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That's pretty much the standard result... I forgot what the rule is for not including toilet seats with toilets or buses for bus stops.
Yup, there is one in Queens too... it was originally named Hallet's Cove, but was renamed "Astoria" in a bid to get Jacob Astor to invest in its development... it's also the home of Kaufman Astoria Studios, where parts of a lot of well known movies were filmed... The Wiz, Carlito's Way, Arthur, The Money Pit, Brighton Beach Memoirs, MIB 3, Fletch Lives, Spider-Man 3, Moonstruck, Scent of a Woman... and TV shows like the Cosby Show, Sesame Street and Orange is the new Black... It's also the home of Steinway Pianos and the Hellsgate bridge which the Sidney Harbor Bridge was modeled after.
I grew up in Long Island City, which borders it... Astoria was the "nice side of town", L.I.C. was where you went to get robbed by giant rats with crowbars.
Fun Fact: The origins of Steinway Pianos are in the town where I was born, Braunschweig (aka Brunswick for those from Britain or the former colonies) and until a couple years ago they still produced pianos there.
Fun Fact 2: my most dear stories about came from The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, or rather from the stories about Fat Freddie's Cat, who often had battles with the roaches in the Freak's flat. Especially with those of the species Blattella germanica or German Cockroach...
...I still have several of those comics.
Oh yes, though I preferred the stories with Kommander Cockroah and his Roach Reich overall, the one in which King Kockroach discoved that the poison Fat Freddy was laying out was tasty and he ws sending the Royal Cockroach Ballet Company to perform the "Dance of Death" in the hope of getting the Fat One to put out more may have been the single best. :) Obviously, I loved the Freak Brothers and especially FF's Cat, though the TV series they made recently for Tubi was just horrifyingly bad. I was fortunate enough to meet Gilbert Shelton when he was a guest at the San Diego Comic Con a few years back and he was a fascinating speaker, both in his stories about the origins of the Rip Off Press, and in his personality in general, as he basically IS the Freak brothers, especially Phineas and Fat Freddy. That became perfectly clear as he explained that the reason that he'd dropped off the map for so many years was that he'd gone to France for a vacation and there was a problem with his ticket back, so he'd just decided to stay there for a few decades, which he considered a perfectly normal response.
Same here, and I can still recite many parts from memory, verbatim... even though I probably shouldn't. :)
...love the story about Gilbert Shelton. Wouldn't have minded if that happened to me when I was in Germany.
I've had the same inclination when I've been in New Zealand. One of the great "what ifs" of my life was when my dad was offered a job there when I was in High School, but we ended up in Houston instead. Things worked out fine, but one always wonders...