Little gifts we receive. And it's up to us photographers to capture them

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Queens: Long Island City

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Part of a sub-album titled: Shoe Cameo

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Note: Within the tags is the specific footwear being worn

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Before & After Construction

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Before & After Construction

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

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Jon Yung of My Architect had been the architect for this building. He's also the architect for 42-19 24th St @ Queens Plaza South, as well as a bunch of others I've photographed. Whenever you embark on an ongoing photo project, you inevitably connect a lot of dots along the way.

www.my-architect.com/

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Part of the album titled NYC Subway

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Before & After Construction

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Wolffkran (stylised as WOLFFKRAN) is a German-Swiss tower crane manufacturer and rental company. Founded in 1854 in Heilbronn, Germany, the company developed an early tower crane design in the early 20th century In 1913, the company received a gold medal at the Leipzig Trade Fair for its tower crane design. By the outbreak of World War II, Wolff had become a major manufacturer of medium and heavy tower cranes in the 40 to 150 metre range.

Headquartered in Baar, Switzerland, Wolffkran operates manufacturing facilities in Germany and maintains an international crane rental fleet. The company ranked seventh globally in the 2021 International Cranes and Specialized Transport Tower Index.

~ Wikipedia

Complete Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolffkran

WOLFFKRAN website: www.wolffkran.com/website/en/us

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23-10 Queens Plaza South / 42-19 24th Street

Before & After Construction

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Spring in the northern hemisphere launches on Thursday, March 20, 2025

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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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Part of the album Queens: Skillman Ave Greenstreets

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Manhattan: Flatiron District

I've always loved this building, as it has such a classic look to it. And over the years along my walks to/fro my office I've taken to photographing it.

This building was recently sold

Purchase date: 12/31/2025

Purchase price: $9,150,000

Original Year built: 1927

Included in the album titled: Queens: 35-10 Skillman Avenue - Before & After Construction

32nd Street always has a lot of flowering trees, shrubs, and it's always something to look forward to along my walk home each afternoon from my place of employment.

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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I had passed these two just this morning, each of us walking to our respective jobs over the Honeywell Street Bridge

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Queens: Honeywell Street Bridge (click to view that entire album)

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24-01 Queens Plaza North - Before/After Construction

I AM A RAINBOW TOO

Laminated glass artwork by artist Jeffrey Gibson

Read more about this artist here

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Part of the album titled NYC Subway

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Part of the album titled: Oh My Lord & Taylor

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Another workday concludes....

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Completed in 1917, the Queens Blvd viaduct runs for an eighth of a mile along the center of Queens Boulevard between 32nd Pl. and 47th Street. Its most defining feature is the hundreds of arches with a mysterious resonance that changes from the center of each arch to their edges; at points the echoes overlap, propelling the resonance back and forth between each arch — something that can only be experienced to believe. This Resonant Space is a NYC treasure.

From: Resonant Spaces (Click for further info)

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Queens: Sunnyside Queens Blvd

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My Favorite Parking Spot - 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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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

There's NO Parking on Sidewalks

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Newell's Run - Year of the City

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The New York Life Building is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company at 51 Madison Avenue in the Rose Hill and NoMad neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. The building, designed by Cass Gilbert, abuts Madison Square Park and occupies an entire city block bounded by Madison Avenue, Park Avenue South, and 26th and 27th Streets.

Designed in 1926 by Cass Gilbert, the New York Life Building was the last significant Gilbert skyscraper in Manhattan. The New York Life Building was also the last major insurance company "home office" to be built in New York City, and one of the few such structures remaining in the city.Its design was inspired by Salisbury Cathedral, although Gilbert also said that he took inspiration from some of his previous commissions, including 90 West Street and the Woolworth Building. The building was designed for the New York Life Insurance Company for three main reasons: to provide expansion space, as an investment, and as an icon.

Further info: New York Life Building

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Part of the album titled Queens: Astoria

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Out My Windows

This buildings name is Āsana, which is a Yoga body posture. These new buildings in my neighborhood must all get a tax write-off if they think up the dumbest name for their property

The bottom two floors–totaling 12,000 square feet– are set to be an Asian supermarket. My neighborhood is in desperate need of new supermarkets, so we'll take whatever we can get

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

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Little flower info & menu

little-flower.res-menu.com/#locations

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Jun 21, 2022

ASTORIA, QUEENS — For Ali Zaman, opening his own business was something of a far-off dream until last year, when a neighborhood landlord walked into his father's restaurant.

Ali, the 26-year-old son of the eponymous owner of Sami's Kabab House, learned that a storefront had become available on the corner of 36th Avenue and 28th Street — around the corner from his father's restaurant. The building owner wondered if the Zamans would be interested in expanding their beloved Afghan eatery.

Full article

patch.com/new-york/astoria-long-island-city/little-flower...

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Part of the album titled Queens: Astoria

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Queens: 45-11 23rd Street - Before/After Construction

It's no longer 24-19 Jackson Avenue. Instead, it's now 45-11 23rd Street. This frequently happens in construction

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New York Yimby, March 13, 2026

Construction is about to go vertical at 24-19 Jackson Avenue, a 55-story residential skyscraper in the Court Square section of Long Island City, Queens. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Charney Companies and Tavros Capital in partnership with Incoco Capital, the 676-foot-tall structure will yield 600 apartments and 10,000 square feet of retail space. The 18,000-square-foot property is bounded by 45th Avenue to the north, Jackson Avenue to the southeast, and 23rd Street to the west.

Full article: 55-Story Skyscraper Readies for Vertical Construction at 24-19 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens

Part of the album titled 45-11 23rd Street / Before & After Construction

Good morning, Nova

Nova Condos/41-05 29th St

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Façade: Pale Terracotta

86-units

25-stories

Architect: Fogarty Finger Architecture and Interiors

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Manhattan: Upper Eastside

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I see this quite often and it's just so peculiar

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Beam me up Scotty. Forget the shoes

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All of these stores are out of business

(Across the street from the old Walgreen's)

January 23, 2026

This photo of mine was picked up by Greater, Greater Washington and chosen as the feature photo to this article:

National links: Some people really mean “New York or Nowhere”

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Long Island City: Court Square

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23-15 44th Rd / Before & After Construction

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Manhattan: Flatiron District

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_and_Madison_Square_Park

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Newell's Run - Year of the City

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4th Floor Walk-up Penthouse Apartment

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NYC: Midtown Grand Central

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This afternoon it was cold and windy. NYC is one extreme to the next.

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25-01 Queens Plaza North / Before-After Construction

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Housing Lottery Launches for 37-42 30th Street in Astoria, Queens

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30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard

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Manhattan: Upper Eastside

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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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.

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An Upper East Side grocery store will soon expand into Queens for the first time in its 109-year history. Family-owned grocery store Butterfield Market has signed a lease for 10,055 square feet on the ground floor of Rise, a luxury rental residential building located at 29-17 40th Avenue @ 30th Street in Long Island City

www.butterfieldmarket.com/

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Queens: Dutch Kills

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Title: Winter

Artist: Jean Antoine Houdon (French, Versailles 1741–1828 Paris)

Date: 1787

Culture: French, Paris

Medium: Bronze

A frileuse is a woman subject to cold. A marble version (Musée Fabre, Montpellier), dated 1783, was originally intended as an allegory of Winter. For the Museum's bronze, cast by Houdon himself and coming from the collection of the duc d'Orléans, Houdon stripped the spiraling columnar composition to its bare essentials. The girl's tremulous flesh is offset by her tightly drawn shawl, elegant but hardly adequate.

www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/202614

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Manhattan: Upper Eastside

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29-15 40th Road, LIC / Before & After Construction

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Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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