Tag Archives: Sunnyside Gardens

#MonthlyPicks | What Does a Theater Expert Love about Queens?

María Cristina Fusté is the Executive Artistic Director and co-founder of Boundless Theatre Company, which produces diverse and thought-provoking forms of storytelling. (This April, Boundless is co-producing “Domino Effect” by Marco Antonio Rodríguez.) The native of Puerto Rico currently lives in Sunnyside. Here’s what she loves about her northern home. Great Eats Sweet Avenue is…

#InTheLoop | Celebrate 100 Years of Sunnyside Gardens History in — Where Else? — Sunnyside Gardens on Oct. 12

In 1924, Calvin Coolidge was president, a silent film called “The Sea Hawk” was the biggest grossing movie in the U.S., and a subway ride cost five cents. In that same year, Colonial Court, the first residential section of Sunnyside Gardens, was completed. Celebrate this 100th anniversary with historians, architects, writers, residents, and preservationists at…