You can see the grade crossing from the previous photo off in the distance.

A rarity on the streets of NYC. That's a diesel LIRR train leaving the Long Island City station.

It's this enormous FreshDirect video billboard. With a screen size well in excess of 5000 square feet (how many NYC apartments could fit in that space?), it's the largest outdoor LED billboard in the world.

Six of the seven are within 200 feet of the Long Island Expressway (the elevated highway visible in the background). That proximity to a highway (in conjunction with them not advertising the business whose building they're attached to) is what makes them illegal, much like the billboard that collapsed onto the BQE a couple weeks ago.

Chuck Costello, the elevator man

I've already started unexpectedly running across obscure things I photographed weeks ago. It's nice to have that kind of history with a place — it makes it feel a little more like home.

PS 199Q's Playground of Peace

I hope we can expect similar craftsmanship in their products. Their awning serves to inspire further confidence.

As I was walking down 34th Street in Sunnyside today, I saw a tractor-trailer hit a parked car while making a right turn. The driver didn't stop, so I followed him over a couple blocks to his destination at a nearby loading dock. I told him he had hit a car; he said he didn't realize that, but that he would go take care of it as soon as he finished up what he was doing. He seemed nice enough, but I jotted down his license plates, etc., just to be safe. I walked back over to the car that he had hit, and noticed an FDNY parking pass on top of the dashboard. Looking around, I saw an FDNY building (the Medical Equipment Unit) nearby, so I rang the buzzer and went inside. It turns out that the car belongs to the gentleman (Steve?) second from the left, who seems, oddly, to be the happiest of the four guys pictured. Anyway, I passed along the information I gathered, just in case the trucker decided to flee the scene.

What else will I end up witnessing while I'm walking?

A camouflage pattern made from, or at least inspired by, the shapes of the five boroughs