First Poll of 2016!

I haven't done one of these in a while. Here's a food one. I'll have a non-food one posted up soon...

New Poll

I haven't done a poll in a long time. Here's a timely one. I am thinking we'll probably find out about this in the next week or two, so while we're all guessing:

End of the Year Poll - Part 2

New Poll: September 11th Museum

End of Year Open Poll

What is your favorite new business (restaurants, bars, stores, etc.) in Forest Hills?

New Poll: Summer Movie Special (Part 1)

Poll Results

Here are the results so far from the August 14th poll that asked: "What do you dislike most about living in Forest Hills?"

216 people responded

1. The Supermarkets (47 votes)
2. Not enough fun stuff to do (45 votes)
3. Not enough good restaurants (40)
4. Queens Blvd. (32)
5. Not enough good take-out places (24)
6. The Shopping (14)
7. Other (14)

Hmmm, looking these over it occurred to me that a Whole Foods where the stalled construction site is on the north side of Queens Blvd. near something called a "Key Food" would solve most of these complaints, wouldn't it? Are you reading this Mr. Whole Foods? This is just a small, rinky dink blog so you can assume there's like another 10,000 non-voters living in Forest Hills for every vote in my poll. You do the math!

And here are the write-in responses:

Other Answers
Total
14
the new homes being built
Basement flooding
the projected Windsor II
the narrow sidewalks on Austin St.
Rude people who take over the entire sidewalk
Rude residents
lots of grumpy people
Nothing
need more daycare centers
not enough fitness center options
Parking
No Chipotles
Not enough coffee shops or cafes for writerss

I had to just remove one racist answer - not bad!! Keep it up guys!

New Poll

It's a muggy, cloudy day, and they even expect big thunderstorms! Just the type of day to take out all of your frustrations on a new poll! Hooray! And a new poll with a decidedly uncharacteristically negative tone to it! All you poo-pooers will just love it! Enjoy!

New Poll: Anthony Weiner's Future

More Poll Results

Some more "write-in" results from the recent poll:
a secondhand book store or a thrift shop
Butcher
Upscale Gym
Shake Shack, GOOD chinese food, GOOD pizza that delivers
Trader Joe's
Whole Foods


Latest Results:

With 193 votes so far:

A place to get quick, high-quality sandwiches and salads 25 12.95%
A modern, more upscale take on a diner 36 18.65%
Chipotle 34 17.62%
An independent coffee place 34 17.62%
All of these 39 20.21%
Other: 25 12.95%

Poll Results So Far

Sunday's Edge of the City Poll asked "What would you like to see open here?" and listed 5 choices:

• An independent coffee place
• Chipotle
• A place to get quick, high-quality sandwiches and salads
• A modern, more upscale take on a diner
• All of these

As of this 8:52 this morning, 177 people had voted and here are the results:

All of these was in the lead with 39 votes.

A modern, more upscale take on a diner was second with 35 votes

Chipotle and an indie coffee place both had 31

and the quick sandwich/salad place trailed with 23 votes.

And here are the "write-in" choices so far, what people wrote in for "other":

• butcher 
• A good Indian restaurant
• High End Gentlemen's Strip Club ' "Scores Queens"
• Whole Foods
• Sushi or Teriyaki Fast Food
• Chic wine bar
• More tasteful options in general. Austin Street should be much nicer.
• Higher quality restaurants in general
• taco bell
• Shake and shak
• Factories
• Trader Joe's
• A butcher
• A good seafood restaurant
• Korean BBQ
• French bistro
• Hummus Place or the like

If you haven't yet voted, the poll is still open here.

New Poll

I haven't had a poll in a while, so here ya go:

New Poll

It's been a rather slow and dreary start to 2012 here in Forest Hills, hasn't it? Nothing new has opened in a while. But, there certainly is a lot in the works, as you can see by my poll below. If none of these gets you excited, well, then there are always the new elevators in our subway station.

But seriously, if you are feeling a little blue thanks to the miserable, basically snowless winter we've been having, well here are a few things you can do around the neighborhood to cheer yourself up:

• Visit Emily's Sugar Rush on Austin. Have you been to our neighborhood candy story lately? This place is awesome. It is now busting at the seams with stuff. It has grown into a really cool store. (They even now have Fruit Stripe Gum, my suggestion from way back thank you very much.)
• Grab a coffee and a pastry at La Boulangerie. Just soaking up the atmosphere at this adorable new place can get you in a great mood.
• Go Greek at Agora. I just had their New England clam chowder the other night. Quite good if I must say so myself.
• Grab a brownie at Brownies & Cream. Another new place on Austin with some delicious treats.
• Oh, and just wait a week. I hear that by this time next week we might actually have a real winter snow on our hands. I know, how many times have you heard that this winter. But predictions have been all along for a major change to a snowier, wintry pattern in February. So all you snow lovers, get ready. :)

A Little Holiday Poll

We haven't done a poll since the very popular tennis stadium one, so how about a holiday-themed question this time? Here ya go...

Tennis Stadium Poll Results

Well, it looks like the Stadium Arts Alliance's plan to renovate the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, using it for major tennis matches, concerts, art exhibits and ice hockey, is proving the most popular choice as to what to do with the iconic landmark.

Here are the results of our latest poll so far.

1. Ice skating during the winter and music events during the warm weather - 42 
2. A new Farmer's Market - 30 
3. Tennis again, or other sporting events - 16 
4. Demolish it to make room for new condos - 7 
5. A tennis museum - 5 
6. Other - 3 
7. A hotel - 2

Among the "Other" write-in choices were the rather creative: Bodega, Jail and Helipad. :)

You can still vote in the "Polls" section of the blog if you haven't already.

New Poll: The Forest Hills Tennis Stadium

Dispersing Occupy Wall Street?

An interesting development today as the City says the protesters will no longer be allowed to use tents, sleeping bags or other equipment in the park where they have been encamped up until now. I don't see how they are going to be able to maintain their 24 hour vigil there without such equipment. I didn't know that the park is privately-owned, which is why these regulations can be enforced. So, it looks like they may have to move to a public location... maybe Battery Park?

Anyway, here's a story with all the info about this: NYC Protesters Wary of Park Cleanup Plan

And here's a new poll:

Hurricane Irene Poll

This Week's Poll

This Week's Poll

First, let's take a look at the results from our last poll, which was posted back on April 5th.

45 people voted in the poll which asked where your doctors are located...

The winner, probably as expected given the reputation of doctors there, was Manhattan, with 40% of the vote (18 votes)

Coming in second were people who said they went to doctors in both Queens and Manhattan, with 26.6% of the vote (12 votes)

Followed by just Queens, with 24.4% (11 votes)

Long Island 6.6%, with 3 votes

and Another NYC Borough 2.2%, with just 1 vote


Now on to this week's poll: