u/KaruiPoetry

I didn't! Popped in for a spontaneous burger and a beer and I ended up joining the trivia ruckus. Was a good time, Victor the host MC has great energy.

Hey neighbors, I'm looking to hire a mover to help me relocate about five or six blocks away from where I live now. I'm moving from a two-bedroom to a studio apartment, so there's not very much to move. Mostly the heavy objects are a desk and a bookshelf and maybe a couple other miscellaneous items.

I just don't have the physical strength or confidence driving a rental van to get it done myself. If y'all have any experience with this or something like it, I would love any recommendations on good, reliable professionals. Thank you.

September 1 - Tuesday

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Beginner Yoga in the Park - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Sobelsohn Basketball Court

September 6 - Sunday

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intenSati Cardio Class - 5:30PM - 6:30PM Sgt. Schaefer Oval Lawn Myrtle Ave and Park Lane South

September 10 - Thursday

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Virtual Book Club: Murder at the End of the World - By Akane Araki - 7:00PM

September 17 - Thursday

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Forest Restoration - 10:00AM - 12:00PM Buddy Monument Forest Park [Registration Required]

Forest Hills Reddit Meetup - 6:00PM Cobblestones Biergarten

Poetry Night at Kew & Willow - 7:00PM Kew and Willow Bookshop

September 19 - Saturday

Kew Gardens Arts Day - 12:00PM-5:00PM Austin Ale House Back Patio
Support local artists and find something neat to take home!

Music at the Bandshell - 3:00PM George Seuffert Bandshell Forest Park

September 20 - Sunday

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Game Night at Kew & Willow - 7:00PM Kew and Willow Bookshop

September 26 - Saturday

Forest Restoration - 10:00AM - 12:00PM Buddy Monument Forest Park [Registration Required]

Breakfast at the Bookshop - 10:30AM - 11:30AM Kew and Willow Bookshop

September 27 - Sunday

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September 30 - Wednesday

Author Talk - Madhur Anand - 7:00PM Kew and Willow Bookshop [RSVP]

Trying out a new monthly thread in tandem with the soap box! Know of an event happening in the neighborhood? A dope concert at FH stadium? Drop a comment here and I'll do my best to keep the post updated with a full list. I'll figure out how to streamline it moving forward but for now, let's just get rolling!

Edit: I'll be playing around with the formatting and whatnot so please bear with me as I learn ❤️

Hello - this is a monthly thread for random thoughts, conversations, oddities, and anything else related to Kew Gardens and surrounding neighborhoods - Jamaica, Forest Hills, Briarwood, Richmond Hill, and Kew Gardens Hills.

If you have something you wanted to share or talk about but didn’t want to make a new post, consider commenting here!

I know this is a long shot but I really want my son to learn Russian and Spanish. Seeing as I only speak English and Russian I figure I can take the lead on this. My Russian is unfortunately not great and I have precious few people to speak it with.

I'm doing my best to speak with him when I remember but I find myself lapsing back to English more often than not.

Anyone have any advice, tips, etc in this area?

For context, i am 15, and 4’11 (F). I am very much visibly a minor without question. There’s no “little adult” possibility on the table. I am clearly a child. 

Anyways, recently. I’ve been experiencing an uprising in uncomfortable situations and being followed twice in the same week. It’s never been like this. 

Heres the situations recently. 

(1) On the R line, a man started rambling to the train about finding jesus in a movie, wakanda forever and how theres no south american representation and so on. 

Everyone was tuned out, no one was listening. It’s weird how he was saying it, he didn’t appsar to be on drugs or alchohol.. he had the exact same cadence as that of of a teacher or professor. 

Then he looks at me specifically,

and says “I know all of what i’m saying is the equivalent as one of your queefs right?”

What..?

Thats a disgusting thing to say to a minor. 

I don’t respond, the train has stalled due to a delay. 

He continues talking about my private parts and just girls in general too, at this point i know i need to be out of here. 

I look at this dude infront of me, a it’s a chubby construction worker and he starts smirking like he’s enjoying it. 

I’m out. I need to leave, so i do as the train has stalled for a while, and the man has turned away. 

When im out, i notice the man has turned back.

And yells BYE. 

Ok..

I have a weird gut feeling to start.. speed walking. 

The direction i’m going has no exit to the mezzanine, so i just speed walk as far as i can, going to my right. 

Then i enter about half a train away from the car i left.

Everyone’s looking at me, i practally dashed in and i look very nervous.

The train has still stalled, and for a couple minutes i think im fine, nothing else has happened. Yay.

And then, i hear someone yell something indistinguishable. Its the same man who was talking to me before. 

Instantly i knew he followed me here.

”YOU JUST SWITCHED TRAIN CARS”

In maybe a millisecond i run to the nearest person, which was a buisness man leaning against the center pole of the car. 

And i urgently tell him. “He’s following me”

The train car has sort of parted, i see so many eyes on me.

Im the only one who talked after the man yelled. 

Now im starting to hyperventilate. 

So the riders are starting to pick up what’s going on.

The business man, without even a second thought grabbed my totebag and sort of pulled me out of the train car and said “let’s go” .

As we leave out of the train car, i turn back, and the man has followed us out, yelling. 

And he asks me which one it is.

Theres two men outside of the train car (one unrelated and in the way between us) 

He can’t tell which one it is but he doesn’t care and we start running. (The direction we go has no exit as we are going the opposite way as the man who came from the left) so we enter another train car before it finally closes. 

Im starting to cry now. He tells me it’s okay and that i did the right thing. Everyone’s looking at us, whats a finance bro doing with a crying teenange girl.  

We leave at the next stop, which is 34th street i think? 

He tells me to look for a cop. (To which there is none), we get out to the mezzanine and he asks me if i need to go to the next stop or if i could get out here. 

I don’t know where this place is, so i need to get on anotber train. We wait untill a couple trains leave, and he makes sure i get on another train in the same car as that of the conductor.

Situation 2 and 3

In the bryant park library, there are some staircases where sometimes it’s desolate and empty. But there’s still cameras.

1st time, i walk past a guy sitting on the steps and he asks me to be his girlfriend, i ignore him and leave. Nothing else, weird but nothing else happened. 

but the second time someones asked me to be their girlfriend on those staircases (common occurrence now i guess??) was this puerto rican guy in his 40’s-50’s. 

Hes walking down the staircase above mine, we make eye contact. 

Then he says “Hey shortie wanna be my girlfriend”

I ignore him and then he’s speed walking down the stairs. Then i start accelerating, he’s going pretty fast. He tells me “No, where are you going?!”

The staircase is crowded the more lower we get, so i ask this guy for help to which he says “idk” to, ok thanks a lot.

I run down to the first floor and i tell a security guard someone’s following me.  He asks me who to which i point at him. 

The man directly comes up to us. The security guard asks why he’s harassing me and that he will call the cops.

The man completely ignores him and tells me i’m a good runner in a weird tone, then leaves out of the library. 

The security guy, thank his soul, told me he could still see him waiting outside of the library and said i should leave through the back exit near the librarians or just stay here and wait.

4th scenario, most recently, (yesterday).

I happened to take a different train that day.  i didn’t mind the fat walk it would take me back home. 

The train station was in sunset park.

As im walking home, i walk past this group of hispanic men and one white man who are standing still.. just doing nothing.

Okay, i walk past them. 

And half a block later, im hearing loud talking.

Im walking past this building that has windows you can’t see through, its just blue and reflective. I look at the reflection to see whos behind me. And i see two of the hispanic guys very very close to me. 

Okayyy.. i start walking a bit faster. I have a gut feeling to turn. So i do, and the direction i’m going is straight into a quiet hasidic neighborhood. 

Then they turn..

hm.

Then i hear something like ”español??!” i think they are talking to me, i turn my head and they are smirking. 

Nope, not doing this. I decide to jaywalk at the halfway mark of the block, and the cars block which direction i go after the jaywalk, they decide to jaywalk exactly where i did. 

Nope nope nope i start running the opposite direction.
They didn’t see the direction i walk.

At the end of the block, is the white guy i saw with them earlier. 

His seems to be talking to me but i didn’t catch it. 

Then i hear he’s warning me about a dog. i say “oh okay” then he leaves down the block.

Then i notice it, a stray dog in front of an auto body shop??

I really love animals, so i stop to pet and let it and call animal control. 

It let’s me, i call 9-11 but there’s no answer and i decline. 

The dog seems to be owned by the auto body shop? But im not so sure.

Then in notice the white man at the end of the block just waiting..

Hm.. 

So i decide not to go that way and take a longer route back home. 

I go outside again a couple hours later to go to a long walk, and outside is a familiar bengali man sitting utop long steps in kensington , i always see him with hispanics drinking alchohol and sleeping the night with them on the benches. They always have their belongings laid out on tree branches and city decoration.

That place has been destroyed and i hate walking past it. They stare at EVERYBODY and make gestures. And it makes me so uncomfortable because its 100% a perverted stare, one of them is on a sex offender list according to citizen. 

Theres a rumour that this man tells kids he has scooters and asks them to come with him.

That was last year, but i still beleive it because he’s extremely weird, he’s always making gestures for people to come to him. And he did so again from ontop of the stairs. I ignore him but he’s repeatedly doing it. So i shake my head and continue walking and turn the block. Then im out of sight from him. 

Ive only been having super weird encounters until recently, it wasn’t so bad last year.. i don’t know what’s going on or why its ranked up. Statistics show the city has actually gotten safer in crime, but minuscule things like these don’t go reported.

how do i protect myself? I can only run well, i cant fight and have never done so. Pepper spray and tasers are illegal for anyone under 18 and if i use it on someone who harasses me ill be the one that goes to jail.. 🫠