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Discarded Street Items/Trash/Litter

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After almost an entire year, this project is starting up again thanks to new funding

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8:00 am on June 30, 2025

Updated Design Revealed for 561-Unit Skyscraper at 30-25 Queens Boulevard in Long Island City, Queens

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30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard

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BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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Further info on 42-19 24th Street

Further info on 23-10 Queens Plaza South aka Opus Point

This is a dual album as these two major construction projects are situated just across 24th street @ Queens Plaza South from one another

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Beam me up Scotty. Forget the shoes

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38-27 32nd St and 38-38 32nd St / Before & After Construction

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That additional street sign, Jodie Lane, is in memory of that young woman who lived in this area and had been out walking her dogs one January day back in 2004, when she stepped on an electrified ConEd box, right there on the street, and was instantly electrocuted. Miss Lane had been a Columbia University grad student.

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Artist Elle Street Art for the LISA Project

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“Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks. That means don’t do it just for yourself. You will want to leave the world a little better for your having lived.”

~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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NYC: East Village

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Discarded Street Items/Trash/Litter

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Queens: Long Island City

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would smell as sweet."

~ Romeo & Juliet

by William Shakespeare

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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30-71 29th St, Astoria / Before & After Construction - Click to view

www.spartagourmet.com/

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Aviation High School, officially named Aviation Career & Technical Education High School, is a public high school owned and operated by the New York City Department of Education. Formerly known as the Manhattan School of Aviation Trades (SAT), Aviation High School has operated since 1936.

It is in the Long Island City neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens. The school accepts students from all five boroughs according to the NYC screened school process. The main focus of the school is to train licensed Federal Aviation Administration airframe and powerplant technicians.

An airframe license certifies mechanics to work on the aircraft body while a powerplant license certifies them to work on the engine.

School motto:

"Where Dreams Take Flight!"

Further info: Aviation Career & Technical Education High School

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Part of the album 37-42 30th Street / Before & After Construction

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My neighborhood desperately needs additional supermarkets and for the past several years now there's been a huge influx of Asian citizens moving into the area. Whoever's responsible for constructing this Asian-centric supermarket is going to make a fortune

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Eight Story Complex Including Big Asian Supermarket Proposed for 38th Avenue in Dutch Kills

The development is expected to be eight stories tall and go up on 38th Avenue between 30th Street and Old Ridge Road. The top six floors would be for apartments, while the bottom two floors–totaling 12,000 square feet– to be set aside for an Asian supermarket.

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Discarded Street Items/Trash/Litter

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Beam me up Scotty. Forget the shoes

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Part of the album 45-07 45th St / Before & After Construction

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I love how the Sven building reflects the sky.

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Queens: Long Island City

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I see this quite often along my walks to/from my office, though mostly with cinched filled baggies. The fine for public urination must be more than littering, though with the baggies and this bottle, it should be a double penalty

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In New York City, public urination is a civil offense, not a criminal offense, and is covered by Section 16-118 of the Administrative Code. First-time offenders can receive a fine of up to $75, with subsequent offenses within 12 months resulting in fines of $250–$350 for a second offense and $350–$450 for a third offense. Offenders will receive a civil ticket instead of a criminal summons and will not have a criminal record if found guilty. Administrative courts may also require offenders to perform community service.

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Urinetown (click to view)

"With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and seventy." ~ Jack Nicholson

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Discarded Street Items/Trash/Litter

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Queens: Sunnyside Gardens

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Part of the album titled Queens: Astoria

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It's just a little outcrop of paradise within the concrete jungle

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Part of the album Queens: Skillman Ave Greenstreets

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The Greenstreets program converts paved, vacant traffic islands, and medians into green spaces filled with trees, shrubs, and groundcover in an effort to capture stormwater.

The program is a part of the NYC Green Infrastructure Plan. All funding for Greenstreet construction under this plan is administered by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

Green Infrastructure

www.nycgovparks.org/greening/green-infrastructure

There's NO Parking on Sidewalks

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It's so out of control. And some are placing their neon construction vests on the dashboard as proof they can just randomly do as they please, and are seemingly getting away with it. These vehicles are never towed.

What if a disabled person needed to get past?

Or a citizen in a wheelchair for that matter?

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There's NO Parking on Sidewalks

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It's so out of control. And some are placing their neon construction vests on the dashboard as proof they can just randomly do as they please, and are seemingly getting away with it. These vehicles are never towed.

What if a disabled person needed to get past?

Or a citizen in a wheelchair for that matter?

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It's just a little outcrop of paradise within the concrete jungle

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Part of the album Queens: Skillman Ave Greenstreets

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The Greenstreets program converts paved, vacant traffic islands, and medians into green spaces filled with trees, shrubs, and groundcover in an effort to capture stormwater.

The program is a part of the NYC Green Infrastructure Plan. All funding for Greenstreet construction under this plan is administered by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

Green Infrastructure

www.nycgovparks.org/greening/green-infrastructure

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My Favorite Parking Spot - Click to View

After almost an entire year, this project is starting up again thanks to new funding

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8:00 am on June 30, 2025

Updated Design Revealed for 561-Unit Skyscraper at 30-25 Queens Boulevard in Long Island City, Queens

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30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard

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Everything

~ by Srikanth Reddy

She was watching the solar eclipse

through a piece of broken bottle

& he folded his map of the sea.

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Srikanth Reddy (born 1973) is an Indian American writer, scholar, and author of three full-length volumes of poetry. His awards include a 2013 NEA fellowship, a 2013 Creative Capital Award, and a 2018 Guggenheim fellowship. Reddy delivered the Bagley Wright Lectures in Poetry in fall 2015, and served as a judge for the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Here Is a video of Srikanth Reddy reading his poem

EVERYTHING

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History of New York City's Poetry in Motion (excerpt)

Inspired by a similar program in London, Poetry in Motion was launched by MTA New York City Transit in 1992. From the beginning, works for series were selected by representatives from the MTA and the Poetry Society of America. The first four poems to appear were "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by Walt Whitman, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" by Emily Dickinson, "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats, and "Let There Be New Flowering" by Lucille Clifton.

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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2023 has been a great year for me, and next year aims to be even better, as last January I returned to Flickr, after having taken a very long hiatus of 16-years from it and photography, and it's such an amazing feeling to be back at it all. And I realize how much I've missed it

61 and fabulous. Happy New Year!

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32-35 Queens Boulevard / B4-After Construction

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This plot was to have been a 17 story hotel, though as with many sites there was either a stop work order, or the deal fell through completely.

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I feel how this section of Long Island City is on the brink of blasting off on the super sonic gentrification rocket, as the LIC BID expanded into this area, and the building pace will increase significantly by Spring 2025. Just a hunch. Of all things, there's a new Starbucks on the strip, across Queens Blvd from this site. The Starbucks is the catalyst...

Ready Mix

The more you know

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Ready mix concrete is concrete that is manufactured in a batch plant and delivered to the job site ready to use. It is ideal for large patios, driveway renovation, pool decks, home foundation slabs, parking lots, and new sidewalk construction.

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Beam me up Scotty. Forget the shoes

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Personally, I loathe bananas.

But still, why the crime scene tape? Maybe Halloween.

In very bad taste

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This one has been sitting as is for the longest and has become an eyesore for my neighborhood

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32ND Street btwn 36th/37th Aves - Click to View

Secretariat had also been the name of a famous, champion American thoroughbred racehorse, nicknamed 'Big Red', who sired another famous racehorse by the name of "General Assembly".

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) is the main policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations, and is situated in a building adjacent to the Secretariat.

This info may come in handy on Jeopardy

The flowers of many hydrangea act as natural pH indicators, sporting blue flowers when the soil is acidic and pink ones when the soil is alkaline.

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Hydrangea commonly named the hortensia, is a genus of more than 70 species of flowering plants native to Asia and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Korea, and Japan.

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Hydrangea is derived from Greek and means ‘water vessel’ (from ὕδωρ húdōr "water" + ἄγγος ángos or ἀγγεῖον angeîon "vessel"),in reference to the shape of its seed capsules.

The earlier name, Hortensia, is a Latinised version of the French given name Hortense, honoring French astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Hortense Lepaute. Philibert Commerson attempted to name the flower Lepautia or Peautia after Lepaute. However, the flower's accepted name later became Hortensia. This led to people believing Lepaute's name was Hortense, but the Larousse remarks that this is erroneous, and that the name probably came from hortus, garden.

~ Wikipedia

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NYC: Midtown Grand Central

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Queens: Long Island City

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Further info

Wisteria Pergola At The Mall in Central Park

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Manhattan: Central Park

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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38-15 Queens Boulevard / Before & After Construction

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