Tag Archives: Queens Plaza
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
pitying smiles
– photo by Mitch Waxman Inveterate pedestrians who frequent the primary arteries of Queens will tell you that are few City streets like Jackson Avenue in Long Island City. As the ancient thoroughfare slides past the Megalith at Court Square, … Continue reading
with palpitant heart
– photo by Mitch Waxman Startlingly interesting is the only way to describe the experiences of the preceding year. Attempts have been made to cogently describe and colorfully illustrate the encounters your humble narrator has enjoyed in this 10th year … Continue reading
Progress
– photos by Mitch Waxman The growth of the Tishman Speyer Gotham Center building in the new Queens Plaza, from every corner of the Newtown Pentacle.
wholly kaleidoscopic
– photo by Mitch Waxman Often have the Sunnyside Yards been referred to at this, your Newtown Pentacle, as cyclopean- gargantuan- or titanic. Perhaps it is just that we New Yorkers are not used to seeing such accumulations of acreage … Continue reading
mother of invention
– photo by Mitch Waxman Another recent bit of serendipity experienced during a random walk, this time a bit further down Northern Blvd. and directly across the street from the Standard Motor Products building on 39th street, it seems that … Continue reading
LIC Millstones updates
To begin with, the so-called “LIC Millstones” are a pair of colonial era industrial artifacts, which have incontrovertibly survived into modernity- in Queens. Quite a controversy is afoot about them, which I’ve been actively involved in. Recent developments bear some … Continue reading
No surgery! No Suffering!! Make Your Life Better!!!
– photo by Mitch Waxman The ridicule of pretention and a desperate desire to describe wonders witnessed drive your humble narrator to offer these recent photos. Driven by hubris and frustrated aspirations, vast journeys across the major metropolitan city have … Continue reading
highly visible
Broadway near Steinway Street – photo by Mitch Waxman As your humble narrator scuttles from place to place, turning over rocks to see what blind albino abnormalities might lurk beneath, a significant amount of road construction is encountered. New York … Continue reading
Newtown Pentacle, too 