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Skycar

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Winterized fire hydrant

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Co-op City power plant

November 15th, 2012



When an apartment complex has 55,000 residents, I guess it makes sense for it to have its own power supply. After major renovations a few years ago, this facility became NYC's first trigeneration plant.

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Late fall in Co-op City

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Co-op City: Outside looking in

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Autumn leaves and Aunt Jemima

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Well, have you?

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Portal of the day

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More yellow

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with a touch of green

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Boxy pedestrian bridge

November 15th, 2012



over the country's busiest passenger rail line

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Sight and “sight”

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Winged Victory

November 15th, 2012



We'll get a much closer look at the towering Bronx Victory Memorial in Pelham Bay Park sometime in the future, but here it is from afar.

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Hawk on the prowl

November 15th, 2012



I'm not certain of this, because I was pretty far away, but I believe there is a wild parrot nest at the top of that light pole (located where I-95 cuts through Pelham Bay Park), and that hawk was, to no avail, checking the nest for tasty morsels. You can see what looks like a parrot nest in a larger version of this photo, and I could hear some raucous, parrot-like squawking in the area. Perhaps some of the birds resettled here after their homes at the park's nearby ball fields were removed during renovations a couple of years ago.

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Checking in

November 15th, 2012



Here we are, back at that dump of a stable on Pelham Parkway that was largely torn down a few years ago when it was discovered to have been illegally built on DOT property. Even though the building has been declared unfit for human occupation, there is, last I heard, one poor horse still living inside.

UPDATE (Dec. 28, 2014): The owner and another guy live here too!

UPDATE (Apr. 29, 2015): NY Times — "A Squatter’s Last Stand at a Condemned Bronx Barn"

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1200 Pelham Parkway

November 15th, 2012



The ol' saving-your-parking-spot-with-a-cone maneuver