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Saturday, September 4. 2010

No fair looking for clues. Answer below the fold.

You guessed right. Roosevelt Ave and Northern Blvd in Flushing, Queens, NYC. Miles of Korean, and just a little Chinese. Lots of Americans live there whose lives I could not understand. Plenty of Korean Gospel Churches. Manhattan is just one bit of New York City. You could spend a lifetime discovering this city.

We took the back roads to the tennis center this morning.

Then you're under the El, approaching the brand-new Shea Stadium which some people insist on calling Citi Field. The giant Flushing Meadow Park, the site of the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs and the wonderful US Tennis Center is just a stone's throw away from Shea.

Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 19:01 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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My guess was L.A.

#1 Rob on 2010-09-05 00:43 (Reply)

NYC is on the light pole so that was my guess.

#2 Pat on 2010-09-05 08:46 (Reply)

I was thinking Dorchester.

#3 forest on 2010-09-05 09:01 (Reply)

I suppose I could spend lifetime exploring Flushing, NY, but there are other things I'd much rather do. It really doesn't look that appealing.

#4 D on 2010-09-05 12:52 (Reply)

It's no more appealing than LA. That's the point. But if 2.2 million Americans chose to live in Queens, how bad can it be?

NewYorkophiles make a study of all the details of all the boroughs. I think it's cool. There's a book in that.

#4.1 bd on 2010-09-05 13:43 (Reply)

Saying that it's not fair to look for clues is tantamount to saying that it's not fair to look at the picture at all.

The lamp post in the above-the-fold pic has a sign that says "NYC" on it. That kinda narrows things down a bit.

#5 John on 2010-09-06 08:10 (Reply)

That's what I meant. It was an impossible requirement.

#5.1 Bird Dog on 2010-09-06 14:50 (Reply)

I grew up there in the 50's and 60's when it was a mostly working class Irish/Italian Catholic and Jewish neignorhood. Typical of much of New York, a new wave of immigration changes a neighborhood. I must say however that the Main Street area is much dirtier now.

#6 Richard on 2010-09-06 09:12 (Reply)

I figured a Chinatown somewhere in the U.S.
But if you look at that lamppost at the top of the banner it says "NYC".

#7 lordsomber (Link) on 2010-09-07 16:03 (Reply)

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