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gangrenous glare

- photo by Mitch Waxman Just a short one today, as your humble narrator has recently been laid low by some unknown virus for the last week, and frankly- all I can manage in this state of epidemic...

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nothing useful

- photo by Mitch Waxman Observed, recently along the Boulevard of Death, this cool set of wheels. Obviously, loved and kept in a state of functional restoration, this atavist vehicle caught my eye....

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concealed fires

- photo by Mitch Waxman A few interesting photos adorn today’s posting, progeny of the prodigious amount of exploration a humble narrator has been occupied with for the last couple of weeks. There are...

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marble and porphyry

- photo by Mitch Waxman Crazed by heat and a lack of slumber, one nevertheless must continue the never ending walking of the earth and incessant inspection of relict districts, as such activity is...

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Project Firebox 61

“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Out of order is what the sign says, with instructions to instead call 911 or some other specialized number for the Queens Fire...

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irresistibly borne

“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman A few more shots from the low light photography exercise I’ve been forcing myself to perform all winter. Couldn’t believe my eyes when...

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groping again

“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Perhaps one has become an internet troll. I do spend an awful lot of time scuttling around beneath bridges and overhead trusses of all...

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decided agitation

“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Fear that I’ve let you down today is inescapable, as the 2013 tour schedule (long promised) is still not quite ready for public review...

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tunnel under

Today’s post depicts twilit scenery in Western Queens. - photo by Mitch Waxman One of my winter projects continues, which is called by the ineluctably unimaginative name “operation: night shooting.”...

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forced economies

Today, we pass through a crossroad. - photo by Mitch Waxman One of the things I find endlessly fascinating about Western Queens is the juxtapose between at least three different urban planning schemes...

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Project Firebox 82

An ongoing catalog of New York’s endangered Fireboxes. - photo by Mitch Waxman If a job description involved the term “Boulevard of Death,” the reticence of prospective employees toward accepting the...

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broad slab

In today’s post, the night terrors. - photo by Mitch Waxman Perambulating through the fuligin night, across the cracked ambitions of Western Queens, recently did your humble narrator find his lonely...

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regular pulsations

In today’s post, more cast off clothing. - photo by Mitch Waxman Whilst enacting my seemingly penitential and quite obligatory weekly walk to Greenpoint, this time for a Newtown Creek CAG meeting last...

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Project Firebox 102

An ongoing catalog of New York’s endangered Fireboxes. - photo by Mitch Waxman Perpetual darkness is the lot of this lonely firebox, found over on the outskirts of Woodside. Apartment monoliths on one...

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by surprise

Cool atmospherics in Sunnyside. - photo by Mitch Waxman One of those periodic blasts of duty has been upon me for the last week or so, a lot to do with little time to do it, and the rain last week...

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nervous element

Cutting up Queens Blvd. in today’s post. - photo by Mitch Waxman Bigger and quite a bit badder than the masonry saw witnessed in last week’s posting “dusk comes,” your humble narrator recently spotted...

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saucily cocked

The boulevard of death. - photo by Mitch Waxman Queens Boulevard has the single greatest appellation of any street in New York City – the “Boulevard of Death.” The thoroughfare has earned its nom de...

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elder worlds

From Woodside - photo by Mitch Waxman A hand painted seal, signifying the “Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States” organization, as observed in the Woodside section of Queens, NYC. “follow” me...

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all pantheons

Hey, youse, whatcha taking pixchas of? Comere, ahlls gis yes someting to take pixchas of right heres… - photo by Mitch Waxman The first time that a camera was used as a weapon of war, not for...

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bleak plateau

In the Cold Wastes. - photo by Mitch Waxman The sporadic intervals during which one has been “out and about” in February have been infrequent, but somewhat entertaining. Just last weekend, when a short...

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