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2012

January 1st, 2012


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The ashes of New Year’s

January 1st, 2012


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Under the Belt Parkway

January 1st, 2012


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...a dip in the ocean at Brighton Beach!


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Elm Place

January 2nd, 2012



I'm starting today in the Bronx.

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An early candidate

January 2nd, 2012



for most shoes on a utility wire

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Bronx Baptist

January 2nd, 2012



Jesus saves, but Moses invests.

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Bedrock

January 2nd, 2012

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Inside a vivero

January 2nd, 2012



A small slaughterhouse where customers pick out the animal they want slaughtered

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Yeah

January 2nd, 2012



You should probably get that head thing checked out.

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Awwwww

January 2nd, 2012



What an adorable mascot!

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Turkey cannibal

January 2nd, 2012

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St. Ann’s Church

January 2nd, 2012



Resting place of, among others, Gouverneur Morris, the "Penman of the Constitution", who died after attempting to clear his blocked urinary tract by sticking a piece of whalebone up his urethra.

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Scootin’

January 2nd, 2012

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Information overload

January 2nd, 2012



I'm taking this photo from the Bronx span of the Triborough Bridge (officially renamed after RFK a couple of years ago, but still colloquially known as the Triborough), which is actually three different bridges connecting the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens. You can see the Bronx on the left, separated from Randall's Island (which is part of the borough of Manhattan) by the Bronx Kill. Queens is visible in the background, separated from Randall's Island by Hell Gate (which is the name of that waterway). The bridge we're looking at is part of the Hell Gate complex of railroad bridges and viaducts. You may be wondering why this bridge seems to be largely spanning a ballfield. When it was built, the Bronx Kill was considerably wider, but has since been narrowed by the addition of landfill to Randall's Island. In fact, the name "Randall's Island" is actually something of a misnomer, as it is connected by landfill to Wards Island, which used to be a separate island lying to the south.

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The Discus Thrower

January 2nd, 2012

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A long haul

January 2nd, 2012



The Queens span of the Triborough

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Wards Island football

January 2nd, 2012

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The Hell Gate Bridge

January 2nd, 2012

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The Manhattan skyline

January 2nd, 2012



As seen from the Triborough

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Astoria, Queens

January 2nd, 2012



You can see the Hell Gate viaduct running across the picture off in the distance.

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Late afternoon in Astoria

January 2nd, 2012

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A chilly morning in Queens

January 3rd, 2012



Long Island Expressway over the Dutch Kills

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This morning’s companion

January 3rd, 2012



The elevated BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), with the occasional building tall enough to peek over at me

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Musical Triangle

January 3rd, 2012



is the name of this odd little public space guarded by harp-playing raccoons and nightmarishly large hornets.

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Kennedy Fried Chicken

January 3rd, 2012



A true New York "original".



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An old gantry

January 4th, 2012



Gantry Plaza State Park

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Another view from the park

January 4th, 2012

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Your Daily Door

January 4th, 2012



There are a lot of good doors in New York. I'll try to find and photograph one each day from now on.

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School lunch tow truck

January 4th, 2012

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Subway substation

January 4th, 2012



Under the Queensboro Bridge

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Ouch

January 4th, 2012



Note the original Belgian block paving stones exposed where the asphalt has worn away.

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No other calorie delivery system can match the efficiency of FOOD BLAST!

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On the gates of PS 70

January 4th, 2012



I love the reversal of figure and ground.

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Steinway Reformed Church

January 4th, 2012


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A glimpse into the past

January 4th, 2012



This building on 41st Street in Astoria still bears the original name of that street. Its eponym, Albert, was one of the sons of piano magnate William Steinway, who built the still-operating Steinway Piano Factory nearby in 1870.

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Speaking of Steinways…

January 4th, 2012



This is the Steinway Mansion, located at the top of a hill on an otherwise grim and industrial stretch of 41st Street.

P.S. It's for sale!

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Beautiful reliefs

January 4th, 2012



Bowery Bay Water Pollution Control Plant




Use yours wisely.

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Weickert Sheet Metal

January 5th, 2012



Some odd architectural flourishes in an otherwise unadorned part of town

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Just wait till spring

January 5th, 2012



Sunnyside Gardens, Queens

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Neighborhood AC library

January 5th, 2012



Jason Eppink, my dear friend and designer of imjustwalkin.com, made an entire film about people's creative and individualized solutions to AC window unit problems.

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Welcome to nowhere

January 5th, 2012