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Canyousourcethatplz t1_izxn161 wrote

Reply to comment by decelerationkills in What Is New York’s Greenest Borough? Probably Not the One You Think. by CactusBoyScout

I'll never go to Staten Island if I can help it. Lol. I've been to all the others. Queens the least. Manhattan the most.

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CactusBoyScout OP t1_izxpx9n wrote

Staten Island has some things worth seeing/doing.

There's a big Sri Lankan community with a cluster of great restaurants pretty close to the ferry.

Snug Harbor is a really beautiful botanic garden with fun events.

Staten Island is also full of Italians so there's lots of good pizza. I've heard some of the beaches are nice too but I haven't been.

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Weaponized_Puddle t1_izxrlt4 wrote

I’m from Staten Island, trust you’d rather go to Rockaway.

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CactusBoyScout OP t1_izxrqcf wrote

Do you have opinions on the best pizza in Staten Island? Does it hold its own with the rest of the boroughs?

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ctindel t1_izxwl5y wrote

Deninos is great. Starting with the pandemic we would take the kids hiking in the greenbelt (the mount moses hike is great with small kids) and get some deninos pizza after.

If you just want to take the ferry across and grab something, "Maries 2" is great as well.

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Weaponized_Puddle t1_izxspip wrote

Per capita undeniably. The good pizza to population ratio here is so good. There’s only one distinguished pizza place that people will leave the island for, but that’s exclusively for Sicilian so it doesn’t even count.

I’m sure someone can point to a luxury pizza place that cost $30+ a pie that has SI beat in Manhattan or something, but that’s cheating. Our ‘average’ pizza is good pizza in other boroughs.

Also, we have a niche we absolutely dominate in: crunchy thin crust pizza. People will drive all the way to CT to get Pepe’s, but we have them beat.

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decelerationkills t1_izz013l wrote

In my albeit limited experience I’ve had some good ass Italian pastries and cookies from some bakeries on the island. Pizza is def better on average than the other boroughs, though that could be subjective lol.

I think most people who live on Staten Island for the most like to go to Jersey or the rest of the city for their own pleasure.

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decelerationkills t1_izxnw5r wrote

you gotta go at least once my dude!

Not all of Staten Island is bad (despite popular opinion) even if it’s just to enjoy the view from the ferry on a summer afternoon .

I would say for me most to least visited Manhattan Bk queens Bronx Staten Island .

I found that in my experience most if not all people that I know that live on the island want to meet in Jersey or the city further decreasing my opportunities to go there. Whether that is good or bad is subjective lol

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app4that t1_izxszun wrote

A few notes about the exceptional Queens parks, for those who don't know.

Forest Park (in beautiful Forest Hills) has the most 'feels like a giant forest' vibe of perhaps any city park I have visited. The trails are a delight.

Juniper Valley Park, in Middle Village, is often rated as the #1 cleanest park in all the 5 boroughs. It is immaculate, or as close as you can get to that in NYC.

The Gantry is a State Park in Astoria and it is small but very lovely with awesome views of Manhattan that you just can't get in, well Manhattan, for obvious reasons.

There are many more worthy of discovery, some wild and natural like Baisley Pond, some are actually really nice, uncrowded beaches with huge clean boardwalks to bike on or stroll, like Rockaway, and some are notable for everything you can do there (Flushing Meadows with loads of sights in and around it, including the best kept secret botanical garden, known as the Queens Botanical Garden, which charges a modest admission, but is totally worth a visit, and then there is Cunningham Park with it's acres of ball fields and open space.

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CactusBoyScout OP t1_izxuag6 wrote

Forest Park also has that disused train line that they’re thinking of reactivating or turning into another High Line.

You can walk along the old tracks and even find the old station platforms if you go far enough.

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decelerationkills t1_izxuuxw wrote

Nice yo!! Thank you for organizing all that, hopefully this will encourage others to go to the parks that we do have and just go check out other boroughs and see what’s up!

Make good use of those parks people! And be a good neighbor, clean up after yourself!!

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CactusBoyScout OP t1_izxv8od wrote

One of my favorite things to do when I’m bored in NY and don’t want to spend any money is just pick a city park I’ve never visited and go check it out. They’re all pretty unique.

My deep cut pick: Marine Park in Brooklyn.

It’s like a beautiful wetland sanctuary with some nice recreation facilities. I think they redid everything recently too because it used to have a pretty bad reputation for abandoned junk being dumped there.

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Wowzlul t1_izyqu4z wrote

> You can walk along the old tracks and even find the old station platforms if you go far enough.

I have seent the Richmond Hill station platform with mah own two eyes, and it is glorious.

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CactusBoyScout OP t1_izyszce wrote

Last time I went there, some young guy in a NYC Parks uniform popped out and I thought I was busted.

But he was like “Oh you’re good. I’m just walking the tracks too and wore this old uniform in case I got caught.”

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Wowzlul t1_izyttfs wrote

I have so many good pics of the RBB infrastructure with new growth twisting it apart. There's also that awesome graffiti on the Richmond Hill platform you can only see from the air.

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Douglaston_prop t1_izxrpim wrote

The borough of parks, I spent some time exploring them during the covid lockdowns. Some pretty nice trails there.

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