This Islamic community center occupies the former Colonial Mansion kosher banquet hall.
From the NY Times, December 9, 2007:
If there were a commissioner for pigeon racing in the five boroughs of New York, in recent years that title would have gone to Frank Viola. Mr. Viola, a slight, white-haired man from Bath Beach, Brooklyn, founded his namesake club in the early 1990s and ran the Frank Viola Invitational for the last 16 years. With 1,500 birds, the race became one of the largest in the city, the Kentucky Derby of the pigeon season.
Brought to you by Steve Campanella, "a retired Marine and compulsive collector".
Here's a wider shot of the whole gate. We may be in Brooklyn, but this is some top-notch Queens chrome.
One of a pair of red-tailed hawks I saw on the golf course today
While stationed at neighboring Fort Hamilton in the early 1970s, Tiger Woods's father Earl played golf for the first time here at Dyker Beach, which is said to have been the world's busiest golf course in the mid-20th century.
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!
Email me at matt@imjustwalkin.com
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~9,954 miles walked
Your donations allow me to keep walking full-time. If you think what I'm doing is valuable and you'd like to offer some support, I would be very grateful. On the other hand, if you think I'm a worthless bum, feel free to email me and tell me to get a job, bozo. Both are excellent options!
