Richard Albright (7th between A & B)

"they always say... "i wish the people of the world could live together in peace and prosperity"... well they are doing it in Queens"

From Texas, he and his wife moved to Astoria 2 years ago and they're here to stay. He loves the diversity of the city, the subway, not having to drive and as a Shakespeare aficionado, he appreciates all the small intimate productions that play throughout the city... He especially likes Monday night Shakespeare at the Brooklyn Lyceum and this Saturday he grabbed his beach chair and the subway and treked up to Inwood Park to see Julius Ceasar. The beach chair also gets to go to beaches, such as Fort Tilden in the Far Rockaways and Jones Beach in Long Island. He enjoys the Greek Seafood restaurants in Astoria and Dominican Stew in Inwood, but he never quite knows what he's ordering and hopes to get it right some day. He also recommends a little restaurant off-indian row in the east village called Haveli.

I met Richard as he was wandering around Tompkins Square searching for the little known monument to those who perished in one of the city's greatest catastrophes, the General Slocum Disaster of 1904, when more than 1,000 lutherans from St. Marks Church in Kleindeutchland or Little Germany as the East Village was known then, perished when the steamboat that was taking them on their annual outing to the Long Island Sound caught fire on the east river. I hope you found it!