoming Hell's Kitchen (10th Ave.) and am renting out my former Queens abode to a United Nations official for good money.
The rent more than covers our expenses on both of our properties.
I'm now living my Manhattan dream at only 50 years of age.
Bye, bye, backward, backwater, Bayside!
I now plant my tomatoes on our balcony.
Archie Bunkerville?
Or Louis Armstrongville?
Why did the great Satchmo prefer living in Queens? (Like me.)
I think he was onto something.
Bye, bye poseur. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Hi Ho Steverino. I-i-i'm Gordon Hathaway and I-i-i live in Manhattan. Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha.
I grew up in Manhattan and moved to Queens for sanity. Fuck the haters.
Maspeth Mom says.....Donate $2.00 for Queens Library for the hat...really.. it costs under $7 to have a hat embroidered...where is the other approx $11 going;into his pocket? HE CAN KEEP HIS HAT !because ripping people off is not QOOL!!! He will find out the people of Queens might not be so cool, but they certainly are not stupid!!!
The guy got the lettering on the hat wrong. "Queens = Qool"? Uh-uh. Queens = anti-Qool.
"Queens = Sanity"
I was the guy that told commenters that they are too negative on Queens and someone asked me to enlighten them on what's so great about Queens. I don't really want to. If you don't see it now on your own, than my enlightening you won’t help. It’ll take some article from the Times or the New Yorker before you even get it just a bit. And no, I’m not "hiding out". I’m a native NY’kr having lived a quarter of my life in Manhattan and make my 20 minute commute into Manhattan every day. And as much as I’ve thought about moving to Manhattan for the convenience, several times, I just don’t have the love for it. If I want to take in some Manhattan culture, it’s a quick 20 minute ride. When it comes to culture, there is tons of it in Queens. And the borough has always been the home to people of the arts and continues to. Discussing Louis Armstrong is just the tip of the iceberg. When it comes to food, international flavors don’t get any more authentic unless you’re flying abroad. And, yes, the money and job opportunities are in Manhattan, but at the end of the day, I want come home to Queens. It’s just my preference.
Obviously, people are entitled to their opinions about the message of the hat. But I want to clarify about where the money is going. I am not putting $11 in my pocket on each sale--and I did not do this as a big money-making venture for myself. The $2 figure going to the Queens Library Foundation represents more than 50% of the royalties from the hat, and, depending on what promo discount Zazzle sells the hat at, much more than 50% of the royalties. (On the book, I co-authored, "Fresh Meadows," we donated 100% of our royalties to the Queens Library Foundation--in that instance, for the benefit of the Fresh Meadows library branch.) I did this, in part, to help increase the visibility of the Queens Library Foundation, which I think does a lot of good borough-wide. And, I am not actually manufacturing the hats. I am "retired" only in a manner of speaking. I have major health issues which have severely limited me and forced me to stop working. So, with my limitations, I am doing this through Zazzle which sets the parameters on minimum price and does the manufacturing, processing, shipping, etc--so they get the lion's share of the proceeds. The Queens EDC has the capability of producing items like T-shirts, etc, so I have given them permission to use the logo in any advertising and for other merchandising efforts--and I am not seeking any compensation in connection with that. So I am hardly "ripping people off." Fred Cantor
I live in Maspeth, it's a great place to raise a family. Juniper Park is close by where my kids can meet up and play with friends and the streets are quiet. If I want to go out with friends Sunnyside and Woodside are great spots with many good bars and restaurants. If I want great Thai food, I hit a spot in Woodside that even foodies from Manhattan trek too. Then further down Roosevelt ave I can get amazing Mexican as well as other Spanish food. Corona is another favorite spot. I go eat at the Parkside then take the boys for an ice(remember the opening to the show King of Queens), then we stroll over to Spaghetti Park to watch the old timers play bachi. Oh and my favorite pizza joint in the city is in Queens, it's New Park Pizza in Howard Beach. It's too bad about Rockaway, I stopped driving out to Jones Beach last summer and would go there instead and it was really nice and starting to come back. Great fish tacos just off the boardwalk, I really hope they can all rebuild. To each his own, but save the hate for people like the leader of N Korea, and just agree to disagree if you don't like Queens.
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