Will there be singing this time?

"Thank you so much for all you have done to support my political efforts. I'm loving being Borough President and am excited about the opportunities ahead for Queens and New York City.

I'd like to invite you to a fun event benefiting a great leader and a close friend: Congressman Joe Crowley. Joe's doing a summer party at the Bohemian Beer Garden in Astoria on Monday June 16th at 6pm. Tickets start at just $35 per person can can be purchased online. The event coincides with the USA/Ghana World Cup match which will be on the big screen!

Come join us!"

Sincerely,
Melinda

Bohemian Hall - the last authentic beer garden

From the NY Times:

How many beer gardens can one city — even a fiercely pro-beer-garden city like New York — possibly have?

“Basically, this is too much,” said Larry Spacek, manager of the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden in Astoria, the 100-year-old paterfamilias of the New York beer garden world. “Everybody sees our success and is copycatting us. I don’t know if it is progress, but probably we are reaching an era of beer gardens.”

According to Mr. Spacek — he pronounces his name SPAH-check (“I am not related to Sissy”) — a successful beer garden requires both the beer and the garden, and if there also happen to be bratwurst, schnitzels and enough communal tables to, as he put it, “sit around with 600 other fellows singing karaoke,” that’s all to the good. The problem, he suggested, resides with those beer gardens lacking foliage. It is true, he acknowledged, that some of these less-than-green newcomers have cut into the Bohemian Hall’s business. “But sooner or later,” he said, “the fact that we are in a real park, with real trees, will bring people back. This is very important.”