Went to a BBQ yesterday for a friend who lives in Astoria. He was always the shy and socially awkward type, but since moving out on his own a few years back and joining some Meetup groups he's become extremely outgoing. One of the clubs he was in was for people with social anxiety, and holy shit there were a bunch of cute girls in the group... if you folks feel you have anxiety I'd recommend looking for a Meetup group similar to the one my friend found. All of the people in the group seemed like they were doing really great with their anxiety too, approaching and making conversations with me and others they didn't know...
So anyways, there were quite a few cute single Asian girls at the party, I struck up a long conversation and managed to get the FB info of one of the girls. She lives all the way out by my friend in Queens, but work brings her out to the Island a lot (she's the project manager for a construction company). She was cute and seemed very nice (though a bit on the shy side). Will have to follow up!