July 2010

Posted: December 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Feed, Manhattan, Queens

Already went over Play Me I’m Yours, Peru and Boston — all of which happened in July 2010. Here’s the rest . . .

NYU Langone Medical Center — the less said about that the better except to note that I now believe there could be such a thing as “reverse altitude sickness” that happens when one’s body readjusts to sea level. This is an anecdotal, not a medical, opinion.

M. Wells Diner in Long Island City is a cool use of a cool old diner. Top image is from February 2005 and the one below it is what it looks like inside now:

21-17 49th Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens, February 5, 2005

M. Wells Diner, 21-17 49th Avenue, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens

I always wanted to go inside the diner and never did.

We had just read Bill Buford’s Among The Thugs, so I was psyched to see Manchester United supporters with what appears to be an 18-pack of Bud in tow in the Grand Central-42nd Street Subway Station on the day of Man U’s pre-season match against the MSL Philadelphia Union franchise:

Underpass To Downtown 4 and 6 Train Platform, Grand Central-42nd Street Subway Station, Midtown Manhattan, July 21, 2010

Rockaway Taco is cool because of where it is, and makes you wonder whether the daily commute into Manhattan via the A train would be all that bad.

June 2010

Posted: November 29th, 2010 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens

St. Anthony of Giovinazzo Street Fair in Little Italy, Manhattan.

We finally got a critical mass of pictures for Tribeca Park in Lower Manhattan.

Maujer Street in the North Brooklyn Industrial Business Zone in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Motorino Pizza for lunch.

27th Street in Long Island City, Queens and 36th Avenue in Astoria/Long Island City.

We called what was going on at Madison Square “Barbecue Horizon” because of the two things going on there that weekend, and Old Town Bar was recently in the news because of its old urinals.

The 14th Street F-M-L-1-2-3 Subway Station had some confusion when routes and sign stickers changed.

Into July, just before leaving for Peru, the Play Me, I’m Yours pianos from Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City.

Memorial Day Weekend, 2010

Posted: November 8th, 2010 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Feed, Manhattan, Out Of Town, Queens

Friday, May 28, 2010

There’s a story behind the weird stuffed animal menagerie on the corner of Bedford Avenue and North 1st Street in Williamsburg:

Luis Rivera Corner, Bedford Avenue and North 1st Street, SE Corner, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, May 28, 2010

(See New York Shitty for more.)

We went to a keg party at the former Not For Tourists headquarters at 2 East Broadway. They had nice views of Chinatown and Lower Manhattan from the fourth floor there:

View of Chatham Square From Fourth Floor of 2 East Broadway, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan

Paul Grieco of Terroir is a hoot. He’s right about street fairs, by the way, and feels strongly enough about it to include a page of his thoughts regarding the subject in the establishment’s book-length menu:

Terroir, 24 Harrison Street, Tribeca, Lower Manhattan

At Lupa, you can learn how to say “employees must wash hands before returning to work” in Italian:

Employees Must Wash Hands, Lupa Osteria Romana, 170 Thompson Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, May 29, 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Mile End Deli in Boerum Hill has Montreal smoked meat almost as good as the stuff we tried in Canada back in February:

Smoked Meat Platter, Mile End Delicatessen, 97A Hoyt Street, Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

St. Agnes Church in Carroll Gardens. And the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Power House near the Gowanus Canal:

Brooklyn Rapid Transit Power House/Third Avenue Power Station, 323 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn

It’s weird how all power houses look similar. Here’s the IRT Power House on West 58th Street in Manhattan:

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, West 58th Street, Midtown Manhattan

And here’s the former Pennsylvania Railroad Generating Plant in Long Island City:

Schwartz Chemical Company Building (former Pennsylvania Railroad Generating Plant), 2nd Street between 50th and 51st Avenues, Hunters Point, Long Island City, Queens

The landmarked Coignet Stone Company Building at 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Brooklyn looks sad just sitting there all by itself:

New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building, 360 3rd Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn

Sunday, May 30, 2010

We took the train to the train station in Spring Lake, New Jersey, where we walked along the beach:

View From Pool Building, Spring Lake Beach, Spring Lake, New Jersey, May 30, 2010

Spring Lake Beach, Spring Lake, New Jersey, May 30, 2010

Spring Lake Beach, Spring Lake, New Jersey, May 30, 2010

Then we walked along 3rd Avenue in town there:

Bottle Shop of Spring Lake, 1400 3rd Avenue, Spring Lake, New Jersey

Monday, May 31, 2010

Stinky beans at Sripraphai in Woodside:

Sripraphai, 64-13 39th Avenue, Woodside, Queens, May 31, 2010

An I kind of can’t believe that Yankees-Mets mural from the 2000 World Series is still there under the LIRR overpass at 39th Avenue and 58th Street in Woodside:

Mets-Yankees 2000 World Series Welcome To Woodside Mural, LIRR Overpass, 39th Avenue and 58th Street, Woodside, Queens, May 31, 2010