Category Archives: Monthly Picks

Good Eats: At the intersection of Corona Avenue and Junction Boulevard in Corona—only steps away from the Elmhurst border—is an Italian restaurant housed inside the borough’s answer to the Flatiron building. Il Triangolo boasts some of the best Italian cuisine I have ever eaten… scratch that… some of the best food of any style I have ever…

Good Eats I love to travel and explore new-to-me places via food, and Queens has limitless opportunities to do so. I’ve lived in Jackson Heights for more than 13 years now, including through the whole pandemic thus far, and it just hasn’t gotten old to me. Particularly this past year-and-a-half when we’ve been largely grounded,…

Good Eats Momo Crave is great if you are…well…craving Nepalese dumplings, known as “momos.” This cozy-chic Woodside café offers a wide range of dishes. Of course, they serve traditional Himalayan cuisine, such as steamed momos stuffed with your choice of meat or vegetables, but they also specialize in fusion. The menu include such items as…

Queens Night Market‘s Sharon Medina is repping Forest Hills, but she’s also lived in Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, and Woodside. Here’s why she loves the borough and her #MonthlyPicks. “When I was a teenager, I wanted nothing more than to leave Queens and get out and see the world beyond New York. I’ve lived in Seattle…

BY QEDC IT’S IN QUEENS Tremendous art is being created at the graveyard. Four students from South Ozone Park’s Epic High School South are working with sculptor Samantha Newman at Maple Grove Cemetery these days. Newman is the artist-in-residence at the Kew Gardens resting place, and the interns – Dana Gervais, Jackeline Mejia, Giselle Cartagena, MaKayla…

As July is Disability Pride Month, the obvious choice is Lakshmee Lachhman-Persad. The digital marketer has a wheelchair-using sister, Annie Lachhman, who was born with cerebral palsy. The Guyana-born siblings founded and run the Accessible Travel NYC website, a great source for planning, carrying out, and enjoying tourism in the Big Apple, thanks to their…

Laura Altimari works in public relations and marketing through her company Fine Tastes LLC. She also partners with KMc Hospitality in the food-and-beverage commercial real estate leasing-and-sales division. The ever-active Richmond Hill High School graduate, who holds degrees from Nassau Community College and The International Culinary Center (f/k/a The French Culinary Institute), specializes in the…

Sunnyside resident Quinn O’Sullivan is a production director at Woodside-based Spaeth Design, which creates Holiday window displays for such retailers as Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Tiffany & Co. Here’s what he loves about the World’s Most Delicious Borough. Great Eats Dawa’s in Woodside is one of my favorites. The menu is…

Long-time Jackson Heights resident Alfonso Quiroz has worked at Con Edison for 16 years. The Democratic District Leader in the 39th Assembly District is also on Queens Theatre’s board of trustees. Here are some things he loves about the world’s most delicious borough. Great Eats In Queens, there’s no shortage of excellent dining spots, but…

Epicenter-NYC began as a newsletter to navigate Covid in 2020 and quickly grew into a multi-platform media outlet. Recently, the entity won a $250,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to create a community center for art, culture, education, and journalism with a podcast studio and video creator lab in Queens. Now it hits the Big…