#queens blvd.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Highway maintenance, Queens and Woodhaven Boulevards, August 13, 1926. Below, a shot of the same intersection in September, 2022.

Top photo: NYC Municipal Archives Bottom photo: Google Maps

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Children climb on armored German vehicles in front of the local pharmacy on Queens Blvd., south of Union Turnpike, January 14, 1944.

Photo: NYC Municipal Archives Instagram

[newtownpentacle]

unmistakable style

Thursday – photo by Mitch Waxman As mentioned yesterday, a bit of gear which allows me to place the camera in positions that would normally require lying prone on the sidewalk to capture has recently been added to my camera bag. When shooting these, I had in mind a narrative I was going to talk about them with which would describe how I’ve given up walking in favor of crawling. – photo by…

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[newtownpentacle]

blazed dangerously

Wednesday – photo by Mitch Waxman Another shlep across Western Queens in the dark, that’s all I wanted to do. While on this particular scuttle, I discovered that I had fully burned through yet another pair of Merrel hiking boots over the prior six months and that it was time to order another pair. Concrete devours the treads of my shoes, and after noticing that my trick left foot was causing me…

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[newtownpentacle]

baffling region

Tuesday – photo by Mitch Waxman About a hundred and change years ago, roughly a hundred horses a day would die of exhaustion and overwork somewhere in the greater NYC area every single day. Common practice was to just abandon the corpse on the street, and an entire industrial sector operated around the collection and disposal of the beasts. Van Iderstine’s in Long Island City and other…

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[newtownpentacle]

vastness transcending

Can you smell that, I think it’s Thursday. – photo by Mitch Waxman A humble narrator can now claim to be fully vaccinated against COVID, with the second shot of the Pfizer vaccine having been inserted on Tuesday. I did experience some after effects on this one, which can be described as the set of symptoms you’d normally be experiencing before telling a loved one “I’m getting sick.” No fever,…

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[newtownpentacle]

disconcertingly adumbrated

How ghastly, it’s Tuesday. – photo by Mitch Waxman As you’re reading this, a humble narrator is either on his way to Manhattan for his second vaccine shot, or returning from that accursed island all juiced up with the stuff. Other than a bizarre desire to stand in front of an operating microwave oven while browsing Amazon for the latest model of X-Box, I didn’t have any side effects from the…

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apoplectic faced

Monday – photo by Mitch Waxman A humble narrator is taking a break this week, as his anxiety and or stress levels have become absolutely maxed out. Thusly, you’ll be seeing single shots and regular postings will resume next week. Pictured above is the corner of 48th street and Queens Blvd., the fulcrum of a neighborhood angle twixt Woodside and Sunnyside here in Queens. Note: I’m writing this…

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