Queens Crap One of my favorites, regular updates and a real editorial voice Tugster Exploring the sixth borough of New York, the harbor, with Will Van Dorp Newtown Creek Environment Newtown Creek Alliance A community organization dedicated to revitalizing, restoring and revealing Newtown Creek. Newtow...
My walk homefrom the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Astoria was governed by proximity to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, and the conscious intention followed was to never let it out of my sight. After entering Williamsburg, the theoretically high speed road runs in a trench surrounded by some of the ...
I was born in Queens, New York, one of four boys raised in extreme poverty by a single disabled mother. When I was 14 years old, I left school to work full-time and help support my family. From selling flowers on street corners to mopping floors at a Wendy’s restaurant, sheer ...
We had a drink and a meal,and decided that we would splurge on a nice air conditioned cab ride back to Queens. –photo by Mitch Waxman When I’m paying for a ride,I like to at least get something out of it that I can keep, so my habit is to rig the camera up for high speed...
a highway that carries 32 million vehicle trips a year 106 feet over water. The highway feeds into the Queens Midtown Tunnel, and we’ll end it all at the LIC ferry landing where folks are welcome to grab a drink and enjoy watching the sunset at the East River, as it lowers behind ...
The infamous Newtown Creek,at its junction with the East River, flows languidly between Greenpoint in Brooklyn and Long Island City in Queens. This post is being written on Friday the 18th, and at the time of this writing, a young fellow named Avonte is still missing. Avonte Oquendo, a...
. If I was in high school, it’s where I would have gone for those sorts of pursuits. As a withering old man, however, all I’ve got is a tripod and a deep desire to explore lonely and ignored waterfront parcels like Luyster Creek here on the forbidden northern coast of Queens....
the new cable stay bridge’s construction. In addition to the… ahem… high speed traffic lanes of the BQE, there is also a pedestrian and bicycle pathway found on the new Kosciuszko Bridge which connects 43rd street in Queens’s Sunnyside section with Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint...
The United States military has been very generous to the students at Aviation High School, and the shop yard found on 35th street houses a few things that you don’t expect to find along Queens Blvd. That’s a plane I can’t positively identify- but I think it may be some iteration ...