Thursday Transcripts: Ricky Velez

A blue-collar Queens kid makes his HBO debut in Brooklyn

I was excited to talk to Ricky Velez about Astoria once I found out he went to the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts High School.

Not only is that school in my neighborhood, but also hired one of my good friends to work there. Not that my friend would’ve known or interacted with Velez. But still. Small world.

And when I saw Velez on Late Night with Seth Me…