Battle Of The Boroughs Part IV: Queens Wants You Guys To STFU

Courtesy of Aesthetic Movement

Slowly but surely, each borough is coming to defend itself in the Battle of the Boroughs; yesterday we heard from The Bronx, and before that from some of the more outspoken boroughs (and Kanye). Well, now Queens speaks out and is asking all you other boroughs to please STFU. Long Island City-based design studio, Aesthetic Movement sent in the above poster designs saying they're "stepping into the ring... representin' Queens to the fullest!" Does Queens really want to be known as such a buzzkill though?

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on May 31, 2011 12:36 PM

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Victory

This is by far the best of all the posters. Hilarious! Bronx gets 2nd place. Staten Island gets 3rd place and my sympathies. :)

Julie Goldsmith

Astoria says, We're still Indie! Suck it Williamsburg!

prick4u

the concept is good, but it backfired. Also agree with r_photo...take the R to the last stop in Bklyn and is just like taking the R to the last stop in Queens...no cool, plain, blue collar hood.

Christopher Havens

they are so right, BKLYN has jumped the shark....

GiovanniGF

I can't judge the Greek and Korean (?) posters, but the one in Spanish reads to me like it was done with Google Translation Tools - each word is literally correct but the text as a whole doesn't really make sense. The sentiment is fine, though.

jibbly

Chinese not Korean, but yeah, probably mangled through google translate or something.

torchTheMall

Queens:

chuzzlewit

why'd you have to make a record 'bout me?

jaycjay

Seems like they're telling their neighbors in Queens to shut up, not the rest of us. I have no problem with that.

SHHHHH

It's more like, unlike the other boroughs, Queens is filled with the meat & potato workers that run this city and really don't have time for Brooklyn's and Manhattan's foolishness.

And they want them to stay off the lawn.

PhotoR

HAHAHAHAHA You've obviously never been in any Brooklyn neighborhoods besides Billyburg and Pork Slope

Guest

Run the city? Keep dreaming. Lawn? You mean 5x6 patch of cement with weeds growing through the cracks.

thealarmist

Hell yes, Queens runs this city. Where so you think all the police officers, firefighters, transit and sanitation workers live? With all the other workers down on the front-lines.

Not to mention, where do you go if you need to fly somewhere? Newark? Lol.

colonelcasey

You've never been to eastern Queens have you?

Guest

I've been all over Queens, I know a lot of people have lawns and whatever. I just don't like Queens. Astoria is nice. But if I want real suburbs I go to Long Island.