Ladies and gentlemen, once again: Albania!
Diospyros virginiana, I believe, just about at the northern end of its range
Sitting in the yard of a (possibly vacant — it was hard to tell) synagogue
You could earn up to $500 for providing information about this flagrant flouter of § 10-119.
Home of the New York Emperors Stickball League. Hopefully I can catch a game in progress next time I pass by.
Built in conjunction with the adjacent Albert Einstein Junior High School. (One thing this walk has taught me: if a city park has a good name, it was probably bestowed upon it, as was this one, by Henry Stern.)
Some well-used walking paths have been built around the park since this article was written. A dumping ground no longer!
Remember these trailers? My buddy Dan has obtained photographic evidence of their use as equipment storage outposts for technicians, backing up the claim he made in the comments of the post linked above, and corroborating Anders's research as well.
I'm pretty sure you're officially hanging out.
Almost every roll-down gate in the city is accompanied by at least a couple of these sticker advertisements put up by gate repair companies hoping they'll get the proprietor's business next time the gate malfunctions. The stickers generally go unseen by the public (I never noticed one until your webmaster pointed them out to me), but they are EVERYWHERE. For example: this, this, and this.
This supremely weird-looking apartment building was once a Steinway piano factory, a predecessor to the current piano-making complex.
Beneath the viaduct leading to the Hell Gate Bridge
Set between the Hell Gate and Triborough Bridges, this beautiful swimming hole was one of eleven WPA-built city pools opened in the summer of 1936 (here's a great history of public swimming in the city). They were all enormous, but this one was the king. Designed for about 3000 swimmers, with facilities that could accommodate up to 6200, it even hosted the US Olympic swimming and diving trials in 1936 and 1964. You'll normally find more people frolicking here on a hot summer day; at this time of the evening, the pool is open only for lap swimming.
Adjacent to the swimming pool, this one hasn't stood the test of time so well. It has been unused for decades, but there are plans in the works to turn it into an amphitheater, with the triple-level diving board integrated into the stage.
I finally dropped the ol' Droid one time too many. Here's my first shot with the new phone, a Galaxy S3.
