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Giulia Cenci
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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.
Further info:
THE HIGH LINE: ART - Giulia Cenci
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Included in the album titled
Manhattan: High Line (West Side) - Click to View
Housing Lottery Launches for 37-42 30th Street in Astoria, Queens
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Part of the album 37-42 30th Street / Before & After Construction
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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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Part of the album titled
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
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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Part of the album titled
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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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Included in the album titled: CURB YOUR VEHICLE (There's no free parking on Sidewalks) (Click to view)
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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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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This photo is part of the album titled: FLORA
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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.
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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This photo is part of the overall album titled
Long Island City: Court Square
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The first incarnation of the lollipop was probably invented by our cave-dwelling ancestors, who collected honey from beehives with sticks. In order to not waste any of the sweet nectar they had collected, these cavepeople probably ended up licking the sticks, perhaps creating the earliest form of the lollipop.
Historians and archaeologists believe that many ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians, Arabians and the Chinese used to preserve fruits, nuts and other confections by covering them with honey. Sticks were inserted in these concoctions to make them easier to eat and keep your hands from getting all sticky. This practical invention is so simple that historians believe the lollipop could have been invented and reinvented numerous times throughout the course of human history.
Further info on The History of the Giant Lollipop
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Part of the album titled NYC Subway
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Over the course of the past 4 1/2 years, I have been photographing this same corner plot. Something will happen, eventually.
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Part of the album titled:
32-35 Queens Boulevard / Before & 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 in 2026.
"Samba" can refer to several things, primarily a Brazilian music and dance style, but also a popular adidas shoe and a software for file and print services.
In Brazil, samba is a vibrant and rhythmic genre of music with African roots, deeply embedded in the nation's culture.
The Adidas Samba is a classic sneaker known for its retro design and versatility.
Additionally,
Samba is also the name of open-source software that allows computers running Linux and Unix-like systems to interact with Windows file and print services.
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This photo is part of the overall album titled
Thomson Avenue, Long Island City
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This photo is included in the album titled Bus Stop Advertisements (click to view that entire album)
included in the album titled: Manhattan: Kips Bay
Included in the album titled:
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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Part of the album titled
23-10 Queens Plaza South / 42-19 24th Street
Before & After Construction
(click to view the entire album)
This is a dual album as these two major construction projects are situated just across 24th street @ Queens Plaza South from one another
Further info/details:
Metropolitan Life North Building
Part of the album titled
Manhattan: Flatiron District
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For the past 8 years I've been taking photos of this view, which is now blocked by a new building. The unending building boom of Long Island City, NY continues, and is slowly sealing us all in. 97 pictures take you on a journey.
Part of the album:
29-15 40th Road, LIC / Before & After Construction
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My route to work on many a morning's
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This photo is part of the overall album titled
Queens: Honeywell Street Bridge (click to view that entire album)
Year built: 1959
Purchase date: 07/03/2025
Purchase price: $11,009,125
Here's the design for the upcoming new building. I really like it
www.caliendoarchitects.com/project-gallery/31-05-astoria-...
History of the site:
After 40 years in business the Neptune Diner located in Astoria, Queens, NYC served its last meal on Sunday, July 29. 2024. The owners claimed they were not given a chance to renew their lease, because the property will soon be turned into a residential building.
Since 1983, The Katsihtis brothers have owned the building on Astoria Boulevard but not the land, which was sold in 2018 for over $10 million.
The brothers also had a 35-year lease which expired in 2019. But since then, they were not able to come to a long-term agreement with the landlord.
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But that's what Long Island City/Astoria needs is another apartment building. It's already so overbuilt, it's ridiculous. Yet they keep tearing them down and building new ones, many of which are luxury rentals. The neighborhood is losing its character to steel and glass.
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This photo is part of the overall album titled
Queens: 31-05 Astoria Blvd North - Before & After Construction
"I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world."
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William Tarr’s 1974 weathering Cor-Ten steel black sculpture stands atop the plaza of Martin Luther King Jr. High School down the street from Lincoln Center on the Upper West Side at 66th and Amsterdam. All four sides of this cube include important dates in the life of the civil rights leader as well as famous quotes.
The cube is also covered with lots of cryptic initials. BTWHS/MC/CTS/BU is a list of his schools: Booker T. Washington High School, Morehouse College, Crozer Theological School and Boston University. SCLC/MIA are the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Montgomery Improvement Association. On another side are the initials of his family: CSK is Coretta Scott King, and and a block with his four children: Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter King and Bernice King. ‘RDA stands for the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy; ‘JJ for the Rev. Jesse Jackson and ‘BR for Bayard Rustin. Among the dates in his life are 12/10/64, for his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize and 4/4/68 for the date of his assassination.
“Let us be dissatisfied until every man can have food and material necessities for his body, culture and education for his mind, freedom and human dignity for his sprit.”
Decoding the Upper West Side’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Sculpture - Click to read this fascinating article
About the Artist:
William (Bill) Tarr (1925 – 2006) was a sculptor, painter, photographer, magician, bestselling author, husband, father, and dedicated artist for over 50 years. His monumental public works have been seen by millions from all over the world, and his 30 x 30 x 30 ft. welded steel memorial to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King is perhaps New York City’s most renowned public work. Yet, Bill remains relatively unknown.
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Part of the album: Manhattan: Lincoln Square
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"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life" – Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde’s famous quote suggests that art shapes our perception of reality more than reality shapes art. Rather than merely reflecting life, art actively influences how we see, interpret, and experience the world, guiding our emotions, behaviors, and even societal norms.
- Socratic Method
Part of the album titled NYC Subway