The
Times, ever more upscale [at least in its
subscription pricing], takes a trip to a forgotten borough and reassures its readers about the dirty foreigners:
Quote:
Relaxing in Queens is not all about $22 foot massages. For $35 on weekdays and $45 on weekends, you can spend all day at Spa Castle, courtesy of one of Queens’s biggest immigrant groups, the Koreans. The four-story building in College Point (with a free shuttle from Flushing) attracts a cross section of Queens to its wild variety of saunas, including one lined with plates of gold, and another that uses color therapy “to help you achieve your desired state of well-being” (results not guaranteed). There are also elaborate hot tubs, with acupressure jets, both indoors and out, and plenty of massages and treatments. There’s even sushi, Korean and other fare and Starbucks coffee. (Don’t worry – the place is immaculately clean.) Massages, treatments and food and drink are extra.