The ravenous Beast of the Southeast is expanding its domain northward.
If you look closely, you can see "B of R" inscribed on the manhole cover; this means it predates 1975, when the Borough of Richmond changed its name to the Borough of Staten Island. (Each of NYC's five boroughs is coterminous with a county; Staten Island is still Richmond County.)
That's gotta be rough on business at the liquor store.
On display outside the Engine 265/Ladder 121/Battalion 47/EMS 47 firehouse ("Best on the Beach"), this 1897 bell dates back to the old village of Arverne-by-the-Sea, which was once a happening beach resort before it was leveled by the city in the late 1960s and then resurrected, without the hyphens, as a new mixed-use development over the past several years.
if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
Indeed!
That bridge in the background carries the A train over Jamaica Bay from Subway Island (yes, that's what it's called!) to the Rockaways.
A million miles away from the faint skyline of Manhattan
I keep seeing them every 100 feet or so along the edge of the wildlife sanctuary.
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
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