1. People From Queens All Secretly (Or Not So Secretly) Are Mets Fans At Heart
Queensites may pretend to root for Yankees since that's the more socially acceptable fandom, but everyone secretly knows all the words to "Meet the Mets" and has at least one Mr Met bobble head stashed away somewhere.
2. Queensites Are Bridge And Tunnel-Lite
Queens is an outer borough, after all, and thus destined to be looked down on by snooty Manhattan and even jumped-up too-big-for-its-britches Brooklyn. At least Queens isn't way out there in Staten Island-land, though...or, God forbid, New Jersey.
3. People From Queens Are All Working Stiffs
From Archie Bunker to the “King of Queens” to “Ugly Betty” TV sitcoms love to portray Queens as the home of average, everyday blue collar workers just trying to make a living. And really, it’s basically true.
Most Queens residents are employed in the utilities, trade and transportation industries, many of them working for the borough’s two big airports: La Guardia and JFK International. It takes a lot of scrimping and saving (or a really big mortgage) to be able to afford a home like one in either the Bunkers' old Glendale neighborhood or the Heffernans' Rego Park neighborhood, since these average over half a mil.
Ugly Betty’s Jackson Heights apartment on the other hand is a bit more affordable, rent prices around there average around $1450 per month.
4. Folks In Queens Keep The American Dream Alive And Well
And it takes the form of more than a million hard working immigrants, nearly half the city's population. Bangladeshi cab drivers, Korean grocers, Serbian plumbers… All these new Americans help keep Queens' economy rolling right along.
5. Queensites Are All Multilingual—Especially When It Comes To Menus
Sure, everyone knows that Jackson Heights is where you go to get tandoori chicken and naan, or finger licking Peruvian food at Urubamba, and that the biggest, best Greek diners are all in Astoria, and that the restaurants in Flushing's Chinatown surpass those of Manhattan's.
But did you know that Rego Park is the go-to spot for the city's best Bukharian cuisine? Do you even have a clue what that is? Well, If you're from Queens, then of course you do. And if you're not, Bukharian food is Jewish by way of Uzbekistan.
And Rego Park's got not one, but several restaurants with this very specialized specialty: Cheburechnaya, Shalom and Restaurant Salute, even Tandoori Bukharian Bakery. I guarantee you've never tasted better lepeshka than theirs!
6. Queens Is Where Guidos And Guidettes Stand Tall And Proud (As Does Their Hair)
Even New York state senator Diane Savino proudly admits to having been a Guidette back in the day.
It's an Italian pride thing. One of the first ethnic groups to emigrate to Queens en masse was the Italians, whose sons and daughters developed their own unique style some 50 plus years before the “Jersey Shore” introduced the rest of the country to this particular brand of.. umm...style?
7. Queensites Are Death Defying Pedestrians
Once you've crossed Queens Boulevard, aka the Boulevard of Death, there's nothing on earth that can scare you. Except maybe the signs the city puts up at each intersection where a pedestrian's been killed—and this treacherous thoroughfare claims about 10 lives per year.
8. In Queens Everyone Stands "On Line" Rather Than "In Line"
And they do so with characteristic New Yorker patience and politeness. Ahem.
It’s just one of those regional dialect quirks that lets you know that youse are dealing with Queensite.
9. In Queens "The Beach" Means Rockaway, Of Course
This (more or less) sun-soaked stretch of sand and surf was immortalized in a Ramones song of the same name.
Chances are Joey, Johnny and Tommy, all Queens boys (and DeeDee, who joined them in high school) may have hitched a ride there a time or two.
10. Queensites Are Movie Stars
From a 1925 silent comedy called “Sally of the Sawdust” to “The Godfather,” “Coming to America” and “Goodfellas,” Queens is quite the happening location for movie shoots. And Queensites are happy to show the camera their good side as extras.
The most recent blockbuster to bring the borough to the big screen is “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.” So when you’re watching ‘ol Spidey fighting crime, those faces looking up at him in awe are Queensites.
And really what better people to be onscreen stand-ins for the audience, than people who are the living embodiment of the American Dream, are deeply multicultural and most importantly were willing to brave the Boulevard of Death to stand on line for the opportunity?
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