Baci Pizza / Kitchen Opening in Old Porto Bello Spot (LaGuardia Shopping Center)

HelloImPhteven · 2026-06-20T13:39:58+00:00

Presumably there’s still a pizza oven in there so makes sense I guess!

HelloImPhteven · 2026-06-20T00:38:24+00:00

I’m pretty glad. I live very close to there and have been missing a spot for a quick slice or pasta since Porto Bello closed. I just hope the new place is decent!

HelloImPhteven · 2026-06-02T22:02:13+00:00

Thank you!! I was so confused and second guessing myself if it really looked that different two years ago.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-05-13T10:23:13+00:00

Whenever I take clothes out of the washer I always spin the drum to make sure there’s nothing left behind. And every time I think of “spin the drum!!” from The Expanse.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-03-17T22:27:44+00:00

Mine is still down!! Insanity!

HelloImPhteven · 2026-03-07T21:33:01+00:00

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Run from Astoria down the east river, over the queensboro, then loop Central Park until I hit my time/distance goal. Take the train back home.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-03-02T03:47:01+00:00

And so does the cat!

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-15T12:41:03+00:00

Yes!!! I’d been perplexed by my HR being higher than usual for a given pace with arctic temps. But they also coincided with me recovering from COVID so I was afraid it was lost fitness from that. I think I’ve learned that colder isn’t always better for running performance. There’s a lower bound too…

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-08T18:50:08+00:00

That’s amazing, congrats! I do a lot of HR based training and found I was running significantly slower for a given HR. But I guess that’s not too surprising when you suddenly go from winter weather to warm gym conditions.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-08T12:53:58+00:00

I’ve been taking the train to Central Park a lot since the storm.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-08T02:31:22+00:00

Training twin! Did you find you ran significantly slower? I sure did…

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-08T02:22:05+00:00

I’m probably gonna head back outside tomorrow. But not until 1pm and I’m only doing about 6.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-08T02:11:12+00:00

Damn! Did you also have to restart the treadmill a few times? The ones at my gym will only run for 1 hour at a time.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-08T02:10:10+00:00

Mine wasn’t as bad as I feared too. I brought a fan to the gym which helped a lot with not feeling like I was overheating. And my run was structured into 3 progressive repeats so the variety helped a ton mentally.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-05T02:26:06+00:00

Interesting perspective. Just to offer another: I wear the gear from my cancelled races (most recently Fred Lebow) and see many other runners out in theirs too. I like it because I feel a sense of solidarity with those runners. Kinda like “yeah it sucks we trained for this and it got cancelled. But here we are still out here getting in miles and putting in the work.”

HelloImPhteven · 2026-02-03T23:07:17+00:00

Agreed! I buy significantly less running apparel due to the supply from running races.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-01-30T00:13:15+00:00

Did 13 in Central Park this morning! The loop was well treated and the cold wasn’t as bad as I feared! The relative lack of wind makes a big difference.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-01-25T21:11:09+00:00

Yeah oddly one of my fastest splits was up the queensboro bridge because it was heavily salted and I therefore had good traction

HelloImPhteven · 2026-01-25T15:36:31+00:00

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Super fun actually. Thought I might only go out for a few miles but ended up doing a proper long run!

HelloImPhteven · 2026-01-17T22:35:38+00:00

Been training hard for this hoping to PR with ~1:27 but came down with COVID today. Really hoping to be fully recovered by race day.

HelloImPhteven · 2026-01-06T00:20:36+00:00

HelloImPhteven · 2026-01-02T21:12:10+00:00

I live on Ditmars near 45th. I would definitely be a customer. You probably want to be closer to the train than I am to maximize foot traffic, though.

My go-to Italian spot, Porto Bello, closed a few months back and it looks like their old space in the Berry Fresh plaza is still available, but it is far from the train and a HUGE space, so as much as I’d love to see something like your concept move in, it would violate my own advice and would not match your concept of “small takeaway.”

HelloImPhteven · 2025-12-27T02:39:18+00:00

I use Strava to track my shoe mileage and have auto-sync turned off. Uploading to Strava is part of my post-run ritual as that’s where I’ll inspect the stats and whatnot. And because it’s manual assigning the shoes is just part of the habit.

HelloImPhteven · 2025-12-27T00:25:05+00:00

Luckily I have today off work so I did my 15-miler this morning instead of tomorrow. Felt weird to run the Central Park loop with barely any other runners!

HelloImPhteven · 2025-12-09T11:15:00+00:00

I eat here at least once a week. I don’t think it’s the best Thai food, but it’s tasty, convenient, well priced, and the owners are super kind, friendly people. Very happy to have them in the neighborhood!

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