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If you were thinking about a fun afternoon at the Bohemian Beer Garden in Queens, think again, sucka! Joey in Astoria says the line has been around the block for the last few weekends:
It looks to me like those good ole relaxing days down at the beer garden just might be over. There has been talk for the past couple of years of how the crowd has been getting more and more "manhattan-ish" or even "hipster-ish". Sadly I have now witnessed it, whatever you want to call the invasion!I have been staying away purposely because of stories of gold lamee purses and skinny jean wearing androgynous peeps seen on line, but this past weekend a friend decided to have his birthday there. Apparently he and the main gaggle of friends got there before lines started- when things still had a semblance of the way they used to be a long long time ago...
Here's a prediction: in ten years there will be no restaurants or bars or luxury supermarkets-- just endless lines snaking around the city. People will define themselves by the kinds of lines they stand in, and New York will be rechristened as the "Conga Capital of the World."
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I was just there last night and it was quite pleasant, not a lot of people around. Fuck the weekend, do it up after work on a Monday.
The line has nothing to do with capacity outside- it's about how many people are inside the bar (so says the bouncer last time I was there). They can't let too many people in the building at once. They really need to build an entrance for the beer garden that doesn't involve going through the bar/restaurant.
NYU, with its hipster student body, does have a study abroad program in Prague, so a significant portion of that line probably consists of former students getting nostalgic over memories of $1 half-liters.
"People in glass beer gardens shouldn't throw stones."
I'm sure the Czech lodge members had some disparaging remarks about "Joey" when they decided to make the Bohemian their local. You live in Astoria for "5.5 years" and suddenly think your B and R?
I sympathize with the annoyance of your favorite bar being too crowded, but it could be worse. Most of my favorite old time haunts ended up going out of business because not enough people went.
"Shake Shack East"?!?
The burgers here suck.
I lived right down the street until a few months ago, and can absolutely confrim the "hipster-ish" transformation over the past year. Out of nowhere last summer, there were lines starting at about 7pm on the weekends. It was never like that before, and the crowd had totally changed.
Luckily, as Steven said above, any time outside of weekend nights are still tolerable.
The line really isn't that big of a deal, but of course I would rather that all you pretentious Brooklyn and LES hipsters would leave the Beer Garden to those of us who choose live in the awesome borough that is Queens. I am forever grateful that "Queens" is not synonymous with "edgy and cool" to the multitudes of unemployed art school grads coasting by on their parent's wealth.
and I'm glad that brooklyn isn't filled with people who make broad generalizations.
It's so true how the Beer Garden has gotten worse every year when the weather gets warmer.I live a few blocks away & love going there to get together w\ all of my local friend's & I must admit that I do regret when I read an article on The Garden in Time Out Magazine or The Village Voice becuse more people will be coming from the city,which means longer lines,nastier & louder people. It's a communial place to have fun & sometimes the people who have never frequented it before can push,shove & complain about the locals....if you have a problem with it than go back to Manhattan.
For shake shack there's no excuse, it was the dumbest waste of an hour. But where are you going to go after you rode the subway ALL the way to Astoria? Who the hell isn't nostalgic for $1 beer that's fresher/better than 99% of beers available here?
Does it give anyone else the chills when someone use the word "hipster." Eeeewwwwwww. What does it mean anyway? By the way, if you ran this about three years ago it would have been more aproppriate.
Maybe "Joey" should build his own beer garden so that he can have it allll to himself. God forbid people other than he and his friends enjoy the beer garden!
I love the place, and I hope the lines are not a sign of things to come this summer, but I sure don't have any special sense of entitlement to the place just because I've never had to wait in line to get in. Too bad real estate is too out of control for anymore beer gardens to open up in the city...it could use them!
"You live in Astoria for "5.5 years" and suddenly think your B and R?"
Bridge and Runnel?
I concur to the person that said to leave the Bohemian to us Queens locals! Aren't there more places like this in Brooklyn and Manhattan?
There are lots of out of the way beer gardens in the outer boroughs, if you think this one is too crowded just go to another.
B and R = Born and Raised, Ms. Dumas
i agree that bohemian hall has gotten a little crazy on warm weekend nights. however, i was there this weekend, and it was totally pleasant. it was sunday, though.
and joey in astoria is cool, btw.
Are you local? This is a local shop for local people. There's nothing for you here.
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