to the 167th Street pedestrian bridge over the LIRR's Port Washington Branch
of Sapphire X Business Club/Karaoke. As you can see, the same patterns can also be found next door at the Mona Lisa Room Cafe.
and it's not even Thanksgiving! We were here once before, in early January of 2013; you can compare that scene to this one. And you can see video of the house at night here. In between our visits, the house's owners, the Lynch family, won $50,000 on the first episode of The Great Christmas Light Fight.
at Willets Point Playground. The Willets Point that this playground is named for, the home of Fort Totten (photos), is not to be confused with Queens's other Willets Point, the otherworldly, soon(ish)-to-be-redeveloped Iron Triangle.
Following a rough winter, 2014 has been a dismal year for NYC's normally bountiful fig trees. You could count the ripe figs I've seen this year on one hand, even if you're missing a finger or two.
Machines like this Roadtec RX-700e (a.k.a. De-Roadinator 1000s) are used to remove pavement from a roadway before it is resurfaced. Here's one in action.
From an NY Times article about Korean Restaurants in Queens:
A Bada Story feast (bring a crowd) might start with some excellent fried fingers of fish and a first-rate seafood pancake, then move on to a tableau of marine life not seen on the sashimi special at your corner sushi bar: chewy sea squirts with their wrinkled orange skin; strips of sea cucumber that unfurl like streamers from your chopsticks but tense up again when you bite down; sea worms that look like veins and taste like not very much but have chewiness to spare. Then, in a swirl of mist, arrives a whole imported Korean fluke that a few minutes ago was lounging at the bottom of a pool by the kitchen. The slices, draped over frosty ceramic cups to keep them firm, are arranged as they were on the skeleton, with the lightly crunchy hard-working muscles around the fins showcased at the edge of the platter.Photos here.
