Tag Archives: newtown creek
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
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
Tales of Calvary 12- The Lynch monument
– photo by Mitch Waxman A magnificent and somewhat unique example of mortuary sculpture found at First Calvary Cemetery here in Queens is the Lynch monument. The screeds engraved on it indicate the presence of several generations of the family, … Continue reading
for silver
“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
marble glories
– photo by Mitch Waxman A favored aphorism amongst Occultists is “as above, so below”, a saying attributed to having been coined by Hermes Trismegistis and recorded upon the legendary Kitab Sirr al-Asrar (aka Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina) or Emerald Tablet. … Continue reading
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 stinking shallows
– photo by Mitch Waxman As mentioned in yesterday’s posting, aimless wandering around the Dutch Kills tributary of Newtown Creek was how your humble narrator spent Monday afternoon. The stealthy ones… let’s just call them Cats… pointed me in this … Continue reading
Guess what
– photo by Mitch Waxman So, I went out for a walk today. My only intention was to begin carving off some of the lard which has been quickly accumulating about my midsection during the gluttonous holiday season, but found … Continue reading
a creeping run
– photo by Mitch Waxman Of late, when staring into the occluded depths of those waters which line the littoral rim of western Queens and north Brooklyn, ones’ fancies dwell on exactly what it might be that could be down … Continue reading
Newtown Pentacle, too 