Long Island City, Fall 2009

Posted: February 24th, 2010 | Filed under: Queens

The Queens West Sportsfield:

Queens West Sportsfield, 5th Street and 47th Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, October 1, 2009

Queensbridge Park:

Queensboro Bridge From Queensbridge Park, Long Island City, Queens, October 20, 2009

You’ve perhaps heard of the Little Red Lighthouse. This is the Little Red Comfort Station at Queensbridge Park:

Comfort Station and Queensboro Bridge, Queensbridge Park, Long Island City, Queens, October 20, 2009

What’s called by one local newspaper Lake Vernon Boulevard at the stalled River East project:

River East Site/Lake Vernon Boulevard, 44-02 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens, October 20, 2009

The whimsical Recycle-A-Bicycle Urban Garden underneath the Queensboro Bridge along Vernon Boulevard:

Recycle-A-Bicycle Urban Garden, Vernon Boulevard and Queens Plaza South, Long Island City, Queens, November 4, 2009

Other stuff: A Drive Across the Queensboro Bridge; Silvercup Studios; Century Rubber Supply on Jackson Avenue.

The North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park is one of our new favorite spots. Every week we’d head down there after work to hang out. A series of pages from those days, which I’ve posted all in one chunk. First, trying to capture the moon setting over Lower Manhattan from the North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park on August 25, 2009:

North Recreation and Interpretive Area, Gantry Plaza State Park, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, August 25, 2009, 9:37 p.m.

Watching what seemed to be a recent graduate’s picture being taken for a portfolio of some sort at the North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park on September 1, 2009:

North Recreation and Interpretive Area, Gantry Plaza State Park, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, September 1, 2009

The setting sun and some pictures of the Pepsi-Cola sign from the North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park on September 8, 2009:

North Recreation and Interpretive Area, Gantry Plaza State Park, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, September 8, 2009, 7:21 p.m.

Pepsi-Cola Sign, North Recreation and Interpretive Area, Gantry Plaza State Park, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, September 8, 2009

Just when they open the park, more work, this time for a children’s play area in the North Recreation and Interpretive Area of Gantry Plaza State Park, from October 6, 2009:

North Recreation and Interpretive Area, Gantry Plaza State Park, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, October 6, 2009