Looking out at Brooklyn across Upper New York Bay

from the crazy elevated sidewalk

Paul Newman and Martin Sheen each lived here at some point, and Emilio Estevez, Sheen's son, was reportedly born inside the building.

Invasive little jewels

There were two or three other identical signs posted elsewhere around the playground.

"City Reverts to Its Days of Hobbling"

with different philosophies on aging

Well, not really.

I just learned a new word: tetrastyle.

That's a laundry ladder at right.

It's surprising to come upon this large hexastyle municipal building in the middle of a sleepy residential block.

Looks like the logo's new since last summer.

to a sealed-up vacant building

from just about the top of Grymes Hill. That's the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the distance.

(at Clove Lake)

The Lake Club

at Martling's Pond in Clove Lakes Park

This tulip tree is one of the two largest known trees in the city. (It looks much more impressive when you have your friends hold hands and attempt to encircle its trunk.) The Queens Giant is older and taller (134 feet vs. 119 feet as of thirteen years ago), but the Colossus has more limbs and a thicker trunk, giving the two trees roughly the same mass of somewhere around 50,000 pounds. (Here's a look up toward the top of the Colossus.)

This building is still hanging in there, but the Castle, which once stood next to it, bit the dust last year, as we first learned from afar.