Category Archives: Long Island Rail Road
wonderful epics of a nameless city
– photo by Mitch Waxman This is not the world you know, this unmentioned and currently undefended border between Brooklyn and Queens, where the requiescant waters of the Newtown Creek gurgle and splash. Beyond the Pulaski Bridge- where an observable … Continue reading
strange and brooding apprehensions
CREEK WEEK continues… for the first installment, from the mouth at the East River to the Pulaski Bridge, click here. For more on just the Pulaski Bridge, click here. – photo by Mitch Waxman (from the Queens Museum of Art’s … Continue reading
dimly lit and illimitable corridors
– photo by Mitch Waxman Over in the part of Long Island City that isn’t shiny, where it stinks of work and sweat and oil and shit and every surface is painted with an iridescent sheen – the colour- scuttled … Continue reading
Siderodromophobia
– photo by Mitch Waxman This is another of those posts where someone will say “so, a train went by, huh? wow”, so let’s just get that right out of the way- Jan 20, Pulaski Bridge. So, tongue firmly in … Continue reading
In the cold waste 3
This is the 163rd posting of the Newtown Pentacle, last one of 2009, and just about 6 months into this little project. Halfway through writing this, I had to evacuate the building due to a fire in another apartment. NYFD … Continue reading
Long Island City Zen 2 -The Empty Corridor
Know this spot? 50th avenue and 25th street – photo by Mitch Waxman This is 50th avenue and 25th street, and here’s a google map (I suggest hitting street view and exploring an area via the google service, it’s really helpful … Continue reading
Dutch Kills has balls
Be sure to check out the large images at flickr for insane amounts of detail in these shots. In some places- every stitch on a baseball. – photo by Mitch Waxman I am given to moods, melancholy, and suffer from … Continue reading
Headed for the grave… or Astoria to Calvary 3
Just in case you want to refer to a google map. 43rd street and 37th avenue -photo by Mitch Waxman In the first installment of this photowalk- we scuttled through western Queens, which is the northern ventricle of our Newtown … Continue reading
Lurking… in fear- or Astoria to Calvary, part 2
Here’s a google map (including part 1 of this walk). Dwyer Square -photo by Mitch Waxman Perhaps… The world knows all that it ought to know of Western Queens, and would remain merry in the satisfied ignorance of modernity- were … Continue reading
A Big Dig in Queens
Sorry for the quotidian nature of parts of this post, but if someone says it better and more succinctly than you can- just acknowledge and accredit the source I always say. Sunnyside Yards, Degnon Terminal- photo by Mitch Waxman An Observation: … Continue reading
Newtown Pentacle, too 