Elote Under The 7 Train, or My New York City Dream

✍️ 🕑 Primarily February 2020 • Series: My Days in New York City • Tags: things to feel nostalgic forgood eatsAirbnbQueensNew York City • Places: Queensboro Plaza, Long Island City Elote Under the 7 Train Knockdown Center Queens Brewery Astoria

View from an elevated train in Astoria (July 2021)
View from an elevated train in Astoria (July 2021)

I started writing this contemporaneously, i.e., while I was crashing in weird airbnb’s in Queens in early 2020. In a time when I didn’t yet wish to share that I was planning to leave New York City. In a time when I was loving it more and more.

It has since been revised for clarity, readability, and parenthetical asides about death and tragedies. Y’know, the stuff of our present historic moment.

So, this then, is the New York City that I love…