The Spectacled Female From The Zoo Speaks Through A Sloth Puppet, “Queens: It’s One Stop Away!”

Queens boosters visit Manhattan, encouraging islanders to visit the borough:

With animal puppets, sound systems, and a slew of colorful banners set up around a Manhattan courtyard, some of Queens’ most notable leisure spots got together for “Discover Queens,” in order to boost visitation to the borough’s top sites.

The event took place Thursday, April 27, at the glass-enclosed Atrium on Madison Avenue, adjacent to Trump Tower and the Dahesh Museum of Art. The event was the kickoff to May’s “Spring into Queens” month, designated by Borough President Helen Marshall and the Queens Economic Development Corp. Throughout the month of May, there will be various promotions and discounts at locations such as Flushing Town Hall, Alley Pond Environmental Center, and P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center.

Representatives from the New York Hall of Science, Queens Botanical Garden, and many different cultural centers displayed what sort of fun the city’s less traveled borough has to offer. A spectacled female worker from the Queens Zoo spoke through a sloth puppet, while workers from the Museum of the Moving Image explained that Hollywood director Robert Altman will appear at the museum June 8, at the end of a month-long retrospective of his work.

Meanwhile, cities like Boston are put on notice that they have nothing on the Borough of Braganza:

“There’s certainly as much to do in Queens as there is in any other major city,” said Headline Communications President Michael Savino, one of the event’s organizers. “If you were to compare cultural, retail, and dining variety, it would compare favorably to cities like Boston and Baltimore. We have a professional baseball team, beautiful beaches in the Rockaways, destination pockets like Jamaica Avenue that amount to more than enough for those in the neighborhood to take advantage of.”

Savino said that the effort of the Discover Queens event was focused on informing Queens residents of the many cultural and leisure opportunities that are offered within their very own borough. Queens residents are the primary group, he said, followed by outsiders.

The comparison fell short, however, when everyone realized that Boston actually kind of sucks.