5 Towns/Rockaway Master Thread

[Sport]

so i liked both minyanim, but i think practically R willig (8:30 minyan) makes much more sense for week to week with family and chabad for when i wake up really late. problem is 1) houses around r Willig are impossible to find/expensive, 2) R Willig's shul is pretty full, and it looks like it can't really expand in the near future, so no real seats for me. so i am stuck  .

Funny gaffe, i showed up on friday night (short kabbalas shabbos) hoping to hear R willig, and instead a random local rosh kollel got into serious detail on the machlokes on the kiyum mitzvas pru urevu (with like 5 boys aged 8-15), and the guy even misunderstood the famous story of a woman impregnated in a bath with some zerah in it and referred to a women in a bath filled with zerah (i couldnt help but lol , and then a ba'al habas started complaining as to the rabbi not giving a straight answer as to whether he should say a brocha before intercourse. good times.
I had to come back on shabbos day, and R Willig spoke beautifully and focused on R Chaim Shmulevitz's piece on the ohr and choshech in each person and how Kayain could be the originator of sacrifice and at the same time give the worst fruits when he had it all. Huge points for going to Sichos Mussar for the shabbos drasha (though it was kind of a rerun for me, it implies the quality of the hashkafa of the membership will be pretty good).

if you don't mind me asking, where do you currently live?

[shiframeir]

if you don't mind me asking, where do you currently live?

  Willowbrook (Staten Island). great place to live, but prices have gone up like crazy and i can get betterl value in the 5 towns (and save on city taxes).

[stooges44]

  Willowbrook (Staten Island). great place to live, but prices have gone up like crazy and i can get betterl value in the 5 towns (and save on city taxes).

The city taxes don't come close to the much higher grocery prices out here. I learnt that the hard way (well, I knew, but didn't really know) and I regret it a lot.

It irks me the most to see fundraisers for rebbeim to help pay for yom tov sponsored by supermarket X. Hmmm, why doesn't supermarket X make their prices normal and thus affordable to ALL and then you wouldn't have to have a huge fundraiser before every chag and another chance for supermarket X to see their name plastered everywhere.

[ushdadude]

The city taxes don't come close to the much higher grocery prices out here. I learnt that the hard way (well, I knew, but didn't really know) and I regret it a lot.

It irks me the most to see fundraisers for rebbeim to help pay for yom tov sponsored by supermarket X. Hmmm, why doesn't supermarket X make their prices normal and thus affordable to ALL and then you wouldn't have to have a huge fundraiser before every chag and another chance for supermarket X to see their name plastered everywhere.

you referring to stop and shop?

[ushdadude]

any recommendations for an alarm guy to install a new system?

[stooges44]

you referring to stop and shop?

Hahahhaha 

[shiframeir]

The city taxes don't come close to the much higher grocery prices out here. I learnt that the hard way (well, I knew, but didn't really know) and I regret it a lot. 

in staten island shopping is cheap, but we dont even have an all in one kosher place like gourmet glatt (though similar places are slowly opening). I know the kosher places are ridiculously expensive, but we are big trader joes and costco people, get virtually everything there so should be fine (unless those somehow cost more).

[sammyp]

in staten island shopping is cheap, but we dont even have an all in one kosher place like gourmet glatt (though similar places are slowly opening). I know the kosher places are ridiculously expensive, but we are big trader joes and costco people, get virtually everything there so should be fine (unless those somehow cost more).

I don't know what you're used to, but Costco here is a dump compared to other Costcos, and the lines can be horrendous.

[ushdadude]

I don't know what you're used to, but Costco here is a dump compared to other Costcos, and the lines can be horrendous.

I don't find it worse than westbury

[stooges44]

I don't know what you're used to, but Costco here is a dump compared to other Costcos, and the lines can be horrendous.

If you don't go on sunday it's not terrible and on that note, the lines in trader joes on sunday are also wrapped around the store

[springles]

I don't know what you're used to, but Costco here is a dump compared to other Costcos, and the lines can be horrendous.

not any worse than any other Costco I've been in and on the positive side ours has many more kosher products than most

[ushdadude]

I'm excited for excited for Oceanside's to open.

[Sport]

I'm excited for excited for Oceanside's to open.

Where are they opening in Oceanside?

[mercaz1]

Where are they opening in Oceanside?

dont know where but they opened already and have a gas station and sell alcohol.

[ushdadude]

Where are they opening in Oceanside?

Not sure exactly but pretty sure close to Long Beach

[CS1]

not any worse than any other Costco I've been in and on the positive side ours has many more kosher products than most

+1
And, the day of the week and the time of day make a big difference. Sundays are packed.

[shiframeir]

And, the day of the week and the time of day make a big difference. Sundays are packed.

same as in staten island (unless u go right at opening). but in staten we have more limited options (we got the meat usually and tons of mozzarella etc, but no sliced muenster, one of my faves)...

[shiframeir]

does anyone know about R David Fohrman's minyan in woodmere? can't find info of where it is and times etc (i heard its somewhere in the young israel and they learn after)?

[E-MAN]

does anyone know about R David Fohrman's minyan in woodmere? can't find info of where it is and times etc (i heard its somewhere in the young israel and they learn after)?

YI Woodmere nusach sfard minyan. They daven in the house next to parking lot.

[Yankee123]

Anyone try Skewers..

I was down the block and figured i would pick something up quick. Called a few times last night at around 7:30-8 oclock no answer. Drove buy - pitch black?
All done?