New York City's deadliest disaster prior to 9/11
The colloquial name of this little graveyard springs from the belief that many of the Irish immigrants buried here fled to Astoria in the 1840s and '50s to escape the Great Famine.
Remember them? "Each sticker card features a Garbage Pail Kid character having some comical abnormality and/or suffering a terrible fate".
AND THE WATERMELON.
"EATING THE SKY vibrates with both dystopic and utopic possibilities, depending upon your worldview or mood of the day. The seemingly declarative aphorism defies easy interpretation and toggles somewhere between environmental, existential destruction and spiritual joy and nourishment."
from our favorite religious fanatic, Jack Chick. Read it here!
This long-abandoned house has become considerably more decrepit-looking since the Googlemobile last passed by in 2009.
Unlike some of its brethren, this Curbside Haiku sign has a QR code that's within reach of the general public. The corresponding haiku reads:
Aggressive driver.
Aggressive pedestrian.
Two crash test dummies.
