Monthly Archives: January 2011
an odd impulse
The Sidewalk, Barnett Avenue, Sunnyside – photo by Mitch Waxman Apologies for recent silences are offered, for your humble narrator has found vexing distractions and urgent tasks consuming all available time. Additionally, winter has just exposed its fangs earnestly and … Continue reading
hovering above
– photo by Mitch Waxman Recent business called for me to visit the facilities of a commercial printer which has established its physical plant in part of the former Degnon complex near Dutch Kills, which explains how and why I … Continue reading
NCA meeting update!!!
– photo by Mitch Waxman Postponed due to weather, will the scheduled Newtown Creek Alliance meeting for tonight! The official missive, from NCA Director Kathleen Schmid: The Newtown Creek Alliance meeting tonight is cancelled due to weather, we will provide … Continue reading
Current Events
September “officer of the month” award presentation at 114th PCT. Community Council meeting – photo by Mitch Waxman Of interest to those of us lucky enough to live in Astoria, the monthly 114th Precinct Community Council meeting will be taking … Continue reading
hazy unreality
– photo by Mitch Waxman Another one of those long exposure shots described in earlier posts, this enchanting bit of typography adorns a storefront here in Astoria. I’ve never taken my little dog Zuzu there for a haircut, as she … Continue reading
Project Firebox 19
– photo by Mitch Waxman Decapitated, this firebox on Skillman Avenue and Honeywell Street has long been severed from its designed functionality. I’m told by certain knowledgeable sources that you simply cannot remove the stump of an alarm box from … Continue reading
profound discouragement
– photo by Mitch Waxman With my favored vantage on Dutch Kills, the estimable Borden Avenue Bridge, once more accessible– I’ve been making it a point to aim my wanderings toward its general direction whenever I can summon the fortitude … Continue reading
vainly striving
– photo by Mitch Waxman Trapped by ice and cold, during that time of the year when the burning thermonuclear eye of god itself shines bright but carries no warmth, your humble narrator is bored-bored-bored. Crippled by vulnerability to cold, … Continue reading
Project Firebox 18
– photo by Mitch Waxman Badder than you, this urban survivor owns the corner of Vernon Vlvd. and Queens Plaza South. Scarlet, its backdrop is mighty Queensboro itself, and the mysterious doorway into its tower. Rumored by area wags and … Continue reading
disquieting effect
– photo by Mitch Waxman There’s a strange and seemingly shunned house not far from either Queens Plaza or Court Square, a hidden relict on 43rd and Crescent which is shadowed by the Megalith. Intriguing, it’s a fairly old structure … Continue reading
Newtown Pentacle, too 