Posted: March 22nd, 2010 | Filed under: Queens
Recently the State Parks Department made the piers at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City off limits to dog owners. The parks department posted signs around the neighborhood, designating spots as “Dog-Free Zones”:
Sometime after the signs were posted, a photocopied drawing appeared on light poles in Hunters Point decrying dogs’ status as second-class citizens. The writing says “LIC is not a gated community”:
Then the other day a sticker appeared on another light pole seemingly fighting back:
Who knows when or how this will end . . .
Posted: February 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Queens
The Queens West Sportsfield:
Queensbridge Park:
You’ve perhaps heard of the Little Red Lighthouse. This is the Little Red Comfort Station at Queensbridge Park:
What’s called by one local newspaper Lake Vernon Boulevard at the stalled River East project:
The whimsical Recycle-A-Bicycle Urban Garden underneath the Queensboro Bridge along Vernon Boulevard:
Other stuff: A Drive Across the Queensboro Bridge; Silvercup Studios; Century Rubber Supply on Jackson Avenue.
The North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park is one of our new favorite spots. Every week we’d head down there after work to hang out. A series of pages from those days, which I’ve posted all in one chunk. First, trying to capture the moon setting over Lower Manhattan from the North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park on August 25, 2009:
Watching what seemed to be a recent graduate’s picture being taken for a portfolio of some sort at the North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park on September 1, 2009:
The setting sun and some pictures of the Pepsi-Cola sign from the North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park on September 8, 2009:
Just when they open the park, more work, this time for a children’s play area in the North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park, from October 6, 2009:
Posted: January 31st, 2010 | Filed under: Manhattan, Out Of Town, Queens
I always liked the view from the rooftop parking garage at The Shoppes At Northern Boulevard, otherwise known as the place where there’s a Chuck E. Cheese on Northern Boulevard:
The Employees Must Wash Hands sign at the Forest Hills Trader Joe’s is funny, and a departure from the usual generic version:
St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan has been in the news a lot lately. The 60s facade of its 36 Seventh Avenue building is charming, for a hospital:
The whimsical birdhouse-type contraptions at McCarthy Square in the Village don’t look as if they’re Parks Department-approved, and that’s a good thing:
Another iteration of a Barneys ad on the side of the building next to the Tiles For America display in the West Village:
The Ace of Cakes guy was at the Beard House:
The Tribute in Light from a corner of Long Island City:
Maxwell’s in Hoboken:
On the way back from Hoboken, I noticed an ancient paint “ghost” under about 250 paint layers on the 7 train tracks in the 5th Avenue-Bryant Park subway station. It’s not there anymore (or it is, just under a new layer of paint):
