Writer Edgar Gomez's Favorite Spots in Jackson Heights

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 MY SPOTS [Edgar Gomez’s Favorite Spots in Jackson Heights]( An old-school diner, Spanish-language used books, and an excellent selection of poppers. Photo: DeSean McClinton-Holland As a gay Latino, Edgar Gomez has felt out of place almost everywhere he’s lived. This feeling permeates just about every page of his debut memoir, [High Risk Homosexual](. His book details that search to build community — first in Florida, where he grew up, then in California during college, and later in Brooklyn, where he moved in 2019. But when he first visited Jackson Heights in August 2020, on the fourth anniversary of the death of the Mexican singer Juan Gabriel, he immediately recognized it as a place he could belong. Walking down the streets, to-go cocktail in hand, he heard Gabriel’s music blasted through speakers and sung by people he passed on the street. The neighborhood celebrated the Mexican music icon despite the fact that he was widely assumed to be gay. Gomez said this felt like a sign he would be accepted there. “It was also the first place that I’ve lived where I saw the Nicaraguan flag on a business. Just seeing that, I was like, Oh shit, these are my people.” [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( for unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [For a Brief, Beautiful Moment, We Knew Where to Find a Bathroom in the Subway Even if we couldn’t use it.]( By Clio Chang [Uber Is Uber’s Rudest Passenger Was the company not an option in the survey?]( By Clio Chang [Jane Jacobs Rented a Desk Here for $8 a Week. Now It’s Asking $8.9 Million. The West Village townhouse where Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of American Cities is for sale for the first time in 60 years.]( By Alissa Walker [A $399,000 Park Slope Studio and a Sprawling Jackson Heights 3-Bedroom Plus a renovated Gramercy Park one-bedroom on the market for the first time in almost 15 years.]( By Jenny Xie [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( It happened this week — let’s talk about it. [Sign up for My Week in New York](: a new newsletter from the editors. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( If you enjoyed reading Curbed’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or [sign up for our Design Hunting newsletter]( for a visual diary from design editor Wendy Goodman and the [Listings Edit newsletter](, a digest of particularly worth-it apartments for rent in New York City. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved