If you’ve been keeping a keen eye pegged on our Neighborhood Watch series (Lifestyler’s guide to the various residential areas of the city), you’ve no doubt noticed a trend. The first three installments–Bed-Stuy, Ditmas Park, Midwood–are all Brooklyn neighborhoods, which should come as no surprise as 3/4 of the staff hail from the county of Kings.

But we’re an open-minded lot, so we’ve decided to take a gander at our sister borough, Queens–Astoria in particular. Keeping tradition, we’ve tapped the mind of a fellow New York City-based blogger–Brian Heater, the mastermind behind the The Daily Cross Hatch, a wonderful indie comics blog–for the ins and outs of the place he calls home.