Jackson Heights Life

The negative comments on this post are basically asking this place to cancel their current lease, find another location that doesn't cost 20k a month, and hire a Manhattan design firm so that you can possibly, just possibly, feel comfortable eating there. And then you'll complain about the price of the food going up. Maybe you're not the best customer base to seek out. In the meantime, I'll keep talking it up. 

If Roosevelt is seriously too worrisome for people, it's easy enough to walk down 76th Street from 37th Avenue.

I don't post here a lot, but the nitpicking and negativity is completely out of hand. 

To me, the restaurant is clean and spacious and low-key in a good way. The food, which to me is the most important reason for visiting a restaurant, is tasty and unique to the neighborhood.

I feel like the non-restaurant owners/hobbyist design aficionados should go somewhere else on the internet to critique commercial interiors. To bash this place over and over is doing a disservice to an amazing new local business.

Owners and managers of Laly's: I am a loyal patron and I do my best to tell everyone I know to try out your restaurant. I hope others will continue to do the same.

Great article about a frustrating topic. I'm still bitter about Plant Love House after all this time, and Uncle Zhou's departure felt like opening up a fresh wound. Again with the absurdly high rents for no good reason. Though if all it takes for a restaurant to stay in Queens is a 1 or 2 dollar markup on a dish (as suggested by the Plant Love House owners in the article), are people willing to pay? I certainly would be fine with it.

This makes me sad! I loved going there, especially for the knife-shaved dial oil noodles. I hope that they relocate somewhere close.

Until then, does anyone know of another place nearby that might have a similar dish?

Hi Noelia: Welcome to the area. In case you haven't had any luck so far, I would suggest joining the Jackson Heights Families Yahoo group and posting there. Hope it works out!   

I do hope the family follows through with their plan to open up a new location in Queens! (and I also hope there's a landlord out there who will give them a fair rent.) It was likely a wise business choice to open another location in DeKalb Market, but please don't let this be another restaurant that leaves Queens for good.   

I'm not completely against the carshare plan, but a better use of this space, especially in a dense neighborhood like JH, would be to expand Citibike stations here. Does anyone know if this is ever going to happen? It does seems like in order to expand further out in the boroughs that they might need to extend the 45 minute ride time that's included in the base price. Still, it is infinitely frustrating that the bike share program only goes to LIC.

Current Jackson Heights Zipcar users: do you find it difficult to rent cars in the neighborhood right now on the weekends?  (I used to have this problem while living elsewhere in NYC.) Would additional rideshare services like this one be useful to address the demand?

As a woman living here I haven't had any issues besides the occasional catcalling, which can happen anywhere. I've never been physically threatened or felt like I was in danger in any way. To me Roosevelt Avenue is really not that bad - sure, there can be rowdy drunks later in the evening, but I generally feel safer on streets that have a lot of foot traffic. Like anywhere in the city, I feel a little less safe walking alone on ANY street past midnight or so, but I do my best to walk fast and stay alert. To me this is just part of living in a large city.