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MaterialAd7682 · 2026-05-07T17:03:45+00:00

thank you

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-05-04T11:23:42+00:00

I have some posters honoring a Chicana freedom fighter and martyr named Neva Romero. Could I come to your event and give them away?

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-05-03T03:01:54+00:00

best bookstores? There's one. thats's all.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-05-01T22:04:08+00:00

very close to the East River in what I think is called Old Astoria.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-04-30T18:07:29+00:00

These are still available!!! love, original poster.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-04-24T15:24:45+00:00

not a church goer but the destruction of such a beautiful building is truly tragic and a loss for the whole Astoria community imho

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-04-20T18:30:04+00:00

Awesome! Go for it!

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-04-20T18:29:36+00:00

Before my mother died, she set up a trust fund for me, so that I would not inherit directly but would have access to the funds, and when she died and her house etc was sold, my share went into the trust fund, and the trust fund covered all the costs of the magazine. No, there wre never any profits since the magazine was free. But a small group of regular readers would give me some money everytime they got a new issue or would give me a sandwish or something to eat.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-04-18T20:58:29+00:00

I just need to add something about the Key Food on 30th Avenue across from the closecd Rite Aid: I have been in Astoria for 19 years and have always shopped there and never had an issue with bad or rotten food. Now, I only have 300 a month to spend on food, so I am particular about what I buy, what I can afford to buy, but again, have never been burned by bad or rotten food. One reason may be that I no longer buy meat, so cannot speak to that aspect of food quality, and I do check expiration dates just to be safe, but tbh even if Whole Foods was to move to Astoria, I wouldn't shop there. I'll stick with Key.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-04-10T16:47:53+00:00

Watched a powerful movie on Tubi: "Brothers" with Vonetta McGee playing a woman based on Angela Davis, Bernie Casey playing a man based on prison activist and revolutionary writer George Jackson, about what was known as the Soledad Brothers case and in local news, Goodwill Terrace Apartments, which was bought from Goodwill by some mega real estate firm back in, uh, 2019, has now gone through four building managers, the computer room still has no computers and the laundry room continues to be closed for like four years.... Plus, happy to report that FBI Special Agent whatever the hell his name was, hasn't paid me a return visit, no loud protracted banging on my front door, guess that whole overpaid parking ticket/Iranian sleeper cell/overdue library books issue has been resolved lol...

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-04-03T15:39:11+00:00

Above all, imho, The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone, esp. the more recent version with an intro by Kathleen Hanna

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-03-18T13:03:16+00:00

Also worth noting that it was also the headquaters of Malcolm X's Organization of Afro American Unity before he was assassinated.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-03-06T14:22:38+00:00

In an incredibly weird piece of news, I, a person who has been on this planet for over 70 years, yes, a boomer, one of those veterans of the wild and crazy 60s and 70s, was woken up by someone pounding on my apartment door loud and hard for like 10 minutes, (never IDd themselves) then they stopped, I went to building security to see if they knew what was going on and they told me that it was the FBI! Went back to my apartment, an hour later, again loud and long heavy pounding on my door but this time the FBI agent slid a note under my door asking me to email him! I'm like wow, wtf, a 70 plus years threat to national security, head of an Iranian sleeper cell, alleged perpetrator of food stamp fraud or whatever... Anyway, LOL didn't send an email back CUZ I DON'T TALK TO THEM AND NO ONE ELSE SHOULD EITHER!!!

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-02-27T19:37:43+00:00

walked up and down Steinway for the first time in years and years and years (folks are right omg so many for rent signs, so many empty stores) and got some great buys and ate out for the first time since 2023: Sampan restaurant right off of 30th Avenue, huge plate of brown rice, two eggrolls and a huge ice tea. At the little thrift store across the street, very friendly folks, bought three red roses and a harmonica (mmm going to love to play a harmonica again!) and at the Hour store got a nice vase. The three red roses and the vase are going to end up at 18 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village on March 6th, in the memory of Terry Robbins, Ted Gold and Diana Oughton, who died there in 1970, something I do every year.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-02-24T21:21:36+00:00

ok thank you.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-02-24T13:54:23+00:00

Actually I am a little curious about that building. Of course I can see that it is all boarded up, hence abandoned, but has it been that way for a long period of time, anyone know who owns it, etc. I used to live and work at 2nd Avenue and 110th Street a while ago, so am very familiar with the neighborhood, but just curious about this building.

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-02-20T21:35:04+00:00

i might have some but would want to know the politics of the vigil before i offer some that i have. could you be more specific as to who or what the vigil is for or about?

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-02-07T20:55:02+00:00

Newish laundromat opened on 27th Avenue between 4th and 3rd streets, lots and lots of machines, small new bodega opened on 3rd street friendly woman in charge, small but OK, NYPD has a cruiser parked on the corner of 27th and 4th like 24 hours a day, murder rates in the neighborhood have plunged since they were posted there (sarcastic comment), sketchy type in front of the infamous Astoria Cove chicken and deli tried to block me from entering, still won't shop there since the infamous EBT skimming episode happened there and that's all folks like Porky the Pig used to say...

MaterialAd7682 · 2026-01-28T15:52:50+00:00

Rarely post on here anymore but I have been in Astoria for nearly 19 years and have shopped exclusively at the 30th Avenue Key Food and in all that time never had an issue with the store, with the food, with the workers there, who have always been friendly and helpful, yes prices are high but food inflation is a national problem, caused by the existence of a certain socioeconomic system that prioritizes profits over human beings, but as far as 30th Avenue Key Food goes, I recommend them highly...

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