Queens is the best food borough and Manhattan knows it. You can get on the 7 at Grand Central and eat your way across half the planet without ever buying a plane ticket, and in between there's a giant scale model of the entire city that hits harder than it has any right to.
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Queens neighborhood guides
Astoria
Greek tavernas, Steinway Street, the Moving Image museum and Astoria Park.
Long Island City
MoMA PS1, the Pepsi-Cola sign and the skyline from Gantry Plaza.
Jackson Heights
Momos, arepas and the best food walk under the 7.
Flushing
Basement food halls, noodles and the Unisphere.
Best munchies in Queens
Here's the easy day: start in Flushing and ride the 7 back toward Manhattan, getting off whenever you feel like it. Noodles and soup dumplings at Main Street, momos and arepas at Roosevelt Ave, then whatever Woodside and Sunnyside throw at you on the way. If you started in Astoria, do 30th Ave for bakeries and Steinway Street for grills. The citywide map is in NYC munchies.
Things to do in Queens high
The Panorama at the Queens Museum is the one everyone should see baked: the whole city in miniature, with the lights going from day to night. Flushing Meadows has the Unisphere out front. The Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria has exhibits and a real theater. MoMA PS1 is weird art in an old school. The Noguchi Museum is the quietest room in the borough. For the water, the Roosevelt Island Tram is a short hop from Queens by F train, and the view is ridiculous. Full list in things to do high in NYC.
The Rockaways
Yes, Queens has a beach, and the A train goes there, if you have the patience. City beaches are smoke-free. Jacob Riis and Fort Tilden are national park land in Gateway, where federal rules apply and weed is not allowed at all, so leave it home for that trip. Details in where you can sesh in NYC.
Where you can sesh in Queens
Astoria Park, Hunters Point South and Flushing Meadows are city parks, so they're smoke-free. Gantry Plaza is a state park with its own rules, so read the signs. Home first is still the easy answer. It's all in where you can sesh in NYC.
