Snow and other disasters
Category: WalksJust crossed the Queensboro bridge, and the snow on the pedestrian Walkway on the Queens side is pretty tricky. Will do Midtown and Hudson River park today, wind was...
Why it takes me forever and a day to upload photos
Category: WalksWhen I go out on walk, I’m not like professional photographers, who take good photographs after analyzing the angle and studying the area and pose. I’m pretty much a...
Mapping it through
Category: WalksI am, at heart, a map geek. I’ve loved detailed maps since I was a kid, and my map collection, somewhere in a storage bin in Miami, amounts to...
Queens’ smaller cemeteries
Category: WalksPer capita, Queens has more cemeteries than any other borough (although Staten Island is gaining ground with the Cemetery of the Resurrection). The larger ones like Calvary are fairly...
Riverdale to 42nd Street
Category: WalksI knew it wasn’t going to be pretty with all the ice, and in some spots it really wasn’t. Despite having a few close calls here and there, Tuesday’s...
Back to the Bronx
Category: WalksJanuary is probably the best time to photograph some of the estates in Riverdale, and that’s where I’m headed this morning. After spending most of the summer and the...
Why were all the bathrooms closed?
Category: WalksI have enough customer service experience to know that the difference between a reasonable request and coming across as a complete nut job could be quite thin. I don’t...
Jan. 2 walk, not as long but also not as bad
Category: WalksDid you know there was a bug in the iPhone which prevented one-time alarms to go off the first two days of 2011? I did, but thought it was...
Out there…Queens and Brooklyn
Category: WalksGoing out for a walk in this weather. I’m trying to avoid the accumulated snow. The streets are all plowed, but the sidewalks are still murder in some places....
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