NY Magazine Deems Sunnyside Third Most Livable Place in the City
1) Park Slope
2) Lower East Side
3) Sunnyside
Sunnyside is a hidden gem if there ever was one—though its communities of Armenians, Romanians, Indians, Bangladeshis, Chinese, Koreans, Colombians, and Ecuadorans have known about its attributes for years.
It’s flat-out cheap (and not just by New York standards): A typical two-bedroom costs $1,300 a month. And that’s in a safe, quiet neighborhood with better-than-average schools that’s just sixteen minutes to Times Square on the 7 train. Although it’s a bit lacking in restaurants and nightlife, it’s a quick livery ride to both Greenpoint and Astoria.
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NY Magazine
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Over 600 guests who paid $25 apiece crowded into the Sunnyside Community
Services Ballroom Tuesday night to sample a wide assortment of food and
drink from 24 tables at ³Taste of Sunnyside 2² the second annual restaurant
festival. Some innovations instituted this year were popular, such as
unlimited bottled water and soda, beer and wine for sale at $3 in addition
to the free beer and wine samples, explicit signage and structure, two
individual tastings lasting one and a half hours each, and free
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The second annual meeting of Sunnyside Shines was held on April 27 at Sidetracks Restaurant on Queens Boulevard. Sunnyside Shines is the embodiment of the Sunnyside Business Improvement District (BID), which runs along both sides of Queens Boulevard from 39th to 50th Streets and Greenpoint Avenue from 42nd to 50th Streets. In two years of existence it has had three executive directors, and the latest, a recent graduate of Rutgers, introduced himself.
