Pizzaboy-- as a fellow pizza professional, I'll accept your explanation of Skinny but obviously his unfounded aside DOES come off as racist.

Likewise, if we want to talk serious Queens, St. Albans and Hollis are both long time bastions of the black middle to upper middle class-- and both, as a whole, lots classier than any # of majority white Jersey shitholes.

Queens has all sorts of 'hoods true-- Queensbridge, Rockaway projects, parts of Jamaica etc-- but to say Forest Hills is one, or a black neighborhood, period, is not just nonsense but factually wrong, though I'm sure there are some East European/Asian crime interests there... just like there's LCN in Maspeth, Middle Village etc... Ridgewood is interesting borderland in more ways than one but I'm not Romanian enough to say more.

One thing I'd be curious to learn about is what factions run, say, Elmhurst and Flushing, and how they relate, if at all, to the BK and Manhattan Chinatowns.