Kite Flight at Socrates

Friday

• Screening at Moving Image Museum - Thomas Mao (Xiao Dongxi)
• Black Light Talent Showcase - National Poetry Month Mount Moriah AME Church, Cambria Heights
• "This Is... Next Stop..." In-Sight Dance Company - Through Sunday
• Queens Jazz Orchestra Flushing Town Hall
• Poetry Exhibition: "Grab The Mic" Al Oerter Recreation Center (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park)

Saturday

• The World Of The #7 Train all-day adventure
• The Voice of Havana - Xiomara Laugart Jamaica Performing Arts Center
• Kite Flight Socrates Sculpture Park

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Photo (c) Timothy Vogel

Any idea what's going on in this one? If you say this one is too easy...I'll be impressed.

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One of my favorite Queens explorers is also the borough's official historian - Jack Eichenbaum. He's a professor of urban geography at Hunter College and leads walking tours throughout Queens and other boroughs, too, though Queens is definitely his most popular subject. He's a geographer, but that doesn't mean just the physical terrain of a place, but sights and people and tastes that define a neighborhood.

Check his website for his tours (You can always find his Queens tours in our weekend round-up, and often in articles like the Best of October in Queens.) What is very impressive is his attention to many corners of the borough, and his exhaustive knowledge of the communities along the path of the International Express, the elevated 7 subway.

Eichenbaum's signature tour is "World of the Number 7 Train," an all-day event held this year on April 30. The tour checks the old center of Long Island City, sees Sunnyside Gardens and downtown Flushing, and explores the multi-ethnic streets of Corona, Elmhurst, and Woodside, and the garden city experiment of Jackson Heights. That's a blitz of walking and traveling -- six separate neighborhood walks, but great fun to join an expert delving into one of the most demographically diverse areas in the country. It does includes time for you to get a good nosh of dim sum or Korean bbq in Flushing, just not much time for dawdling.

If you're interested in the "World of the Number 7 Train" Tour see Dr. Eichenbaum's contact info below. And enjoy one of my favorite paths through Queens!

• Jack Eichenbaum's World of the Number 7 Train Tour
• April 30, 2011 - 10 a.m.- 5:30 p.m.
• $39, reservations required, jaconet@aol.com or 718-961-8406

• Learning the Story of Queens, One Brisk Step at a Time [NY Times]
• Geography of NYC With Jack Eichenbaum

Photo (c) John Roleke

Happy Easter! Easter in Queens, NY

Friday

• TEDxFlushing Meadows Queens Museum of Art
• Kids' Week in Queens! Forest Park
• Screenings at Moving Image Museum: Tron: Legacy; "Steven Arnold Special"; Various Incarnations Of A Tibetan Seamstress; The Liberation Of Mannique Mechanique
• Neil Berg's Broadway Showstoppers Queens Theatre in the Park - Through April 30

Saturday

• Barnyard Easter Egg Hunt Queens Farm Museum
• Sakura Memorial Gathering - day of Japanese culture, with taiko drumming, Flushing Meadows Corona Park

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