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• Finding people who just moved there will be a breeze. Finding people who love it. . .

  Posted by Foresthills72
  on July 3rd, 2007 at 6:33 pm

• Oh no you didn’t!

  Posted by Steve
  on July 3rd, 2007 at 7:22 pm

• Actually, if the reporter from the Times is reading this, please include something on the owners of Housewares World on QB next to Jay Dee bakery. The coolest people in the world. Patient, helpful, and they carry everything. It’s the anti-Home Depot.

  Posted by foresthills72
  on July 3rd, 2007 at 8:34 pm

• Yeah, I second Housewares World as the “most valuable store” in the ‘hood. I frankly never even knew if its existence until my super said I needed to get there pronto to buy a valve for my shower faucet which was leaking ominously. Within 5 minutes, the owner understood my rather uneducated description of what I needed PLUS I was treated to the most hilarious conversation on plumbing I have ever heard. What a neighborhood treasure! I hope that this store never ever falls victim to the Home Depot juggernaut that is looming.

  Posted by bobbyrab
  on July 4th, 2007 at 9:37 am

• Housewares World’s owners, Annette and her husband David, have been in the neighborhood for many years (at least 30). Their store used to be on the north (other) side of Queens Blvd. next door to the 24 hour store, Milk ‘N Stuff.

  I spoke to Annette last week, and she is not sure what they will do after Home Depot opens up.

  Annette is also a great resource if you have some contracting work that needs to be done in your apt/house. She has a handful of contacts that are very good and very reasonably priced.

  I have lived in Rego Park for 28+ years now, and have grown up with the tools, hardware, electronics, etc. that Housewares World sells.

  Posted by Roman
  on July 5th, 2007 at 5:55 pm

• The Rego Park Crescents are on my “short list” of Queens neighborhoods which should be designated as historic districts. A truly beautiful, well-thought out community.

  Posted by Queens Crapper
  on July 6th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

• I actually told the NYT reporter to check out the Crescents. A must-see if you’re visiting Rego Park, I think.

  Posted by Steve
  on July 7th, 2007 at 12:23 am

• Keep the media out of Rego Park!!! Keep it quiet!!! I love my unfashionable Rego Park as it is.

  Posted by CharrdWood
  on July 8th, 2007 at 12:13 am

• Sorry!

  Posted by Steve
  on July 8th, 2007 at 1:32 am

• ‘S’alright, I guess. It’s only a matter of time, I realize that, before the neighborhood changes. But maybe you could direct people to articles detailing the “rebirth” of absolutely dire–sorry, “newly hip”–areas of Brooklyn? Maybe it’s because I still rent…

  Like your site…otherwise! ;| Nah, actually it’s great all ’round. It’s weird, because on the one hand I think all the positives about Queens should be shouted from the rooftops, but on the other, as someone that (of yet) doesn’t actually own property, I’d prefer that Brooklyn got the majority of the buzz pub.

  Posted by CharrdWood
  on July 8th, 2007 at 11:54 pm

• The NY Times Rego Park story is on the web. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07.....2livi.html

  Good job Steve for getting this underrated safe and cheap neighborhood some needed ink.

  Posted by Forest Hills 72
  on July 20th, 2007 at 4:14 pm

• Typical real estate shill piece. Glossy description, but does not describe the true changing character. If it keeps comparing itself as Forest Hill’s bastard cousin, it will always remain Forest Hill’s bastard cousin.

  “….renovating them in European styles, modernizing them and increasing their property values as well as the neighborhood’s value….” says EZ-Sell’s Igor Rafailov

  Translation - out of character high walls and thick balustrades, tan bricks, and liberal use of stainless steel.

  “Some renovated homes there have features like marble balustrades and inlaid brick driveways. ”

  Translation - Lawns? Who the hell needs lawns?

  Posted by Anonymous
  on July 21st, 2007 at 9:22 am

• Right on Anonymous, and along with those gaudy balustrades‘, mini-Berlin walls, and ugly steel doors comes the icing on the cake, ugly plastic awnings! The Times piece labeled this grotesque architecture as Euro style. Obviously this writer has little or no knowledge of classic American or European design, and neither do the builders of these freak houses. Looks to me like most of them got their building experience during the Stalin era, do they build to keep everybody else out or lock themselves in? I have never experienced a more clannish, hostile, insular group of people, in all of my years living in this city. Tan bricks in a dark red brick neighborhood.
  Arrogant, loud, and rude, to my mind describes both the people and buildings that have recently plighted our once cozy, quiet neighborhood. Which all goes to prove that too much pungent ingredients can indeed ruin the soup!

  Posted by GETMEOUTTAHERE
  on November 27th, 2007 at 4:17 pm

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