of Bridge 35

This Pennsylvania truss bridge, located right at the edge of All Faiths Cemetery, carries the southern end of the New York Connecting Railroad over the tracks of the Lower Montauk Branch at Fresh Pond Junction, Long Island's primary freight rail yard.

Structures like this were once used to temporarily store bodies until their burial sites were ready, sometimes for long stretches during the winter when the ground was too frozen to dig into.

and boatin'

Trust God

Found in the bathroom at All Faiths Cemetery

That's what the State Division of Cemeteries has to say about All Faiths Cemetery, originally known as the Lutheran Cemetery.

This guy and his chainsaw were dropping substantial pieces of tree branches (zoom in to see one in flight) directly above utility lines and into the street with nary a warning sign or orange cone in sight. (Actually, there were two cones in sight, but they were just sitting on the truck. Also, they were stamped with the Con Edison logo.)

Currently mounted to a fence on a dead-end street in Elmhurst, Queens, this multilayered palimpsest used to be one of the Triangle Parks Commission's "Brooklyn begins at Flatbush Avenue" signs. And if you really look closely, you can find evidence of yet another past life: "leash, gutter and clean up after your dog".

The gas lamps that once illuminated the aforementioned Triangle parks — formerly utilitarian traffic islands converted into little parklets in the 1970s — were donated by Brooklyn Union Gas under the company's "Cinderella" program. (We previously learned that this program was the origin of the not-nearly-as-old-as-you'd-think gas lamps found in front of many Park Slope residences.) Coincidentally, Brooklyn Union was also the company that built the massive gas tanks (and traffic-report landmarks) that for decades stood just beyond where the sign above is now located, on land that has since become Elmhurst Park.

of the Long Island Rail Road