Part of the album:

Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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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 29th. The owners claim 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 concrete

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This photo is part of the overall album titled

Queens: 31-05 Astoria Blvd North - Before & After Construction

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Part of the album:

Queens: Long Island City, Queens Blvd

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112525: D-53 requires a refill

This morning I logged onto my pharmacy website and the refill required pre-approval from my Oncologist's office, whom I sent a message to straightaway and she responded in kind not long thereafter.

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Upon first meeting my medical team back in March 2025, I showed up to the consultation with a notebook in hand, as well as a printed list of questions, with check boxes and space for answers. I had one copy for myself, as well as additional copies for any others, of which there were a total of 3. The Oncologist remarked how I was so organized.

The messaging system at that hospital, that's a great record of mine. And they've grown to appreciate my writings. This is my life. And I have to make certain of everything.

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An executive assistant (EA) provides high-level administrative support to senior executives to help them stay organized and productive. Their duties include managing calendars, scheduling meetings, booking travel, and handling correspondence. EAs often also manage special projects, handle sensitive information, and act as a point of contact for other staff or external partners, playing a crucial role in an executive's efficiency and daily operations.

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Newell's Run - Year of the City

Walking home from my office. Thankfully the days are beginning to grow lighter in the late afternoon's

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Part of the album:

Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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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

newyorkyimby.com/2025/06/updated-design-revealed-for-561-...

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Part of the album:

30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard

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Part of the album:

31-28 Northern Blvd / Before & After Construction

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They're constructing yet another public storage building on Northern Blvd. As for the other two, I have never seen anyone, ever, go inside either one. And I walk past this area twice per day.

Part of the album titled

37-12 31st Street / Before & After Construction

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I've not seen any abandoned shoes in quite awhile. I suppose even the aliens that abduct people, though leaves their shoes behind, need to take a vacation every now and then.

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Beam me up Scotty. Forget the shoes

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Included in the album titled

Queens: Long Island City

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This photo is part of the overall album titled

Long Island City: Court Square

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This was taken along my walk home this afternoon on the Honeywell Street bridge. Ginger ain't that yellow...Honeywell should be renamed as Honey Well, or Urine Well for that matter.

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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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Part of the album titled

Manhattan: Flatiron District

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Included in the album titled: 4th floor walk-up Penthouse apartment

Part of the album:

Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. is a German professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German football league system

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eintracht_Frankfurt

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This photo is included in the album titled: Big Bus New York

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I needed to figure out some way for the Infusion Center nurses to have full access to my arms, while still maintaining warmth, as it's so cold in there.

And I wouldn't expect anything less from myself

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This photo is included in the album titled:

Newell's Run - Year of the City

Part of the album titled

Manhattan: Upper Eastside

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I just never thought I would ever go through anything like this. My 6 treatments (cycles) of Kemosabe Liquid Sunshine concluded in early October and I am presently convalescing from peripheral neuropathy, nerve damage of my feet. Which are healing slowly. And my hair has also begun to regrow. I have been working remotely and am scheduled to return to work in early January. Initially I had been going into work following each treatment, until I reached cycle #4 in early August, after which the side effects hit me like a sledgehammer, as no one had informed me how side effects are cumulative.

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There exists a societal stigma with regards to cancer, which silently stipulates how people are not supposed to speak of nor acknowledge it. Yeah, well, you know what I say to that? Go Fuck Yourself. No one tells me what to do with my creativity.

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l'artiste Photographe

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Newell's Run - Year of the City

BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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

Further info on 42-19 24th Street

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

Part of the album:

Queens: Long Island City, Queens Blvd

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included in the album titled:

Manhattan: Kips Bay

BEFORE & AFTER CONSTRUCTION

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Today I was the epitome of laziness and instead of walking 24-minutes to my office, I opted to take the train roundtrip. Sometimes it's good to see what's going on above ground

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

Part of the album titled

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

Before & After Construction

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UBB = Unending Building Boom

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

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New Rendering Revealed For 29-15 40th Road in Long Island City, Queens

newyorkyimby.com/2024/04/new-rendering-revealed-for-29-15...

A new rendering has been revealed for 29-15 40th Road, an upcoming 12-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens. Few details have been made public about the project, which is being designed by Fogarty Finger Architects and developed by SB Development, which also acquired the adjacent lot at 29-13 40th Road for $8.7 million last fall.

My Kemosabe Liquid Sunshine treatments began in early June 2025, though in early May I had my hair buzzed down, then shaven weekly. This way I was ready. Then my head hair stopped growing, as did my facial hair. Yet my eyebrows and eyelashes remained, if not thinner. I've actually had my head shaven previously, so I was good with it. Then I began purchasing blue blocker glasses, so as to interrupt the visual. Many people commented on my variety of glasses, though never on the fact that I didn't have hair.

I don't need glasses, I can see 20/20. Had had cataract surgery last Summer

This photo is included in the album titled:

Newell's Run - Year of the City

Included in the album: Queens: Astoria

Included in the album titled:

Out My Windows

Part of the album titled

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This photo is part of the overall album titled

Thomson Avenue, Long Island City

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Read The Fascinating Origins of Pumpkin Carving: From Ancient Legends to Modern Halloween Tradition

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Part of the album: Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Part of the album titled: Self-Portraiture

Northern I and II - Construction Completed

Part of the album

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

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Part of the album:

Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Part of the album: Manhattan: Lincoln Square

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Part of the album

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

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Nothing yet on this one, the Janovic Paint building, though the blue and white Pinnacle Realty signs are a telltale indication something's coming down the pike. Those signs are plastered everywhere around Long Island City/Astoria

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Part of the album titled Queens: 30-35 Thomson Avenue

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:

30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard

Before & After Construction

Part of the album titled Queens: Astoria

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The building that houses Pete's was built in 1829, and was originally the Portman Hotel; liquor may have been sold there as early as 1851 or 1852 – when it was a "grocery & grog" store – and the first official drinking establishment founded by 1864. It was bought in 1899 by Tom and John Healy, and became Healy's. During prohibition, when selling alcohol was illegal, the bar continued to operate disguised as a flower shop.

The writer O. Henry lived down the street at 55 Irving Place from 1903 to 1907, and Healy's appears in his short story "The Lost Blend" under the name "Kenealy's". Local legend also has it that he wrote his well-known story "The Gift of the Magi" in Healy's second booth from the front, but this appears to be apocryphal.

Although the tavern claims to be "an official historical landmark", it is neither a designated New York City landmark nor is it on the National Register of Historic Places. It does, however, lie within the Gramercy Park Historic District designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966. Gary Egan is proprietor of Pete's Tavern and has been General Manager of the restaurant for over 30 years.

~ Wikipedia

Further info Pete's Tavern

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This photo is part of the album titled:

Manhattan: Gramercy

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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

This one thing, this soon to open new Starbucks location is the catalyst and so significant to this little area of Long Island City, as it's setting the stage for the ongoing building boom that will soon expand into this region. Both exciting and frightening.

Included in my Flickr album titled:

The Packard Motor Building, 32-02 Queens Blvd

The Packard Motor Building website

Included in the album titled

Queens: Sunnyside Queens Blvd

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The clock tower building looks great. It's been spruced up

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The Long Island City Clock Tower building had been constructed in 1927 by the Manhattan Company, a holding company that in 1955 merged with the Chase National Bank to create the Chase Manhattan Bank. For more than 60-years, the clock tower building had been the tallest commercial building in Queens at 14-stories. Until it was surpassed in 1990 by other structures, the building with the clock towered over the Queensborough Bridge and the elevated Flushing and Astoria subway lines running next to it.

In 2014, the Long Island City Clock Tower was purchased by developers and using land and air rights from the clock tower, as well as air rights from an adjacent lot owned by and purchased from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a 71-story residential tower, Sven, was constructed by the Durst Organization, and opened in March 2022.

Working with the Landmarks Preservation Commission, the Durst Organization hired a team of architects to restore the neo-Gothic clock tower building and its dilapidated glass and cast-iron clock faces. Those leading the project sought to swap the damaged frosted glass panels with a type of acrylic and replace the cast iron dials with aluminum—durable materials that can endure years in the elements.

The brown-brick landmark, with its castellated clocktower turret, will eventually be repurposed into a commercial and retail space.

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

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30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard -

Before & After Construction

This photo is included in the album:

30-25 Queens Blvd / 29-10 Northern Boulevard

Before & After Construction

Photo #1 of 3

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Part of the album:

Walk/Commute to/fro Work

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Life in the Big City. It's certainly not boring. Last July an electrical outlet in my living room randomly lost power. That outlet connects to a conduit which runs up the wall in a corner of my living room, across the edge of the ceiling in a zigzag formation and connects to an electrical box. So, in July I needed to inform my Super, as well as my Landlord, and ultimately request for any work to be held off until at least December, as I was at that time presently undergoing Kemosabe Liquid Sunshine (Chemo) treatments. And the last thing I needed was dust. I'm so grateful to have a professional Landlord, who agreed to hold off any work until I was feeling better. That was # 1

As I continue to heal from the Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN) and return to some form of normalcy, so too, it would seem, how the rest of my life is collectively following along. 😄

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* An executive assistant (EA) provides high-level administrative support to senior executives to help them stay organized and productive. Their duties include managing calendars, scheduling meetings, booking travel, and handling correspondence. EAs often also manage special projects, handle sensitive information, and act as a point of contact for other staff or external partners, playing a crucial role in an executive's efficiency and daily operations.

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Newell's Run - Year of the City

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Discarded Street Items/Trash/Litter

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This photo is part of the overall album titled

A New City Rises

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The Sunnyside Train Yard at 180-acres is comprised of more than 6x the land area of Hudson Yards' 28-acres, and the vultures have been circling

edc.nyc/project/sunnyside-yard

Part of the album titled Queens: Astoria

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