The Reckoning

Congratulations Giants, tough luck Pats. Now it's time for the score that really matters: Yours. Here are the answers to the Queens IQ Quiz, Part II:

(6) Monty McFadden, played by Tom Waits, is one of a group of friends from Astoria gathering for pal Ray (Ken Olin) and Patty's (Chloe Webb) wedding in Queens Logic. Patty's friend Carla (Linda Fiorentino) on Monty: "Cute? The guy buys a new Monte Carlo every year because his name is Monty." Here's Monty in action:

(7) Traveling west to east, Metropolitan Avenue takes you past the Linden Hill & Ahawith Chesed cemeteries (at Grandview Ave.); the Mt. Olivet Cemetery; the Lutheran Cemetery; and St. John's Cemetery. It takes you within a block of Maple Grove Cemetery before terminating in Jamaica. That's a lot of dead metropolitans.

69 and fine

(8) It was a "troubled" '69 El Camino that future governor Andrew Cuomo worked on for weeks and then, on a test drive, and against his brother's advice, dropped the hammer with disastrous results. He goes for Stingrays these days. The story is told well in this Times piece.

(9) Michael Griffith was struck by a car and killed on the Belt Parkway. He and two friends were fleeing a gang of white youths in Howard Beach. His friends survived, though one was badly beaten with baseball bats.  Four of the white youths were convicted of second degree manslaughter and assault and sentenced to 15-20 years. Sadly, it was not to be the last hate crime in Howard Beach.

(10) Vince's indy film was Queens Boulevard. The final line: "I am Queens Boulevard." As far as I know no one has yet made a film using QB's nickname "Boulevard of Death." But don't pinch it, it's copywrit.

(*Bonus*). How did Karol Kozlowski get from his lodgings in Greenpoint across the Newtown Creek where he could get a subway to Astoria? He took the a trolley across the Vernon Avenue Bridge. This map shows the extensive streetcar network operated by the BMT in Brooklyn and in Queens in 1924. The Vernon Bridge was replaced with the current Pulaski Bridge in 1954. By then, expansion of the subways had made the trolleys redundant. Kozlowski commuted on the G train for the last few years. Poor bastard.

Well, how'd you do? If you scored a 10 (or 11 with the bonus), give a holler. You've got a Cardvark T-Shirt coming your way.