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30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard -
Before & After Construction
I 've been told somewhere behind that hill lies the San Andreas fault. There are quite a bit of crazy rock formations in this canyon near the town Mecca, CA. I need to come back here to explore a bit more. We made a short cut through this rugged canyon to the Salton Sea from Joshua Tree NP. The canyon itself is quite unique reminding me of the landscape in Death Valley.
Got a great deal on Madame Butterfly during its Black Friday sale. It turned out to be a tragic story. But I liked the venue and performance.
Giulia Cenci
secondary forest
April 2024 – March 2025
Location
On The High Line at 24th Street
Giulia Cenci creates elaborate sculptures and installations by fusing industrial elements and organic forms, arranging them into jarring compositions that invite viewers to question human’s relationship with nature. Cenci’s work features animals, plants, and human appendages cast from melted-down scrap metal, reusing found objects, agricultural tools, old machinery, and car parts. These seemingly disparate elements are then hung, suspended, or pierced together like pieces of meat, morphing into a wild habitat void of hierarchy—where a human bone is treated with the same care as the branch of a tree or a wolf’s face.
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THE HIGH LINE: ART - Giulia Cenci
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Manhattan: High Line (West Side) - Click to View
Housing Lottery Launches for 37-42 30th Street in Astoria, Queens
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Prognosis confirmed 14 days after biopsy, and I've certainly learned a plethora of pertinent information within that short span of time. Plus, I've already established my personal support team. Typically I don't waste time on anything. I just do it. And if I make a mistake, I don't hesitate, as I will fix it along the way. Life is too short to be inefficient.
I've been referred onto an Oncologist (cancer doctor)
I'm not afraid. More so, I'm curious. I've a lot of faith in modern medicine
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Newell's Run - Year of the City
BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION
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Coming Soon, a 40 story tower
Further info on 42-19 24th Street
23-10 Queens Plaza South aka Opus Point
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23-10 Queens Plaza South / 42-19 24th Street
Before & After Construction
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This is a dual album as these two major construction projects are situated just across 24th street @ Queens Plaza South from one another
Some neighbor in Alamo, CA has a huge backyard filled with statues of animals like this. This particular sheep caught my attention as it looked comical, not that I would want to own one like this for my sleeping aid.
Once a month for brunch I have a spinach omelet. But I hardly ever have hash browns. And my bread intake is very limited these days.
If you have a NYC Transit reflective vest, you can seemingly park anywhere for free in all of NYC. Seems to also work for construction workers' vests/placards
Who's to say these people even work for NYC Transit, or in construction for that matter. Apparently it works, as I walk to/fro my place of employment every day and see this all the time
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The Sunnyside Train Yard, Queens, NYC is comprised of 180 acres (72.8 hectares), which is 6x the footprint of Hudson Yards, 2x the size of Battery Park City, and 30 acres larger than Roosevelt Island. As with the other yards (Atlantic & Hudson), Sunnyside is also slated to have a platform constructed above it, so as to further erect buildings and roads atop that. For several years now major realtors have been building properties around the perimeter of the Sunnyside Yard. They're all like vultures, waiting on the kill.
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This afternoon I made it mid-span of the Honeywell Street bridge when the heavens opened up and a wall of water came pouring down and didn't let up until I arrived back home, a mile later. It was wonderful
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There's NO Parking on Sidewalks
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The UBB aka Unending Building Boom has been slowly suffocating everything in its intensity. And still, they continue to build. This photo was taken from atop the Honeywell Street bridge which spans across the Sunnyside Train Yard. In time a platform will be constructed above the yard, and 180 acres (73 hectares) of railway land will be transformed into the next New York City
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Reunion Tower viewed from the Frank Crowley Courts Building looking east.
Dallas, Texas. January 23, 2023.
Samsung Galaxy S20 FE 5G.
5.4mm. f1.8 @ 1/2210 sec. ISO 40.
I had drive to downtown Dallas to serve jury duty this day. KN
Shai-Hulud. There is no spoon.
This afternoon I had spoken these words aloud, oblivious to whether anyone was in earshot, just before I ascended this last set of staircases at the Ditmartian Land (Ditmars Blvd) subway station.
Shai-Hulud is from Frank Herbert's novel DUNE. And was the Fremen term for the sandworm of Arrakis, a fictional extraterrestrial creature.
The phrase "there is no spoon" from the movie The Matrix suggests that reality is an illusion and that limitations exist only if we believe in them. It emphasizes the idea that understanding and perception can change our experience of reality.
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My chemotherapy treatments, now concluded since early October, afflicted me with CIPN (Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy), which has left my feet and ankles swollen and numb. I have been working remotely, as well as convalescing. Walking has been extremely challenging for me, and I have been staying home. Though I had begun slowly doing stretching exercises. These next two weeks I am on vacation. For what that's worth. Last week the numbness in my feet changed and moved toward the front of my feet. So now my feet are half numb. I'll take it!
Today had been a milestone, as I was able to ascend the 4 staircases of the nearby elevated subway station, ride the train 4 stops, pick up some meds, get a flu shot and return the same way. Next, I went to the Supermarket, then picked up some deliveries from the Amazon locker in my lobby. After which I needed to walk upstairs to my 4th floor walk-up penthouse apartment. It was certainly all a lot, though it was so worth it, and I felt amazing. It tired me out, though I will rest and push myself again another day soon. Lotta 4's today
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In numerology, the number 4 is associated with traits like discipline, punctuality, and practicality. It is often referred to as the "struggling number" due to its connection with persistence and the tendency to face delays in achieving goals.
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'For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.'
PLATO 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher
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Newell's Run - Year of the City
Pretty, just don't touch it. The flowers are poisonous to people and the leaves, upon touch, can produce Contact Dermatitis, just like poison ivy.
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Growing to 10 meters (33 feet), it is a vigorous, deciduous woody vine, notable for its showy trumpet-shaped flowers. It inhabits woodlands and riverbanks, and is also a popular garden plant.
C. radicans is a vine that climbs on trees, other plants, or structures or trails along the ground. From the main vine, rigid or woody arching vines up to 2 meters (7 feet) long extend outward. The plant can form a dense groundcover or an aggressive liana covering plants or buildings. The leaves are opposite and odd-pinnately compound, meaning there is an odd number of leaflets, with one terminal leaflet.
C. radicans climbs through aerial rootlets and twining stems; these stems grow upwards of 12 m in length. Its bark is tan in color, and shreds easily.
Further info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campsis_radicans
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Morning walk through Astoria. It felt good. Though I cannot go too far, as my feet and ankles are still afflicted with neuropathy (my feet are both numb and swollen; my ankles swollen). Strange shit. This a direct side effect from the Kemosabe Liquid Sunshine. My last cycle was on October 2nd. And the healing will just take time and I am just going to have to be patient. I've no other choice. Morning's are the best time for short walks. And I just have to stick with them, as I am confident that in time they will help.
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Crain's New York Business, March 7, 2024
Midtown-based Fisher Bros. has parted ways with a Long Island City site where it once hoped to build a 240-unit project.
The real estate firm has sold 42-50 24th St. to developer Chris Xu's United Construction & Development for $57.5 million, property records show. The deal will add to Xu's already substantial portfolio of Queens projects.
The Hakim Organization and Property Markets Group bought the site in 2015 for $69 million, and the real estate website New York YIMBY published renderings of a 74-story tower planned for the address in 2018. However, in 2019 Fisher Bros. prefiled plans for a 35-story project at the site that would span about 255,000 square feet with 240 residential units, 40,000 square feet of commercial space and a hotel.
"Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death"
~ Rosalind Russell as Mame Dennis / Auntie Mame (1958)
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Sunday afternoon, March 29, 2026
Today, at long last, I once again began my Sunday afternoon walks. They had become a tradition of mine, to venture out on a mid-Sunday afternoon, rain or shine, and take a long walk through either Astoria, Long Island City or even to Sunnyside. And arriving back home around 5pm I'd prepare an early dinner. I've been enjoying these walks going on now for 5 years. The walks helped me not think of cigarettes and smoking, as well as alcohol and drinking. I'm nicotine free almost 5 years, and alcohol free 4 1/2.
In mid-July 2025 I could still go on my weekly walks, which had kind of surprised me, as beginning early last June up until early October I had undergone chemotherapy treatments. I felt positive about the entire experience, and would continue going into my office each day, a mere 25 minutes walk from my apartment.
Little did I know what was coming down the pike, as my out-to-lunch medical team never once mentioned how side effects were cumulative, and following my 4th treatment on Thursday, August 7th, I felt as if I had been run over by a train and I could barely walk and needed to work remotely for the next 4 1/2 months. In January 2026 I began going into my office one day per week. In February, two days. March, three days. The three in-person days will remain until I am strong enough to add additional days.
This afternoon, able and cane in hand, and laden down with several large tote bags of Amazon returns (It's me, whatever) I rode the subway 3 stops up to Astoria Boulevard and Staples. That finally accomplished, I proceeded to walk home 1.5 miles. About midway I began growing tired, though I wouldn't trade any part of it.
This coming Thursday, April 2nd, marks the 6th month since my last treatment. I'm still afflicted with neuropathy, nerve damage, which is a long-term chemotherapy side effect. Never once mentioned by my OTL medical team. They're useless. The swelling of my ankles and feet is ever so slowly dissipating and my toes are still numb. Stairs are still a challenge for me. Heck, I live in a 4th floor walk-up penthouse apartment.
All of that aside, I feel good. I will though require long-term alternative medical care for quite sometime. But it's not the end of the world. Come August I shall turn 64. Incredible all of the stuff I've managed to accomplish in that small window of time.
Pictured is one of my two canes. This one, no doubt, is the show stopper every time. Forever keeping it classy
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The Romantic is the upcoming fourth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars and his fifth overall, scheduled to be released by Atlantic Records on February 27, 2026. It is set to be his first album since the collaborative project An Evening with Silk Sonic (2021) with American singer and rapper Anderson. Paak as Silk Sonic, and his first solo release since 24K Magic (2016). The lead single, "I Just Might", was released on January 9, 2026, debuted at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. A concert tour in support of the album, The Romantic Tour, is set to take place from April to October 2026, consisting of 71 shows across North America and Europe.
Further info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Romantic_(album)
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Part of the album titled Queens: Astoria
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