Posts Tagged ‘Long Island City’
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
En route back home from work, did a bike tour of areas nearby. Some new condos going up, some economies of scale, a new way to park your truck, and the light yesterday was incredible – clear blue with a slight pink or yellow tint coming from the horizon, cold in the shade but intensely warm in the sun.
I also encountered this gem of a hoarding – I’m still perplexed about the whole thing, the pigs, the flying pigs, the lone tree, the underwater-ness of the blue. But it’s an amazing use of the paneled plywood, and I’d love to see more hoardings – if they have to be there – take this approach:
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
In that order, from left to right, these windows grace one of the exits of the Hunters Point station (7 train) in LIC. I love how each “window” is a unique layout of bricks, and especially how the Burgers window is just a bunch of bricks crammed into a hole!
Saturday, April 30th, 2011
I love green. It’s my “other” favorite color. Today’s festivities around Long Island City and Astoria, Queens, also featured lots of green – which I didn’t even notice until much later in the day when I was reviewing my shots. In order of appearance:
Easter Egg Hunt at Gantry Plaza State Park – less of a hunt, and more like a stampede!
9th annual Kite Flight at Socrates Sculpture Park – even the tape is green!
Kite Flight in action – a good windy day indeed
container garden in Astoria
probably my favorite domicile in all of Astoria, this house property goes all the way through from block to block, with a huge “backyard” garden and cobblestone driveway
green garage door – it was painted after the windows were filled in with plywood
lots of places in Queens with this rough growth – not the best light, I’ll be back!
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
Long Island City is afforded many wonderful views. The now-landmarked Pepsi Cola sign. sits in front of East Coast 7. You can see the area immediately around the sign’s base and behind it for about a block is still being constructed, and full of trailers. There is plenty of construction immediately north of East Coast 7 – which hopefully will be the end of this development craze (not likely) which has been many years in the making. All gentrification issues aside, the State Gantry Park is nicely landscaped these days…
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Spotted during another one of my many tours of this wonderful town and borough!
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
[FULL set on my Flickr]
In between a couple meetings yesterday in Sunnyside and Woodside, I took some time to stroll through those neighborhoods, as well as skirt along Sunnyside Gardens, and stroll through Blissville – yes, there is a neighborhood called Blissville in New York City! Not to be boxed into the area only around the first four stops on the 7 train in Queens, I still consider all of these neighborhoods part of the “greater LIC” – I won’t go into why that makes sense to me now, but it’s all part of an ongoing series, and will be detailed someday. For now, enjoy the vantages, the juxtaposition of commercial and residential, and a peek at some of the best-kept secrets in all of NYC:
Okay maybe not the “best” kept secret, this is a Queens prison. A “correctional facility” as they say. I don’t think I ever noticed this building before, even though it’s the only thing at the intersection – it is kind of designed to not-be-noticed after all.
backyards, deli counters, and never-changed-since-the-1990s era comic book stores are abundant in these areas:
lovely stained glass art at the subway stations along the 7:
when you get off those trains, you’re afforded with some wonderful sweeping skies, and magnificent views of Queens and beyond, including but not limited to top of the Chrysler Building, parts of Times Square, you can see the Queensboro Bridge almost head-on here, and even Big Allis off to the right:
This epitomizes LIC to me, a very quaint residential domicile just blocks away from a heavily commercial, industrial district:
Personally I love these architectural juxtapositions. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a post-industrial city, in a home but I yearned for industry, or maybe because to me it just makes sense to have work and life in the same district.
And of course cutie houses, faux alleys, shopping by the pound, and more hidden streets that never get walked on:
