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The Queens Botanical Garden was closed to visitors for two weeks during the winter season due to funding reductions, but is now considering closing its gates yet again.
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12 comments:
Not to worry...
their annual "Rose Ball" cotillion
will draw the big benefactors
(ha, ha) and save 'em!
Unfortunately, the Queens garden is the weakest of all of the botanical gardens. Staten Island has a beautiful Scholar's Garden, the New York Botanical Garden has dozens of Acres of uncut old growth forest and the Bronx River, Wave Hill has magnificent views of the palisades, and Brooklyn Botanic garden is a masterpiece of Victorian gardening design with special emphasis on Japanese and Chinese elements.
Queens has a new emphasis on sustainable design but is otherwise blah. Perhaps they should study how Queens Theatre in the Park is using innovative programs to bring in the community.
Theater In The Dark is a f-----g bust.
You must have loaded your pipe with something other than tobacco!
Jeff R. (or one of his groupies)
must have posted that last one.
A cut in its director's big salary
might help keep the gates open.
And she doesn't even live in NYC.
What garden?
Can you spot any flora hidden by that massive dominant uber-bunker
(the building of which involved killing a couple of mature Oak of trees)?
When QBG first touted the building of a new water environment... visions Monet's garden at Ghiverney danced in our heads!
Damn...
my urine stream has got more force than that trickling little piss pool of theirs.
Some visitors' attraction!
I'm going for a return visit to Wave Hill.
No, actually I have subscribed to this theatre for many years. Closing it would be a great loss. One can buy a complete series for the price of a single Broadway show, a free shuttle is included if you take the train and free parking if you don't. Main street in Flushing offers inexpensive pre-theater dining and the seats are ample enough not to destroy the back of a large Irish lady.
Few working folks can afford any kind of culture today. The theatre has excellent programs that reach out to every member of the Queens Community. The Asian series is especially good and a local restauranteur always generously donates food for opening day.
Its about time we support Queens instead of spending all our money in Manhattan or "the city" as we used to call it in my childhood.
One of the funniest scenes in Queens exists during wedding season. There is virtually "limo lock" outside the QBG: all the wedding parties and their photographers fight for the best vantage points inside the gardens for their connubial pix. The place is literally peppered with brides and grooms.
And the QBG charges them big bux for doing so.
Main street in Flushing offers inexpensive pre-theater dining and the seats are ample enough not to destroy the back of a large Irish lady.
JUST WHAT I NEED FOR THE PERFECT EVENING. MYSTERY MEAT BEFORE GOING TO A BUILDING THAT RIVALS THE TWEED COURTHOUSE FOR ABSORBING PUBLIC MONIES.
Few working folks can afford any kind of culture today.
SO GIVE THEM SOMETHING THEY NEED TO HOP INTO A CAR AND DRIVE ACROSS THE BORO WHEN ALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD
ENTERTAINMENT VENUES WERE GIVEN OVER TO DEVELOPMENT?
The theatre has excellent programs that reach out to every member of the Queens Community.
CODE FOR THEATRE THAT 'SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE' (LOOK UP 'TO TWEED').
LIKE THE 7 LINE, THE SO CALLED 'INTERNATIONAL EXPRESS' (CODE FOR 'ETHNIC SLUM')
The Asian series is especially good and a local restauranteur always generously donates food for opening day.
IM SURE ...
Maybe you should try it before b*tch*g. The entire subscription series is under a $100.00. Two ballgames tickets cost a lot more. Furthermore, Main Street is one of the main drags of Queens. If you don't like Chinese food, they McDonalds and Blimpies and all the other fast food restaurants your unadventurous heart could desire.
If you got out of the house once in a while you would not be afraid of people different from yourself. After all, the true meaning of "Ghetto" is where everyone of a particular ethnicity or religion is forced to live. You are walling yourself in your own ghetto.
I'd rather save up half a year to catch just one top notch Broadway show than to suffer the onslaughts of has-been talent that's provided at Theater In The Dark.
If I'm going to live in NYC, the entertainment capitol of the world, why should I have to settle for mediocre cut rate talent...might as well move to the boonies!
Jeff R's there because he's hooked up with burro hall in a nifty high paying patronage job.
The city spent tens of millions of taxpayers' dollars to "renovate" that rickety shack leftover from the 64 World's Fair!
Bye the way...we heard it's built on temporary pilings...is that true?
Well, its like everything else. Some people will save a year to get front-row tickets to the Yankees. Others will buy a ballgame subscription complete with snacks at the Staten Island minor league baseball park so their family can see games on a regular basis.
I have paid big bucks to see some pretty awful Broadway plays in Manhattan while enjoying excellent performances of classic theater such as Macbeth, the Three Musketeers; uusual dance experiences such as Swango or the performances by Chinese, Korean and Japanese dancers in Queens Theatre in the Park.
If it costs a fortune to try something new you will never go. If you are adventurous you can purchase a moderately-priced ticket and explore something new.
As far as the renovations go, I think you have something there. I was perfectly happy with the old theater,
Look Jeff....or is it Parkside
who's posting?
Practically every cultural institution in Queens was being strong armed into using the Parkside Group as their lobbyist to get funding.
There's better entertainment furnished by my cable provider than the crap that steps onto the stage at Theater In The Dark!
Then the money we all save by shunning your old over-rehabbed Theater In The Round '64 fair relic
we use to go on vacation.
Without that little jitney
you provide to keep your "theater" patrons safe from the muggers that frequent FMCP you'd be out of business.
Now BAM....that's a real attraction....alas in Brooklyn!
In Manhattan you've got a glittering neighborhood to walk around in....perchance you didn't like that Broadway show you just attended.
What have you got at your venue...regrets and a bus to take you to back to the #7?
C'mon fella...that dump is just sucking up the taxpayers' cash!
The Claire Shulman Theater indeed!
OOps....and lets not forget
QBG's Helen Marshal Auditorium.
It's politics as usual in Queens.
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