Cool Cars, Woodside/Astoria Zombie Edition

This nicely appointed Jeep was noticed while parked at a service station found at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Newtown Road, last summer. Adorned with multiple decals indicating that it was the property of a “Zombie Response Team,” I for one am glad that someone is finally taking this sort of eventuality seriously given the presence of so many large cemeteries in Queens.

Somebody has to.

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There are plenty of zombie apocalypse “preppers” here in Western Queens, have no doubt about it.

Caches of small arms abound in Astoria, with multitudes of firearms hidden away in closets, basements, and garages – just in case of a manifest plague of Zombies (or a mass escape from nearby Rikers Island, or there’s a sudden influx of hipsters from Brooklyn, or for celebratory purposes should the Mets by some miracle win the pennant).

I didn’t know there was an organized vehicle fleet for zombie uprisings, but I must point out that this sort of vehicle would be wholly inadequate for the sort of infestation that New York City would need to deal with. You’d really need an armored car or truck at the very least, and personally I’d prefer to be within some sort of military armor.

Still, you have to work with what you’ve got.

The big question that our elected officials in Queens might ponder in a Zombie uprising would be whether or not Zombies could vote.

If the walking dead were eligible to cast a ballot, would they reliably vote Democrat? It wouldn’t be the first time that the population of a graveyard helped buoy an election victory around these parts, after all, and the Zombies would be courted by the various powers that be. Long time Queens residents would likely shrug their shoulders and say that things used to be better, back in the old days.

A brain in every pot, the politicians would promise, and resolutions to prosecute blows to the cranium as hate crimes would be introduced by the City Council shortly afterward.

Newtown Creek Alliance Historian Mitch Waxman lives in Astoria and blogs at Newtown Pentacle.