Exactly. It's a very subtle thing....how native NYers, or else those-in-the-know, refer to Manhattan. If we say we are 'going into the city', that means Manhattan. But when we refer to NYC or more succintly 'New York', we mean the entire city and all the five boroughs that comprise it.
Astoria did not need gentrification! Gentrification ruined Astoria. I lived and worked there almost 20 years. I know the business owners in the video. Hardworking people. The pandemic was the final nail in the coffin.
I live two blocks away from those Amtrak tracks and I've never heard it. She must live right next to them, so I'd hardly characterize that as being a problem that most people in the neighborhood face.
Also, there's a huge difference between the rumble of an Amtrak train quickly speeding by, versus...er... I don't know.... the above-ground N train squealing to a stop at Astoria-Ditmars and then the subsequent 'WHHHHOOOO' sound of the brakes/exhaust...or whatever makes that sound...or the N rounding the curve by Queensboro Plaza...
...and I blame the local politicians, whom I never hear saying one word about all of this....and I blame REBNY.... local realtors...scum 'developers' and the greedy landlords who, instead of just being happy with enough rent to cover expensese plus a bit of cushion, always want moremoremore. Granted, it's generally the local realtors who plant the idea in the landlords heads of 'oh....$1800 is too low for your 1BR....we should be asking for $2100...that's the 'going rate' now...' And sadly, many landlords go right along with the realtor instead of questioning it or saying 'yeah, but you know...I'm happy just getting $1800'. Course, the local realtors always want to push for higher rents, because it means more commission/% for them! Steinway is 'littered' with empty storefronts now. Many blocks have MULTIPLE empty storefronts. It's depressing. On just about every side street, there are anywhere from 1-3 home lots which have been RAZED, with new 'luxury apartment buildings' going up, typically in ugly cookie-cutter style. Streets are more clogged than ever with cars, and most bike lanes that have been added were very poorly thought out. (A mere 'white line' down the side of a narrow street does NOTHING to protect cyclists from cars, esp parked cars and where cyclists can get 'doored'.) DoT and NYPD do nothing about rampant double-parking, parking in bus stops, idling in bike lanes, etc. Now we have more Citibikes on the street, and even mopeds ('Revel') now. Astoria streets have become the Wild West. Everyone now wants a bigger, more 'badass' SUV. It's gotta be a NavigatorEscaladeHummerRangeRoverDenaliYukonF150JeepSuburban or similar. Utterly ridiculous for such vehicles to be in a place like NYC...a supposed 'walking city'! What's next, GM coming out with a line of small army tanks for the American driver? Where are the 'urban planners' for NYC? Nowhere to be found.
@@douglasw1545 Not every Neighborhood has to be country club material,I'd rather some places to be a little more dangerous and poorer,but have more culture.
@@douglasw1545 yeah but Astoria was never, ever a “crap” neighborhood. It was once a solid working class, blue collar town where a kid could grow up comfortably. Families with children are fleeing Astoria, you don’t even see them walking around anymore. It’s sad to see if you grew up there.
@@Lisa_Everswow, very well said my friend!! You forgot to add road rage too! one crazy lady dragged a poor delivery guy down 35th st near ditmars without stopping. killing him and got away with it. All because she wanted to pass an Uber driver looking for his costumer. So said may the Mexican guy rest in peace
The Astoria queens I grew up in is gone. Gentrification and greed has killed it. Steinway Street is ghost town nowadays. So many empty storefronts very sad to see.
I hope New York times will do a similar video for JAMAICA QUEENS. It is a very interesting part of Queens , there are a lot of great neighborhoods like Laurelton, Cambria Heights, Rosedale , Saint Albans, Queens Village , Rochdale Village etc. And I believe the living cost in JAMAICA QUEENS is cheaper than any other parts of Queens, one bedroom in Jamaica is $1200 , $1300 , what you get for one bedroom in Astoria for $1600, $1800 is 2 bedrooms here in Jamaica and you find everything that you want here .
Funny, ciel222 before I scrolled down to the comments, I was thinking the same thing. I hope they do a piece on Jamaica/Rochdale/Cambria Heights neighborhoods. I grew up there. There are some great areas in southeast Queens, and multicultural, as well.
The Greeks still own a lot of the property/buildings in Astoria but most of them are gone and with them, the old neighborhood feeling. The neighborhood now resembles more Williamsburg than anything else. Gentrified and soulless.
The area immediately surrounding the subway is definitely a show of how Astoria has been gentrified, one business after the other being swapped out for either unaffordable apartments or multi-trillion dollar stores. They took The Igloo and the Pizza Palace and for what? The 4th chain donut store in a 30-second radius?
Lived in Astoria my entire four years working and living in the NYC area. it was great. . . never really heard booms. . . not sure what that is .. never heard the amtrak train but some mornings you can hear the trains . . . which i liked. cool views of the RFK which is now something else i presume. . .. great place . . i would move back knowing they have the light-rail now to brooklyn.
The only times I've been to Astoria Ditmars is to catch the bus to Laguardia. Everytime I see the names Astoria-Ditmars it just reminds me of having to fly back home :( lol
if you can get there, do so being there is an everlasting experience, I still remember my first ti going while still in high school but, if you're uptight or conservative I'd strongly suggest you skip it altogether
BORN & RAISED THERE !!! BACK WHEN IT WAS THE TRUE MELTING POT OF NEW YORK !!!!! EVERY COLOR, EVERY RELIGION, EVERY NATIONALITY !!!! I Went to school with Tony Bennett’s nephew (Anthony) !!
Keep the gentrification going higher. I need more rent. Build skyscrapers on 31st and 21ave. Raise taxes like crazy and make sure you pass that legislation bill where gifted houses to sons and daughters are charged up to 100k on taxes. Raise the death tax 30%.
Why New York Times has reported for queens that the best location ever and what about in The Bronx anyway or Brooklyn or something like that you know I'm in Queens it's not the biggest popular ever it's still the lowest whatever the problem is that I please have much difficult like bringing like different people like language so I don't know why it is so negativity right now on that location because it is not feel like it is positive so quiz need to wake up and the people that are in that location to bring up different people and how is going to be United with different people including from you or me or anyone else United First different language in Queens
james morton When I grew up in Astoria, we Had Every Color, Religion etc. WE ALL GOT ALONG !!! NEVER PLAYED THE RACE CARD !! No Need to !! MY HIGH SCHOOL HAD EVERYTHING (Long Island City HS)
Greeks are gone. Most have fled to college point, Whitestone and Long Island. They still own most of the buildings though, but the Greek feel of the neighborhood is long gone.
@@gregchris418Astoria was here before greeks ever stepped foot there and it's named after john jacob astor a german american businessman so there's clearly nothing greek about astoria just because some ethnicity decides to move there all of a sudden it's greek ? Foh with that mindset.
@@ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΣ nothing Greek about Astoria? Really? I guess you didn't watch the video, just read the comments. Btw, That's a very ignorant comment to make, and you call yourself elinas, what a joke! Guess what vlaho, B4 astor there were Indians.
Don't agree with this video, gentrification ruined another great middle class neighborhood. My family was forced to move out after rent hikes and i wound up in jersey. I was born and raised in the good astoria going to Ps84 and Is141 and playing rec baseball at ICYP. The new astoria is over priced and will be the next Williamsburg.
I don’t like the queens at all . It’s not queens it’s Beijing + Bangladesh don’t expect to feel in America there . I personally don’t like it very depressing area
America is a melting pot. If there's many different cultures and races together getting along and living in an area, that's about as American as you can get. thts the america im proud of.
The white guy at 0:19 is obviously one of those transplants. Astoria, Queens IS New York. Manhattan is only one borough of the larger nyc!
+Bella ughhhh i wanted to grab him from the screen and punch him!
Manhattan is New York County, to be fair. Most Brooklyn and Queens natives call Manhattan "the City."
RB Zee 🛡️🛡️🛡️ Yes Its the City but each Borough Is still New York City
Exactly. It's a very subtle thing....how native NYers, or else those-in-the-know, refer to Manhattan. If we say we are 'going into the city', that means Manhattan. But when we refer to NYC or more succintly 'New York', we mean the entire city and all the five boroughs that comprise it.
Bella
There is only one “human” on the screen ay 0:19. So, why did you feel it necessary to point out someone’s ethnicity?
Astoria did not need gentrification! Gentrification ruined Astoria. I lived and worked there almost 20 years. I know the business owners in the video. Hardworking people. The pandemic was the final nail in the coffin.
Lots of Greeks In Astoria, lots came here in the 70s and have made this neighborhood a great place to find lots of good greek food and culture
Var.40
I was there before the Greeks moved in !!
ACTUALLY, GREEKS LIVED THERE BEFORE THE GREEKS MOVED IN !!!
EVERY RACE, CREED, ETC. LIVED THERE
Cypriots!
''You can bury me in the garden of the backyard''lol..Thats climax of this video..
My family comes from Astoria and the neighborhood lost its charm, barely any native New Yorkers there anymore. Gentrification really is a shame
It's all getting gentrified,however you feel on Immigration,you have to admit these new people coming in have no culture.
I wouldn’t say that, it’s less however there are still some very nice and beautiful sights and food in the neighborhood.
Its even worse post pandemic.
The crowd that lives there now leaves fast too. No one stays there too long.
Great video, I'd love to see more neighborhoods.
Astoria will always be my home. To bad the rent is too expensive. Love waking up getting a bacon egg and cheese with a Arizona and I'm out!
So true. Sniff.
Astoria is like a Greek colony
All the cars and reckless drivers and illegal parking/idling everywhere, are ruining Astoria.
Melbourne, Australia is actually the second largest Greek city in the world outside of Athens. Has been for a while too
🙌🙌🙌🙌 ~ I've been to Astoria NYC and its got the Greek "flavour" ~ But Not like Melb. Aust. (Oakleigh in particular)😃😃
I think it's Thessaloniki is the second not Melbourne
Yess I know Olympia Valance is from there
@@totsmini3105I've been to both places, Astoria is better, everything is close distance. Melbourne you need a car
I live two blocks away from those Amtrak tracks and I've never heard it. She must live right next to them, so I'd hardly characterize that as being a problem that most people in the neighborhood face.
Also, there's a huge difference between the rumble of an Amtrak train quickly speeding by, versus...er... I don't know.... the above-ground N train squealing to a stop at Astoria-Ditmars and then the subsequent 'WHHHHOOOO' sound of the brakes/exhaust...or whatever makes that sound...or the N rounding the curve by Queensboro Plaza...
My former neighborhood! I absolutely love the culture + food + people + everything else about here :)
This makes me want to live there for no reason.
It's way too expensive to live in Astoria! I feel like that $1700-$2500 dollar rent could go to a mortgage.
U totally agree
Watching stuff like this makes me miss home ...
Gentrification has destroyed Astoria
...and I blame the local politicians, whom I never hear saying one word about all of this....and I blame REBNY.... local realtors...scum 'developers' and the greedy landlords who, instead of just being happy with enough rent to cover expensese plus a bit of cushion, always want moremoremore. Granted, it's generally the local realtors who plant the idea in the landlords heads of 'oh....$1800 is too low for your 1BR....we should be asking for $2100...that's the 'going rate' now...' And sadly, many landlords go right along with the realtor instead of questioning it or saying 'yeah, but you know...I'm happy just getting $1800'. Course, the local realtors always want to push for higher rents, because it means more commission/% for them!
Steinway is 'littered' with empty storefronts now. Many blocks have MULTIPLE empty storefronts. It's depressing.
On just about every side street, there are anywhere from 1-3 home lots which have been RAZED, with new 'luxury apartment buildings' going up, typically in ugly cookie-cutter style.
Streets are more clogged than ever with cars, and most bike lanes that have been added were very poorly thought out. (A mere 'white line' down the side of a narrow street does NOTHING to protect cyclists from cars, esp parked cars and where cyclists can get 'doored'.) DoT and NYPD do nothing about rampant double-parking, parking in bus stops, idling in bike lanes, etc. Now we have more Citibikes on the street, and even mopeds ('Revel') now. Astoria streets have become the Wild West. Everyone now wants a bigger, more 'badass' SUV. It's gotta be a NavigatorEscaladeHummerRangeRoverDenaliYukonF150JeepSuburban or similar. Utterly ridiculous for such vehicles to be in a place like NYC...a supposed 'walking city'! What's next, GM coming out with a line of small army tanks for the American driver?
Where are the 'urban planners' for NYC? Nowhere to be found.
Gentrification is good it turns crap all neighborhoods to nice ones
@@douglasw1545 Not every Neighborhood has to be country club material,I'd rather some places to be a little more dangerous and poorer,but have more culture.
@@douglasw1545 yeah but Astoria was never, ever a “crap” neighborhood. It was once a solid working class, blue collar town where a kid could grow up comfortably. Families with children are fleeing Astoria, you don’t even see them walking around anymore. It’s sad to see if you grew up there.
@@Lisa_Everswow, very well said my friend!! You forgot to add road rage too! one crazy lady dragged a poor delivery guy down 35th st near ditmars without stopping. killing him and got away with it. All because she wanted to pass an Uber driver looking for his costumer. So said may the Mexican guy rest in peace
The Astoria queens I grew up in is gone. Gentrification and greed has killed it. Steinway Street is ghost town nowadays. So many empty storefronts very sad to see.
Ikr, I still live around there though.
Sebastien Vrod
YES, YOU ARE CORRECT !!
Born & Raised there !!!
Not really. Steinway street is still bustling.
Astoria is where I grew up and I'm from let's go Greek astoria opa
Astoria was the best , too bad i can barely recognize it anymore. Lived on 41 st n 28th av , went to Bryan H.S. ,Astoria is #1.
Moncho Mendez - Rivas
LONG ISLAND CITY HS HERE !!!
29St Ditmars Blvd - Steinway St Ditmars Blvd
My first grade school was P.S. 17 on 30th ave.
I hope New York times will do a similar video for JAMAICA QUEENS.
It is a very interesting part of Queens , there are a lot of great neighborhoods like Laurelton, Cambria Heights, Rosedale , Saint Albans, Queens Village , Rochdale Village etc. And I believe the living cost in JAMAICA QUEENS is cheaper than any other parts of Queens, one bedroom in Jamaica is $1200 , $1300 , what you get for one bedroom in Astoria for $1600, $1800 is 2 bedrooms here in Jamaica and you find everything that you want here .
if
Steven Essig If what??
I would also love to see TNYT visit Richmond & South Richmond Hill, Queens. There's a lot to see, eat & do out here too!!!
LO by
Gloria Jandovitz Why you wrote LO by????
Please don't bury her in the backyard... Thank you.
Funny, ciel222 before I scrolled down to the comments, I was thinking the same thing. I hope they do a piece on Jamaica/Rochdale/Cambria Heights neighborhoods. I grew up there. There are some great areas in southeast Queens, and multicultural, as well.
💕💕We LOVED Astoria😃 ~ Would go back again!!
I grew up in Astoria❤❤❤!! my hometown forever!
#SZSkincare
Me Too !!!
Two blocks away from Where George’s Parents lived (Seinfeld TV show)
Between Ditmars Blvd & 23rd Ave.
The Greeks still own a lot of the property/buildings in Astoria but most of them are gone and with them, the old neighborhood feeling. The neighborhood now resembles more Williamsburg than anything else. Gentrified and soulless.
The area immediately surrounding the subway is definitely a show of how Astoria has been gentrified, one business after the other being swapped out for either unaffordable apartments or multi-trillion dollar stores. They took The Igloo and the Pizza Palace and for what? The 4th chain donut store in a 30-second radius?
I love Astoria. So many memories when my grandparents were alive.
Yay my neighborhood on TH-cam!
Great video. 🙂
When I see the locations of Astoria-Ditmars in Queens, it's almost like an Italian-White neighborhood.
Excellent video. I want to visit Astoria! It's right by LaGuardia airport, too.
they shouldve filmed this video during the spring time lol
opening a juicebar on 33rd street for people of astoria with aim to serve quality with lowest price.
This is my dream place!
I miss so much Astoria Ditmars
Lived in Astoria my entire four years working and living in the NYC area. it was great. . . never really heard booms. . . not sure what that is .. never heard the amtrak train but some mornings you can hear the trains . . . which i liked. cool views of the RFK which is now something else i presume. . .. great place . . i would move back knowing they have the light-rail now to brooklyn.
The prices in all of these videos are crazy
The only times I've been to Astoria Ditmars is to catch the bus to Laguardia. Everytime I see the names Astoria-Ditmars it just reminds me of having to fly back home :( lol
I love everything about this.
I love Astoria Queens🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
I Agreed..🙏🙏 Awesome Community...😎😎 Worked there..👌👍🍻🍺
Astoria is the outhouse of Queens.
I heard astoria has always had bars
When will we see Greenwich Village? I have heard so much about that place but nothing really of note.
Thanks.
if you can get there, do so being there is an everlasting experience, I still remember my first ti going while still in high school but, if you're uptight or conservative I'd strongly suggest you skip it altogether
My old neighborhood!
InBoccaChiusa
Me too !!
@@gerryk3114 I went to Bryant High School and Queens College. I haven't been there in a very long time.
Sunnyside all day !!
Nonos was living there and been to that church.
El señor estamates era mi patrón trabaje para el en el restaurante
Oh Shia is why I saw a camera outside my house
BORN & RAISED THERE !!!
BACK WHEN IT WAS THE TRUE MELTING POT OF NEW YORK !!!!!
EVERY COLOR, EVERY RELIGION, EVERY NATIONALITY !!!!
I Went to school with Tony Bennett’s nephew (Anthony) !!
It’s still that way. Visited Astoria multiple times this year and still feels that way
Steinway theres businesses going out every year or two rent is high there too
Nice video
celestial city!
Saw my house
Keep the gentrification going higher. I need more rent. Build skyscrapers on 31st and 21ave. Raise taxes like crazy and make sure you pass that legislation bill where gifted houses to sons and daughters are charged up to 100k on taxes. Raise the death tax 30%.
no todo lo que brilla es oro.
Astoria park the best place to smoke some weed
That's every street in NYC now. It's part of the decay that hipsters dreamed of and dumb people cherish.
Gentrification knocking on the door, it's gonna come with a recking ball soon.
The dark side of Astoria now is Steinway st btw 28th ave and 25th ave we had 2 deadly shooting in that block last 2 years, lot of fight
That’s cause that area looks like Beirut these days. Nasty hookah bars everywhere. Disgusting.
Ditmars my neighborhood. I miss it. I wonder if Bruno still has his Viper.
Where I grew up! Oh my baby! Plan on moving back very soon.
Bruh Astoria is too expensive houses there go for like a million bucks easy plus too many crazy homeless there now.
"There's no eating places" -.-
The worst part is ...
only the "N" train can get there .
That's the best part or depending where in Astoria, the R train! 🦜
1.2 MIL in SF. Astoria is so cheap.
Im moving here in a week or 2.
So are you still there (2023)?
True
What are the rents like? Can a normal person afford to live there?
No... you must be Abby Normal
No it's very expensive not worth it.
Well good luck with finding a one bedroom for at least $1800. Is that too much?
My Homw
As a life long Astorian - This video did a terrible job in representing all the grupos of people who make up AStoria.
Astoria has become very dangerous in the last couple of years.
Why New York Times has reported for queens that the best location ever and what about in The Bronx anyway or Brooklyn or something like that you know I'm in Queens it's not the biggest popular ever it's still the lowest whatever the problem is that I please have much difficult like bringing like different people like language so I don't know why it is so negativity right now on that location because it is not feel like it is positive so quiz need to wake up and the people that are in that location to bring up different people and how is going to be United with different people including from you or me or anyone else United First different language in Queens
I don't know what people's obsession with melting pots are, not a fan at all.
i take it black people don't live in NYC ????
There are plenty of black people in Astoria. Rappers Nas, Tragedy Ghaddafi , NBA player Ron Artest and many others are from Astoria
james morton
When I grew up in Astoria, we Had Every Color, Religion etc.
WE ALL GOT ALONG !!! NEVER PLAYED THE RACE CARD !! No Need to !!
MY HIGH SCHOOL HAD EVERYTHING (Long Island City HS)
The Greeks took over Astoria
Greeks are gone. Most have fled to college point, Whitestone and Long Island. They still own most of the buildings though, but the Greek feel of the neighborhood is long gone.
@@obabas80 And astoria has become very dangerous in the last couple of years.
If it wasn't for the Greeks, Astoria would be dead boring town! The Greeks built this city!
@@gregchris418Astoria was here before greeks ever stepped foot there and it's named after john jacob astor a german american businessman so there's clearly nothing greek about astoria just because some ethnicity decides to move there all of a sudden it's greek ? Foh with that mindset.
@@ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΣ nothing Greek about Astoria? Really? I guess you didn't watch the video, just read the comments. Btw, That's a very ignorant comment to make, and you call yourself elinas, what a joke! Guess what vlaho, B4 astor there were Indians.
Don't agree with this video, gentrification ruined another great middle class neighborhood. My family was forced to move out after rent hikes and i wound up in jersey. I was born and raised in the good astoria going to Ps84 and Is141 and playing rec baseball at ICYP. The new astoria is over priced and will be the next Williamsburg.
Bom dia gatas
Nice but Jackson Heights is better
Lol, yeah right.
I don’t like the queens at all . It’s not queens it’s Beijing + Bangladesh don’t expect to feel in America there . I personally don’t like it very depressing area
America is a melting pot. If there's many different cultures and races together getting along and living in an area, that's about as American as you can get. thts the america im proud of.
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