King of Falafel & Shawarma is a local middle eastern food restaurant in Astoria, Queens with three food trucks, all of which serve up some of the best falafel in all of New York City. In this profile video from our friends at Munchies, meet Freddy Zeideia, the "King of Falafel."

King of Falafel & Shawarma has been serving mouthwatering Middle Eastern cuisine on the streets of Astoria for the last 17 years. The falafel recipe, with its unique oval shape, is a guarded secret of owner Freddy Zeideia, who mastered it with techniques he learned while growing up in Palestine. After being dissatisfied with the falafel and shawarma offerings in New York, Freddy took matters into his own hands by starting King of Falafel & Shawarma in 2002. Since then, his enterprise has grown, with a truck in Astoria, a cart in Midtown, and a newly opened restaurant in Queens.

Many New Yorkers know of the weirdness that exists in the West Village, where two supposedly parallel streets intersect at W 10th Street and W 4th Street, but there is a far weirder set of intersections located in Maspeth, Queens that you should know about too.

In this 6-block section of the residential neighborhood, you will find 60th Avenue, 60th Street, 60th Road, 60th Drive, 60th Lane, 60th Place, and not to be left out, a cul-de-sac named 60th Court! There are eight intersections where one 60th roadway meets another 60th roadway. Good luck delivery drivers!

Colorization artist Dave Hart recently took this great vintage photograph, showing a Jewish Market on the Lower East Side around 1895, and applied his magic to it, presenting a street scene that is close to what it would have actually looked like in that era had the camera been able to capture color. Check out the Shorpy page for more on the image.