{"id":26003,"date":"2020-09-18T21:31:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T01:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=26003"},"modified":"2020-09-18T21:32:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T01:32:13","slug":"bono-cafe-in-astoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2020\/09\/18\/bono-cafe-in-astoria.html","title":{"rendered":"Bono Cafe in Astoria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this van for years now, parked around Broadway and 41st\/42nd Streets in Astoria, with the words &#8220;BONO CAFE&#8221; and a street address printed on its side. I don&#8217;t get it. The street address is that of a <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/Qhop7NyJXFrihR6V6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">6-story rent-stabilized apartment building<\/a> built in the 1930s, where a &#8220;cafe&#8221; is not likely to have ever existed. I find zero trace of a &#8220;BONO CAFE&#8221; in Astoria, ever. The van is parked in the area where this cafe would have existed, but I find no &#8220;BONO CAFE&#8221; in state business\/corporation databases. Anyone know wth the BONO CAFE is\/was\/isn&#8217;t\/mighta been?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26005\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26005\" data-attachment-id=\"26005\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2020\/09\/18\/bono-cafe-in-astoria.html\/bono-cafe-astoria-20200915_133938\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G965U&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1600177178&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0022222222222222&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BONO CAFE ASTORIA\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;BONO CAFE ASTORIA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;BONO CAFE ASTORIA&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26005\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BONO CAFE ASTORIA\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?resize=1080%2C810&amp;ssl=1 1080w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?w=2160&amp;ssl=1 2160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BONO CAFE ASTORIA<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen this van for years now, parked around Broadway and 41st\/42nd Streets in Astoria, with the words &#8220;BONO CAFE&#8221; and a street address printed on its side. I don&#8217;t get it. The street address is that of a 6-story rent-stabilized apartment building built in the 1930s, where a &#8220;cafe&#8221; is not likely to have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aslic","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BONO-CAFE-ASTORIA-20200915_133938-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-6Lp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26006,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003\/revisions\/26006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}