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side…HUSTLE! (and other sunnyside trumpery)

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courtesy of urbandictionary.com:

side hustle - a sideline that brings in cash; something other than your main job. maybe playing weekend gigs or life coaching.

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In this borough, in this day and age, side hustles are not entirely uncommon. Business owners need to feel they can get ahead.. or even just squeak by. Either way, delving into one’s bag of tricks for other ways to hustle-hustle-hustle can sometimes pan out… and sometimes, it can make you look pretty stupid.

In Sunnyside, the working man’s armpit of this consumer-driven city, we’ve taken note that side hustles come and go in some of the most curious of places…

The Butcher’s Block Irish grocer and deli (41st St b/w Queens Blvd and 43rd Ave):

SIDE HUSTLE: Healthy selection of low-budget movies on DVD wedged indescriptly between the sweets and the crisps

Baruir Armenian coffee shop, deli and grocer (on Queens Blvd b/w 40th and 41st Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: The ever-popular Romanian calling card business…

OOO clothing boutique (on Queens Blvd b/w 39th Place and 40th St):

SIDE HUSTLE: Professional ideas and web page design from the jerks attempting to resurrect Disney prints and Umbros on Queens Blvd…

Sunnyside Drugs and Pharmacy (on Queens Blvd and 39th Place):

SIDE HUSTLE: Next time you’re in the geriatric accessories aisle, feel free to round out that pharmaceutical experience by dropping bank on your telephone, cell phone, credit cards, cable, gas, and electric!

Kim’s Happy 1-Hr Photo shop (46th St b/w Queens Blvd and Greenpoint):

SIDE HUSTLE: All the prepaid airtime your contraband cellies can handle…

Botanica La Fe perfumery (on 45th St just across the Woodside border b/w Greenpoint and 47th Ave):

SIDE HUSTLE: Mother Mary totems/figurines and Christmas lights in April..

SSS DVD Video store (on Greenpoint Ave b/w 47th and 48th Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: The kinky “Magic Massager”, drinking games, and other such reputable phallus..

L&W bodega (on Queens Blvd at 45th St):

SIDE HUSTLE: Organized gambling shove-offs for your aging relatives directly into the bowels of New Jersey…

Sun City Tanning (on Queens Blvd b/w 44th and 45th Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: Recently renovated solar salon… they shell out cash for old-school video games, and adorned their entry level with bean bags and gaming stations for that stoner in all of us…

Fish Market on Queens Blvd (recently relocated from b/w 41st and 42nd Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: Peddling MetroCards at face value.. y’know, in case you’re more comfortable with the smell of raw fish and sea anemone than the welcoming reek of piss in the subway station at 40th St.

April Glass knick-knacks and paddywhacks gift shop (on Queens Blvd b/w 44th and 45th Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: Desperate times call for desperate measures…

Movie Bank USA self-serve DVD/video rental kiosk (on Queens Blvd b/w 41st and 42nd Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: Um…for real?

Rosario’s Pizzeria, currently celebrating 43 years in the ‘hood (on Skillman b/w 50th and 51st Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: Pizza dude rocks out in local fashion…

Stephanie’s Unisex Barber Shop (on Skillman Ave b/w 50th and 51st Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: Semiprecious jewelry in glass display cases brings the flair of Canal St minus the dumbfounded Midwestern tourists…

Book Chang Dong Korean natural tofu restaurant (on Queens Blvd b/w 40th and 41st Sts):

SIDE HUSTLE: Shilling spiritual swag for the nearby Korean Trinity Presbyterian Church.. seriously, when was the last time you saw a cassette tape?

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The Butcher’s Block
43-46 41st Street
Sunnyside NY 11104
718-784-1078 

Baruir Coffee
40-07 Queens Blvd
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-784-0842 

Sunnyside Drugs
39-51 Queens Blvd
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-482-0003

Kim’s Happy Photo
45-06 46th Street
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-482-7870

Botanica La Fe
45-61 45th Street
Woodside, NY 11377
718-392-4179

SSS DVD Video
47-18 Greenpoint Ave
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-729-7531

Sun City Tanning
44-21 Queens Blvd
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-389-7686

April Glass
44-09 Queens Blvd
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-937-7578

Rosario’s Pizzeria & Restaurant
50-12 Skillman Ave
Flushing, NY 11377
718-672-1700

Stephanie’s Unisex Barber Shop
50-04 Skillman Ave
Flushing, NY 11377
718-639-9325

Book Chang Dong Korean Restaurant
40-06 Queens Blvd
Sunnyside, NY 11104
718-706-0899