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Happy Birthday Mr. Moses
- photo by Mitch Waxman The great builder, Robert Moses was built himself on this date in 1888. A controversial subject amongst the preservationist community, Moses nevertheless shaped the City of...
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with palpitant heart
- photo by Mitch Waxman Startlingly interesting is the only way to describe the experiences of the preceding year. Attempts have been made to cogently describe and colorfully illustrate the encounters...
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feeble horns
Hell Gate and Triborough bridges from Old Astoria – photo by Mitch Waxman Loathsome memories of recent setbacks- and also of certain rebuffs- plague your humble narrator during these gloomy and...
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vast enclosure
- photo by Mitch Waxman When you cut things down to the bone, and ask yourself the question “Who was the New Yorker that most profoundly changed the City?” it always comes back to one fellow. Ray...
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drifting sands
- photo by Mitch Waxman Your humble narrator speaks from a deep cavern, a lonely chasm of sorrowful legacies and charred ambition. This is no happy place of wonder, instead a frozen waste and...
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approaching triumph
Infrastructure pornography, gratuitous and forbidding, in today’s post. Also, I’ll be at Brooklyn Brainery on February 27th presenting “the Newtown Creek Magic Lantern Show.” - photo by Mitch Waxman...
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bleeding hands
Astoria flava. - photo by Mitch Waxman Spotted this painting nearby Welling Court in old Astoria, part of a vast installation of murals and street art that adorns the industrial walls of an ancient...
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dropped despairingly
Wandering, always wandering, with no place to go. Stay paranoid, I say. - photo by Mitch Waxman The steady staccato of foot falls is all that one can really count on, a shuffling rhythm accompanied by...
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resting and brooding
Contemplative perambulations, in today’s post. – photo by Mitch Waxman Mighty Triborough, as observed from the elevated Subway station on 31st street here in Astoria. One will admit that the depression...
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staggered dizzily
Sights from a recent East River excursion, in today’s post. – photo by Mitch Waxman One does not get to view Mighty Triborough from the water that often, although the Astoria Park perspective on Robert...
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upon all
Triborough and Hells Gate. – photo by Mitch Waxman As mentioned, one is taking a short break – hence the singular image which greets you above. Back soon with new stuff. “follow” me on Twitter-...
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uncertain factors
Wash out, man, wash out. – photo by Mitch Waxman You’ll recall that at the end of February, there was a Götterdämmerung of a rain storm, one which produced quite a bit of coastal flooding. I got a...
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half smile
Happy Birthday, Triborough Bridge, you’re now an Octogenarian. – photo by Mitch Waxman Triborough Bridge, aka Robert F Kennedy Bridge, in Astoria, Queens opened on this day in 1936. It was 80 years ago...
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proferred food
Boredom, self hatred, and megalomaniacal fantasy – in today’s post. – photo by Mitch Waxman Possessed of a somewhat solitary and depressive personality type, a humble narrator is often forced to lurch...
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clean shaven
Getting around town, in today’s post. – photo by Mitch Waxman The wheel of the year is about to turn again, and the particular station we are in – what the Pagan crowd would call “Lughnasadh” – is...
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ascending node
It’s National Creampuff day, here in these United States. – photo by Mitch Waxman Christmastoria exemplified is how I describe the shot above. An early entrant into my Astoria Tumbleweeds category,...
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flaming thing
It’s Tag des Deutschen Apfels (German Apples) day in the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. – photo by Mitch Waxman The bright passage, it’s a not unlikely spot to find a group of cultists dropping a bizarre...
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risible talisman
It’s National Blueberry Muffin Day, in these United States. – photo by Mitch Waxman July 11th, 1936. That’s the day that the Triborough Bridge was dedicated and opened for business. The favorite child...
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swam curiously
From Hells Gate. – photo by Mitch Waxman Whilst wiggling about and adjusting the camera settings to capture the image above, a humble narrator was photographed by the occupants of a passing minivan...
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popular opinions
Darkness and cold, it’s all darkness and cold. – photo by Mitch Waxman So far this week we’ve established a few things – the physical dimensions of a size 18 EEEEEE male foot, that Astoria’s 31st...
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