hello everybody. It's February 9th, 2021, 32 degrees Fahrenheit, zero degrees Celsius, in Flushing Meadow Corona Park right now. Following this flock of geese, I guess we'll let the geese tell us where to go today. But today, I plan to walk around Flushing Meadows Corona Park, maybe even go into Corona or Jackson Heights. I think these geese are clearing out from me now. They're not too fond of me following them, so a lot of geese here. [Applause] Let's go chase some of them. Hey, come on. I guess they're not too happy about that. Yo, get back here. All right, it's enough fun with the geese. Pretty treacherous area here with all this snow and wet slush. Car Andrews, I came home from Boston. Love your tours of Boston. I appreciate very much, Car Andrews. All right, now I'm headed across the highway on the overpass. Look, there's even more geese down that way.

looks like the geese also left some more presents for me in the snow. Gotta make sure to avoid that. Well, this is a pretty treacherous ramp here. I'm gonna have to climb uphill on a sheet of ice, so I'm gonna take it really slow. Gosh, better hold on to this railing the whole time. Definitely scary. The city should like clear this out. Feels like it's getting steep right now, and with ice, if I slip and fall, I'm going to be sliding down this whole ramp. Actually, it's clearing up up there, so it's not that bad. Almost slipped there. Well, just one foot. Susan, you think most of the saw was used on Times Square? I think so. All right, I made a pass. Goodness gracious, we got some more here. All right, good, this is shoveled. Look at that car traffic on the Grand Central Parkway. I won't have to deal with that. We've got another ramp over here. Let's see the conditions of... oh boy. All right, I'm getting ready for this.

I could sit on my butt and slide the whole way down, but then there's going to be nothing for me to break, so let's do it the same way coming up. This is arguably more dangerous going down because it's whoa. You know what? I'm uh, I'm not even stepping right now. I'm just letting it take me to where I need to go and just slide along with the ice because it's too uh, dangerous to step right now. I'm sliding, I'm sliding, but I'm holding the railing. Oh, what the heck? What happened? Gosh, this has to be the most dangerous start to an action kid video yet. Geese, ice going up and down this bridge or this ramp. Just gotta take it slow, that's all. Oh gosh [Applause]. It's safer not to step, just slide. Maybe I shouldn't have taken this overpass. I should have found another one. Oh gosh, oh gosh, oh gosh. The left side is not any better. All right, I'm almost done to the bottom.

just not trying to get too overconfident now. I thought that ambush is going to save me, but all right, all right. Oh, gotta fix the camera. I got all messed up. Okay. [Applause] Oh, I made it. I made it. Wow, that is bad. There's someone crossing over right now who's holding on to the railing. He's gonna have just a harder time as me going down this. I just want to see what happens. Definitely a lot different than live streaming midtown Manhattan yesterday. Looks like the area around the parks could use a little bit more shoveling, especially these overpasses. Oh no, I feel bad for this person. All right, the person's coming down now. Let's see what happens. I see him taking his time on the upper right there. You know, it might have been easier. It might have been easier just to get a skateboard and grind on the railing here all the way down. I think he's having second thoughts about it. I don't see him, but I hope he makes him. He mo. He makes

it down or back across over, but I'm going to try to report this to the city if I can. This is really dangerous. It's even dangerous for me to go up there again to help them. I actually see him coming down right now. This squirrel here is laughing at me. I wish I had that rodent's agility to cross over like that easily. But let's see what overpass this is. This is 62nd Avenue and I guess the Grand Central Parkway service road. All right, 62nd Avenue. All right, I see the man right now. He's actually going down sideways with the railing on two feet. That's actually not a bad technique as well. Maybe we'll get to see him coming down. Yeah, right there. But 62nd Avenue overpass definitely needs to be shoveled or salted. My gosh, this is a frequently used bridge too. That guy's just sliding down it, and then there's another person walking up and having a difficult time. But yeah, right now I'm in the neighborhood of Corona, Queens.

Thank you, Anthony Kelly, for five euro. Appreciate it very much. Let's see here, requests, uh, streets and sidewalks, snow and ice on a sidewalk. Okay, winter conditions, snow, ice on sidewalk. That's the one I'm gonna use right now. 62nd Avenue, uh, homework business park. Use the 311 website. No, oh, I gotta use the website to report it. Park maintenance complaints, problem detail. Oh, this is actually an easy, uh, thing to do. Snow or ice, additional details. All right, let's, uh, stop here so I can do this because that definitely needs to be done ASAP. Someone's going to get hurt. 62nd Avenue overpass over Grand Central Parkway. Thank you, R. Stubalad 26, with five pounds. Hi to Action Kit from Dean and Chris in UK. Appreciate it. Central date and time observed today. All right, so 62nd Avenue overpass over Grand Central Park and needs shoveling is very treacherous, and I'm gonna submit it right now. So next, oh man, this form is so hard to find.

fill out flushing meadow park issue is near park entrance. [Music] Oh my gosh, I gotta fill out this I am not a robot thing. Complete and submits. All right, your service request has been submitted successfully. You should receive a confirmation email. Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome. So hopefully, it will get shoveled in time before someone else gets hurt. All right, let me head over this way. [Music] Thank you, Gerald Evans, with five pounds. Gerald of Wills, thank you very much. As you can tell, the sidewalks and the streets in Queens are not as well shoveled as Midtown Manhattan, where I went yesterday. [Music] Toyota Sienna got out of this parking space. It was a little tricky though. Craig's saying shoveling will be a waste of time. Well, they got to do something about it, shoveling, icing it. Anything's better than nothing right now, just leave it in that condition. The biggest culprits in the um, not shoveling their sidewalk category are vacant lots, buildings for lease, and construction.

sites I find that many of those places are not shoveled properly, as well as overpasses like that. I'm walking in the street because it's safer than walking on the sidewalk. There s1 at least throw some salt or kitty litter on the ramp. Well, anything that has some kind of traction, sand. I've seen salt, kitty litter works too, even cardboard will help a lot better. We are going in here underneath the scaffolding. This is Corona, Queens right now, residential building going up next to me. I want to head towards the main part of Corona, Queens. The next one is 108th Street, not too far away from here. Then I can head north. It was kind of worth it because I went back. I saw on Google Maps these are the Queens community houses next to me. Queens community houses [Applause]. In front of me is the management office for this community. This is the Q38 bus, but it doesn't look like it's running. Hopefully, it doesn't have any mechanical.

issues I've noticed. Some buses are ready with mechanical issues. They weren't able to move or they just broke down. There's one passenger on that bus. All right, 108th street and 62nd drive. I'm gonna head north past the Long Island Expressway. There's some new construction going up here. That's pretty neat. Wonder where I put my stylus. I can't find it. All right, I got it. Another hard street to come across coming up right by the Long Island Expressway service road. Sidewalk closed. Please use sidewalk. Leandro saying NYC. If you could scaffold here, you could scaffold anywhere. That's one thing I missed about being in Boston was the lack of tons of scaffolding all over the place. So, and the size of this project is massive. [Music] Me, that person has good athletic skills in order to cross over the streets like that. 108th street and Horace Harding Expressway service road. That's a pretty large pothole there. 108th street and the intersection.

I think I'll be reporting that one later. This is 108th Street and Penrod Street. I think very shortly we're going to see the Lemon Ice King of Corona, Queens. This area shoveled pretty well. It was only the overpass. We've got Waldron Street and 108th Streets and Gazelle Kande saying I'm about to pass by the best empanadas of Queens. Which store would that be? I do know there's some good empanada places around here. I'm gonna wait for the light to change because there's no way I'm gonna get around the snow mound and crossing time. Gazelle saying keep going in the same path and I'll see it. Okay, is there a car coming? Yes, but I do have a walk signal. Thank you, Bruno Mayon with five Brazilian real from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Thank you, Bruno, for the super chat. Westside Avenue, 108th Streets, the Lemon Ice Kings on 52nd Avenue. Am I close by there?

or I might have been in the other direction. I'm not sure. It's too cold to be bringing out my other phone now to look for directions. Here's Vandoran Street, and the Empanadas Cafe. Is this the best empanadas place in Queens? $2.25 for a beef and potato empanada. Their prices are reasonable as well. That's the place, Empanadas Cafe. James saying 50 seconds up ahead. What did I say? Vacant lots, poor at shoveling the sidewalk, but this is a lot better than that overpass. This one's a little more manageable. Leandro Barbosso with 20 Brazilian real. Love walking around you and your commute. Commentary is great. Keep it up. Thank you very much. [Music] What happened with this car? Anyone want a random sofa? It's here in the snow waiting for you. BC asking what my plans are for Lunar New Year. Well, I'm going to spend some time with some friends and family. Maybe I'll go out and explore some few places, but for the most part, I'm going to spend it.

with friends and family. We got a Martens Avenue here, 108 double Chinese restaurants. And here we have Asadero La Fogata restaurant. All right, I think I'm getting towards the area where I recognized a lot more in Corona, Queens. I don't really recognize Corona too much right where the highway is, but the Lemon Ice King of Corona is up ahead, only in another block. Corona Cafe, GL108 Laundromat, Jeffrey saying King of Queen's Lemon Ice. I mean, it would be a good idea to get ice, but not today. It's freezing out. There's a lot of restaurants around here, some Italian restaurants as well. There's a pizza place here I tried, which was pretty good. There it is, Lemon Ice King of Corona. I saw another one get ices over there. Lemon Ice King, two ices. There's the pizzeria I tried, Corona Pizzeria. They're pretty good. We've got a taekwondo store next to an optical store, which, well, this is strange. It's like this

building is hollow, and the optical store is in the back. Jaguar is saying a video store in 2021. I guess they're still around, right? Here's Mariah's deli and grocery and authentic tropical fruits. Lorena's, let's take a look at that. Aha, so Lorena's fruits, they do a lot of fruit-based stuff. Hawaiian dog, organic juices, ensalada de frutas. Oh man, this banana split looks good. Wow, kope the gelato. Oh, look at that. I'm gonna have to come back here in the spring or the summer and try that banana split. And banana splits are meant to be shared. You can't have all that by yourself. That's why they call it a banana split. Let's go this way. [Applause] This is something I didn't notice before. There's a lumber supply place: bricks, blocks, pavers, sand, cement. Oh boy, this is gonna be tricky to walk across. Let's walk on the snowy part. Now it's much easier. It's hard to even make out anything in

the sky because the sky is so white right now. When I was in the park earlier, I heard a few planes go by, but I could not see them. Um, what happened here? All the traffic lights are out. None of these are working. Yeah, this whole intersection, all the lights are out. There's cardboard over here. Oh, I see what the problem is. Look, there's a hanging wire over here and some more over here and another one over here. That's probably part of the problem, but I'm not an electrician, so I don't know if that wire feeds power to those traffic signals. Another wire that's hanging. Ian's saying those weren't power lines, they're just cable for phones and such. Okay, I hope you're right because that's a lot safer than having electrical lines down. I can't really tell the difference between an electrical line and a cable line or a phone line. [Music] So [Music] [Music] So this cycle should be on the street here. Okay, they were just parking their bike on the sidewalk there.

maybe they're delivering something, but this is Corona Avenue and 103rd Street. Got another cable loose. [Music] And yet another one over here. This one's actually swinging around now that I notice it. There's a lot of cables down. Here's another one here. This probably must have just happened due to the recent snow. They probably can't attend to it all the time or quickly enough. Gustavo Sierra saying Sevilla Salon is the best salon of the area, and you've been there. Awesome Sevilla Salon. I just saw it too. I think they were like a block or two back. So local supermarket across the street, Ideal Food Basket. Wonder if I should go this way. It's tricky because some areas it's hard to pass through. There's dead ends in this neighborhood. There's a set of train tracks here that you can only cross in certain areas. I think this way you're able to cross 102nd Street and Nichols Avenue. Oh great, I can't cross under the train tracks here. I see an underpass. Perfect.

some more wires hanging. All right, we got some snow over here, which looks a little bit dangerous across, so I'll try to walk in the street if I can. Let's wait till this car passes. There's a Long Island Railroad train passing, and Roosevelt Avenue is not too far from here. Roosevelt Avenue is where the 7 train runs, 45th Avenue and 102nd Streets. Oh, think I just tilted the gimbal a little bit. [Music] Tricky. This could have been shoveled a little bit better. Back saying, does the sanitation department also take care of the snow? Yeah, for the most part, the sanitation department is responsible for keeping the streets clear, but the sidewalks are the responsibility of the property owners. Sometimes that's the city, and the sanitation department still has to clean it, so that's the way it works here. This is actually a section of Corona, Queens, which I have not explored before. Henry's Deli Market looks like there's some more places up here. Let's cross over and take a look.

mama lupe restaurant dominican restaurant looks pretty good calmira dominicana lunch. They have omelette, mango, American breakfast, pepper steak, rabbo guizado. That looks good. Oh, they've got my fungo too. That looks delicious. All right, another spot on my list. I might have to try and come back. Outdoor seating area. Speaking in which, indoor dining is going to be allowed to resume on Friday at 25% capacity in New York City. Wow, seriously. There's a kung fu tea over here. I guess kung fu tea fits in with any neighborhood. Wasn't sure where that person was gonna go. He had his phone out, looked like he was gonna go left at first, and then he's gonna go right. Rotisserie chicken. Ooh, I can smell it through the window. Coming up, we're gonna have the 7 train subway at 103rd street, Corona Plaza, Neon99 saying my fungal empanadas. Action kid blessing us with this food. Oh [Music]. Definitely. And we got tons of food cars here too.

I'm getting hyped up and getting hungry just smelling all this tamales, esquites, ros con leche. Got a grocery stand here. [Music] Look at this, they're preparing for a Valentine's Day too. I didn't even know all this was going on here. Look at this. [Music] Wow, big shawarma there too, man. There's a lot happening here in Corona Plaza, tortas, tacos. Sorry, I gotta keep the music on 'cause this music being played right now, but look at this. [Music] Wow, I had them before, they're good. I remember them, they were across the street though, neon 99, 4.99. All this food making me hungry, have an empanada on you. Thank you, neon 99. Wow, this keeps going and going. [Music] I think I could turn the music off now. The area right on the Roseville Avenue is always fun, tons of culture here, tons of great food. Another taco truck, I didn't know all that was going on right next to the

sidewalk there surface [Music] Diane's saying this makes me miss all the summer festivals. It does. As usual, Roosevelt Avenue is full of traffic. Good luck driving underneath here, right? [Music] Now we're going saying it's a poorly designed avenue. I have to agree with you on that. Should have been designed a lot more pedestrian-friendly and with safer lanes. Right now, this is just all bunched up. Look at the size of this snow pile. That's going to take a while to melt. This place is for sale. You have to deal with the subway noise, though, as you can tell right here. Oh, look at this. There's a construction site here, but the sidewalk is shoveled. Props to this construction company. A lot of times, I don't see shoveled sidewalks where there's construction sites. Mike Angel at 499. Hope you had fun in Boston, kid. Glad to see your poem for now. Thank you, Mike Angel. Appreciate it very much. Here's 108th Street.

grand opening open for takeout. Beato, look at this, there's a long line with something here, Blink Fitness. Wow [Music]. Are all these people headed to the gym? No way, no way. This is the longest line I've seen for anything in a while. I think this is new, this scaffolding. I haven't really seen the scene before, at least from what I remember walking Roosevelt Avenue. Corrupt his soul. Thank you so much for the 99 cents. I have not seen this in a long time. When did this go up top? I think I'm going to take the 7 train now [Music]. All right, tricky part is getting my MetroCard out. So, all right, let's go to Flushing. Let's wait for these people to get out first. There it is, all right, 7 train coming up. Also, I love this station, by the way. You have the express tracks above the local tracks. There's an express 7 coming now. You can see what I mean, five minutes for the next string. Mike Angel asking how much do I spend a

month for a metrocard. Um, I usually get the 30-day unlimited metrocard, which is 127. But this week, I only got the seven-day metro card, which was 33. Because I am going to be traveling next week, I hope my internet service doesn't cut out in the tunnel underneath Flushing, Queens. Next train is coming in four minutes. The ABX girl asked me if Wi-Fi works on the MTA yet. Only on the platforms, not in between stations and the tunnels. Chien Johnson, where am I going next week, or is it a surprise? It will be a surprise unless you're a member or a Patreon supporter. I tip them off where I'll be going, but you will find out, and I think a lot of people are gonna like it. Mr. I still hear the music from the street level coming up. Grain Scullion with four pounds 99 in the time where we can't travel. It's nice to live vicariously through your videos. Sending love and well wishes from Ireland. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.

It's taking a while for this train to come. Felt longer than five minutes, Nicole. So glad I got a trip in Boston with my family. Also so glad I'm back home. Thanking Nicole only a minute now. [Music] I got a question from Amanda Coleman. If he only needs to use the train for one time, do you still have to bypass or do you pay for that one ride? There's a pay-per-ride option also, two dollars and seventy-five cents. Corrupt this soul. Thank you for the 99 cents. All right, the train's not super crowded. Wow, look at that, two trains, express and local. That's neat. This is a crushing Main Street-bound 7 local train. The next stop is Let's Willits Point. Stand clear of the closing doors, please. So now we get to look outside 111 streets. Actually, the other way might look better because we can look down. Let's go that way. Thank you for Taffle with the five loonies. There's the Grand Central Parkway. City feels the other way.

there it is. [Music] I think we're slowing up now because we need to let the express train leave the station before we can go in. This is Mets Village Point. Transfer is available from the Q48 bus to LaGuardia Airport. This station used to be called Mets Shea Stadium, but now it's Mets Willis Point Main Street. Stand clear of the closing doors, please. The LIRR machine shed is still called Shea Stadium. Wow, that's amazing. I didn't know that. I have to look at that. That might be cool. The tracks are all snowing. All right, let's go to the other side. Let's see if we can find that public waterfront, which I recorded about two, three weeks ago. That was useless because it led to nowhere. If anyone remembers that video, we could probably see it somewhere. Let's see. Let's pass this. This is the Van Wyck Expressway coming up. Ah, here it is. That's the public waterfront that leads to a dead end, but once that's finished, it's going to

connect to Northern Boulevard, but right now it's pretty useless. Ian Gardner, thanks for showing that you had no idea was there. Yeah, it was a really interesting discovery. It's actually one of my moderators who posted a video about it, Tech Explorer NYC, and I had to discover it for myself. Just a quick heads-up, folks, I might lose service in here in this tunnel. We are going underground, and there's not much service here. There's nothing to see now. You could have done your taxes done by this time tomorrow. Matt is asking how do I like the Boston Tea compared to the New York subway. I mean, I thought the tea was pretty efficient. The only thing I didn't like about the tea was that it didn't really go to all the places I wanted it to go. It wasn't as extensive as the subway, but I did like the fact that it was very clean. It ran quite frequently from what I could tell, and there was internet service in between the tunnels, which was just mind-blowing to me.

I also like the fact that it had light rail and heavy rail. The underground bus was kind of neat but not my preferred method of transportation. All right, I might lose service here. All right, we're pulling into the station now. The bookish horse will say not if I was in Boston. At least this subway tunnel segment is really short. This is the last stop on this train, everyone. Please lead the train. Thank you for riding with MTA New York City Transit. Robin's saying the MTA was supposed to wire all the subway stations and the tunnels, but they didn't. And now we're stuck with having service only at the platforms and at the elevated sections. But we are going to Main Street right now and see what's happening and flushing since I left. Also, it's curious to come here because Chinese New Year is on Friday, and maybe we could see some preparations for that coming up Main Street in Roseville Avenue. I don't really see too many decorations up. I don't see any, just a lot of people and a lot of

traffic as usual here. Maybe I'll head towards the library. That's always a hot area. This sand here always has a lot of stuff for sale for Chinese New Year during that time. I don't know if this is gonna be copyrighted. Now I did contact someone I know who is part of a lion dance group. They are going to have some lion dance performances in the Chinatowns, but it's going to be reduced because of COVID restrictions and people are afraid of getting sick. So there won't be as many out as they were last year, which is understandable. I think there'll be some smaller celebrations around the city though. Ian Garner asking if there's a parade at all. I was looking at the website and I think most of the festivities they want to postpone until the spring, but there's no firecrackers this year. I always look forward to that firecracker performance. That was close. Gosh, I'm walking here. I had the walk signal and he's still trying to turn.

meanwhile, let the other car go because I didn't want to get hit, but I almost got hit by the car behind it in the process. All right, what flushing library still has the Christmas tree up? Why? It's February. It's been two months already, and they still have this up. Well, uh, I guess it's good for the birds. I hear the birds in the tree. Oh well, I think, uh, right now is a time for me to end this live stream because I'd like to get something to eat here in Flushing, as well as check the neighborhood out. But anyway, if you enjoy this live stream and the Christmas tree in February, be sure to smash the like button for me, subscribe for some more videos and live streams like these, and I will see you next time. Bye-bye.

NYC LIVE Exploring Corona & Flushing, Queens (February 9, 2021)

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