Day 842


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Winged lion on guard

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Barberz #92

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Payasito Chiquitin

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"Peruvian Photographer Moonlights as Jackson Heights Clown"

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Portal of the day

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Listo El Pollo, a former tiki bar transformed into "the Colombian Hooters", has apparently gone out of business.

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In God we trust

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Antioch Baptist Church of Corona, formerly the Queensboro National Bank

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Sport TV Station

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A sports bar?

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White cherry blossoms

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Sweetie Cutie bodega

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Built around 1911, this is "thought to be the oldest synagogue in Queens". The congregation was originally Ashkenazi, but "in the late 1990s, a charismatic kosher butcher and rabbi from Central Asia moved to the area and slowly transformed the synagogue into the spiritual home of a community of impoverished Bukharan Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union." Here's an NY Times profile of that butcher-rabbi and his community (and here's a brief follow-up piece).