Category Archives: Pulaski Bridge
gentle manner
Combined Sewer Outfall BB-013, from the Pulaski Bridge – photo by Mitch Waxman To begin- I warn you- this post will most likely “gross you out”. In 1674, Boyle said: “I have often suspected, that there may be in the … Continue reading
The Pulaski Bridge
– photos by Mitch Waxman Shots from, on, and around the Pulaski Bridge over Newtown Creek. For a more in depth profile of the bridge, click here and visit DUPBO (Down Under the Pulaski Bridge Onramp).
confines of our kingdom
“Newtown Creek for the Vulgarly Curious” is a fully annotated 68 page, full-color journey from the mouth of Newtown Creek at the East River all the way back to the heart of darkness at English Kills, with photos and text by … Continue reading
Sewer Berries
– photo by Mitch Waxman Another of the vast inadequacies that Our Lady of the Pentacle must endure is the vast ignorance of vegetable taxonomy exhibited by your humble narrator. Seldom can I distinguish common supermarket species from each other, … Continue reading
Superfund me
– photo by Mitch Waxman LO, BEHOLD, and TREMBLE… for the Newtown Pentacle is back in session… Over several of the last few years, agents and officials of the Federal Government have conducted a strange and secretive investigation into certain … Continue reading
opiate peace
– photo by Mitch Waxman This is not a dead place, this Creek which forms the currently undefended border between much of Brooklyn and Queens, despite wholly inaccurate statements to the contrary recently presented by major publications. To begin with, … Continue reading
horrible and unearthly ululations…
– photo by Mitch Waxman (from the Queens Museum of Art’s “Panorama of the City of New York”) Loathsomeness awaits, in the deep. At the end of the Pleistocene, when the ice of the Wisconsinan glaciation was at last defeated … 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
Open Sesame, Pulaski, Says A Me
Just as a note, this is the 100th post at Newtown Pentacle. – photo by Mitch Waxman The burning thermonuclear eye of the Newtown sun burst through the occluding clouds of a murky sky, as I crossed the Pulaski Bridge. … Continue reading
Newtown Pentacle, too 