Corona

Really? Yeah, with my mom because she raised me a Mets fan.

She grew up in Queens, in Corona, Queens.

And we went to all these games together.

And then we were at the Benny Yadviani 13th inning home run.

When there was a problem with a neighbor in ...

when they lived in Corona, Queens, like, you know, he had to go to his sort of mafia connection.

The guy he had a problem with had to go to his mafia connection.

There was a parleying and then they solved the problem.

I mean, they were I- you know, they were Italian American, so they were, you know, nominally Catholic.

But he didn't ...

You know, he, he would, he act- he actually grew up in, in Corona in Queens.

Um, spent the first eight years of his life there.

It is.

And at the root of it all, it's a house on a street in Corona, Queens.

That part of, again, that core, we were talking about earlier, the core culture or the fabric or the personality of the organization is at the root of it, a home.

So much of the organization's you know, programs and the way that it, you know, talks to its audiences is around this idea of, you know, come on over.

I was born in Queens.

What's the name of the pizza place? Oh, so it used to be Tony's in Corona, Queens that I used to go to.

It was like off 108th Street.

So he's not there anymore.

I didn't even show you this thing I got last weekend.

So, like, we had an event at the Queens Library.

We had an event, the Moon Peace Podcast, where we did an anime volunteer list for, like, a lot of the people in the community at the library in Queens, in Corona Queens specifically.

was a free event um they hired us to like do like a tierless board thing for it was like a lot of kids and families and stuff like that so we basically like curated the event we built the board prints out a ton of pictures and stuff like that so that people would come up and have a conversation but there was a vendor at the event and i got this y'all look at this didn't even show it to y'all look at that It's like 50 bucks.

It's cute though.

In typical provocative fashion, Madonna arrived at the Manhattan venue dressed as Little Bo Peep carrying a stuffed toy lamb.

In 2003, the longtime brick home of jazz icon Louis Armstrong and his wife Lucille officially opened to the public as a house museum in Corona, Queens, New York.

That's over sort of near where Citi Field is, where the New York Mets play, over in the Flushing area.

Anywho...

He was nicknamed the Singing Bobby.

He was an Irish tenor who was huge in the UK and Ireland in the 1940s and 50s with his theatrical stage presence and his vocal performances.

Betty Driver, meanwhile, passed away in 2011 at the age of 91 from pneumonia and While she is more famous for being the barmaid called Betty Williams on the British soap opera Coronation Street, she originally gained fame in the 1930s and 40s as a big band singer and musical film actress.

Bobby Lester passed away in 1980 at the age of 50 from cancer.

Uh, yes, I'm Burt Young.

I was born in Corona, Queens, New York.

I had the greatest parents.

My pop, he became like a, a minister in, in a high school.

They hooked up in the '70s when liquor and weed was heavy.

Had me in Corona, Queens.

By the time I was nine, I was out of my mind.

Stepdad didn't like it, beat me out of my mind."