{"id":687389,"date":"2026-06-06T05:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687389\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:33:14","slug":"inside-the-crazy-new-york-queues-where-people-wait-for-hours-for-insta-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/687389\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the crazy New York queues where people wait for hours for Insta-cred"},"content":{"rendered":"

In front of L\u2019industrie Pizzeria, as at many other New York restaurants and shops, customers queue up behind barriers \u2013 in this case, all to grab a prized pizza slice.<\/p>\n

Not everyone in America\u2019s biggest city finds standing in line to be a chore. The power of social media trends means that for some, waiting for hours is an attraction in itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s gotten pretty crazy in the city recently,\u201d said food influencer Ali Chilton, who has 168,000 followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome would blame me for the lines at some of those places,\u201d the 31-year-old said, citing a craze for hot chocolates at dessert shop Glace after a video she posted in 2023 racked up tens of millions of views.<\/p>\n

People can queue overnight in New York if needed, as happened last year when punters sought to bag free tickets for a play starring Lupita Nyong\u2019o and Peter Dinklage in Central Park.<\/p>\n

\"PeoplePeople wait in line outside L\u2019industrie Pizzeria in New York City on May 15. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n

Isabella Downes, who lately waited 40 minutes outside a Manhattan deli, said she was drawn to the idea of \u201cparticipating in something trendy and fun\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In front of L\u2019industrie Pizzeria, as at many other New York restaurants and shops, customers queue up behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[298591,23,6125,41670,298595,298588,298589,4136,298590,171968,4227,2005,298593,3,76137,298592,298594,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-687389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-ali-chilton","tag-america","tag-apollo","tag-central-park","tag-damn-lines","tag-dot-cakes","tag-glace","tag-instagram","tag-lindustrie-pizzeria","tag-lupita-nyongo","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-newgeography-com","tag-news","tag-peter-dinklage","tag-roberto-casati","tag-same-ole-line-dudes","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}