(of Queens.)
Once again, that's the Whitestone Bridge, with its stay cables, lurking in the background.
This marina opened just last year; the original one burned down two decades ago.
Malba, by the way, is an acronym constructed from the last names of its five founders: Maycock, Avis, Lewis, Bishop, and Alling.
This rink opened in 2005; the surrounding park had previously been closed for several years during the clean-up of illegal construction waste that a contractor hired to renovate the site had dumped there.
Ostentation seems to be the aesthetic of choice in certain parts of this Queens waterfront neighborhood, which was once home to two of the world's most famous people — Mary Pickford and, legend has it, Charlie Chaplin — among many other well-known entertainers (including Harry Houdini).
It's not all Spanish tile roofs around here — plenty of regular guys are still hanging in there, too.
What you can't see is a life-size carved stone nativity scene showcased inside a big recess in the brick wall behind the car.
A wonder of nature?! Whatever happened to the days of "adequately"?
Connecting Queens and the Bronx, this span opened in 1961 to ease congestion on the nearby Whitestone Bridge.
As indicated by the name carved above the door of the house on the right, this is the Le Cats on the Water feral cat colony, maintained by volunteers here at the LeHavre On the Water apartment complex.
Against the backdrop of PS 193's "Discovery of Dreams" mural, this memorial pays tribute to the fallen crew members of Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia.
Overlooking the Throgs Neck Bridge, the northern end of Utopia Parkway is apparently a popular spot for local anglers, including His Highness Hollywood J, a.k.a. The Whitestone Fisherman, a.k.a. The Best.
The mail might stop coming, but the Yellow Pages won't.
According to Immanuel's website, pilots flying into LaGuardia once used this church, with its lit-up steeple, as a landmark on the approach to Runway 22. One night, when the lights failed to turn on, the church got a call from the airport, asking if they still intended to light the steeple in the future.
LaGuardia is one of the few airports that still employs visual approaches, in which pilots use landmarks instead of instruments to guide their planes in. Here's a cockpit video of the scenic Expressway Visual approach to Runway 31.
Located inside the Pan-Macedonian Studies Center, this is the first Greek-American library in NYC.
It's been four months and he's still miserable. Although he's not the only one on the board questioning his choice of hairstyle...
I asked the guy standing out front how long this place has been a bar. His response: "Well, I know it's at least— let's see, I've been coming here since I was 16, so at least 30 years."
It's even more massive than this picture makes it seem.
Upturned roots, tarp-covered roof, fallen streetlight
I'm pretty sure this one's actually a spaceship. You can see some beautiful shots of the interior on the church's website.
Whitestone is home to quite a wide variety of ecclesiastical architecture! Here's some info about the repair work being done on this 1898 structure. And here's what it looks like without all the scaffolding.
Whenever you see a roadway wandering drunkenly at an angle across its tidy, orthogonal neighbors, there's a good chance that you're looking at one of the area's early thoroughfares, preserved at least in part when the street grid was later built around it. Such is the case with Cryders Lane, which once led to the farm of W.W. Cryder, a Dutchman who owned a large chunk of land in northern Whitestone. Things were presumably a bit more bucolic in those days, without all these Spanish-tiled behemoths blocking out the sun.
The original! I was there when Jason photographed this postal receptacle almost three years ago, but I didn't discover (and he didn't remember) he had titled it thus until after I returned from my mailbox-laden walk across the US.
The aforementioned Cryder farm was wiped out long ago, but its water tower remains, disguised as this thick brown signpost. If you walk around to the left side, you can still see the outlet pipe protruding from the base.
These police officers are taking some high-tech forensic measurements at the scene of an accident. Here's a closer look.
Here are some shots from the interior of this massive facility located in the College Point Corporate Park.
beneath the LIRR tracks. You can get a closer look here.
This tiny little lane runs just north of, and parallel to, the Port Washington Branch.
