Just off one of Staten Island's amazing Greenbelt trails.

of the versatile chicory plant

This happens sometimes in Staten Island. You can get a better sense of things from this aerial photo.

Its fruit looks like a cross between an Easter egg, a grape, and a potato, and it's coming to get you!

The things that look like round purple flowers are actually structures of bracts; the flowers themselves are tiny little trumpets, visible in this photo as yellow/white specks growing amidst the purple (you can see a closer shot here).

This hideous monstrosity is good for you!

Delivering natural gas from the Gulf Coast to New York City

You don't forget that building once you've seen it. (We came upon a local congregation of this controversial church back in Jackson Heights.)

Coming soon: a new house of worship for Staten Island's St. George Malankara Orthodox Church of India