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Heading south toward JFK

November 22nd, 2014



The Van Wyck Expressway and, above it, the AirTrain

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XGDF Association of New York

November 22nd, 2014



An organization for former members of the Guyana Defence Force

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Barberz #105

November 22nd, 2014


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Barberz #104

November 22nd, 2014


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Royal Empress

November 22nd, 2014



This catering hall appears to be equipped with its own poultry slaughterhouse.

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Catholic War Veterans Square

November 22nd, 2014



This little city park consists of some trees, a few benches, a flagpole, and this nameless, inscriptionless stone cross.

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109-63 139th Street

November 22nd, 2014



This house seems very oddly situated today, pushed way back into the interior of the block and turned at an angle relative to its neighbors. Compare aerial images from 2012 and 1924, however, and it all starts to makes sense.

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It's "for the party", a guy on the street told me.

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Today’s route — 20.5 miles

November 22nd, 2014

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High times on the Pied-a-mer

November 21st, 2014


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A hotbed of Queens chrome

November 21st, 2014



The little knot of southwestern Flushing that Kevin Walsh refers to as "The Haight" is home to at least four sellers of the ubiquitous stainless steel fencing and railing known (to some) as Queens chrome.

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Crotch full o’ wasps

November 21st, 2014



Here at the Queens Botanical Garden, there's no sign explaining what this statue is or who sculpted it. A garden employee told me its identity is kind of a mystery. He said the most common belief is that it's Icarus, but I think it looks like St. Michael. (The garden employee said he'd heard that theory as well.) Zoom out and you can see where the Satan-slaying instrument in his right hand would have been. If it is indeed St. Michael, this would be the second time we've seen the archangel stripped of his weapon.




From the February 29, 2008 NY Times:

In an era of private grandeur, New York City has built a temple for the public in Queens: the Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Natatorium and Ice Rink — it does not even have a corporate name — which is to open on Friday.
Designed to be the water polo venue in NYC's failed bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics, this $66.3 million, 110,000-square-foot facility — with its swooping cable-stayed roof spanning an Olympic-size pool and an NHL-standard rink — was the largest and most expensive recreation building ever constructed in a city park at the time it opened (though not anymore).

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Bending around

November 21st, 2014



the Pool of Industry. That's the home of the Mets in the background.

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This is the Korean version of the snakehead sign. (Note the enormous twin flagpoles in the background.)