Scenes Of Queens: And Now A Word From Our Slumlord Mercenary Sponsor…

This heinous predatory advertisement is hanging, or more appropriately and ironically squatting rent free on the railing of the abandoned Rockaway Rail Line on Atlantic Avenue in Ozone Park. This enterprise probably and presumably illegally hung this up here assuming that the eviction moratorium will expire on schedule on the new year. What kind of … Continue reading Scenes Of Queens: And Now A Word From Our Slumlord Mercenary Sponsor…

OBVIOUSLY KNOWN And SCENES FROM QUEENS: Two New Photo Series On People, Places And Things In New York City

In the last four years keeping this blog afloat and building a modest social media following while having been the proud owner of about 5 or 6 cellphones, I've amassed a sizeable collection of photos of places, people and things that caught my eye and captured an indelible moment worthy of immortality and a massive … Continue reading OBVIOUSLY KNOWN And SCENES FROM QUEENS: Two New Photo Series On People, Places And Things In New York City

Jamaica Avenue’s Million Dollar Pit Of Despair And Graffiti

  Richmond Hill, Queens, New York On the day after the six-alarm fire that destroyed the homes above storefronts in Richmond Hill and taking pics of the charred windows on the buildings, strolling about 8 blocks east by Lefferts Blvd. there exists this unsightly gated wall protruding on the sidewalk next to a barber shop … Continue reading Jamaica Avenue’s Million Dollar Pit Of Despair And Graffiti

New Bad Days 79: Former City Hall Aide Gets Mugged In The Subway And Is Shocked About It As Crime On Mass Transit Inclines And As Mentally Ill Men Push People On The Tracks In Consecutive Days; Two Dead Babies Left To Rot In An Alley;Two Women Get Struck By Stray Bullets From Gang Related Shootings; An Abusive Husband And A Fugitive Both Die Respectably In Shootouts With The NYPD And U.S. Marshals; Endangered Parking Spaces On Open Streets Are Devolving Into Street Fights; Gun Toting Thug Robs And Terrorizes Woman And Her Small Business And Child Twice; Gun Runners Get Caught In The Act After One Of Them Complains About A Baby Getting Killed; NYPD Continues Overdeployments Of Political Protests As A Bartender Declares His Bar An Autonomous Zone And Defends It By Running Over A NYC Sheriff’s Deputy Gets Kid Gloves Treatment As Gang Related And Individual Gun Violence Rises 101%

Manhattan In the West Village and Greenwich Village, cops arrested 57 people who were protesting on the street as the presidential election results were being tabulated. Fires were being set on the road and in garbage cans. One woman punched a cop in the face and another woman spit in another cops face and got … Continue reading New Bad Days 79: Former City Hall Aide Gets Mugged In The Subway And Is Shocked About It As Crime On Mass Transit Inclines And As Mentally Ill Men Push People On The Tracks In Consecutive Days; Two Dead Babies Left To Rot In An Alley;Two Women Get Struck By Stray Bullets From Gang Related Shootings; An Abusive Husband And A Fugitive Both Die Respectably In Shootouts With The NYPD And U.S. Marshals; Endangered Parking Spaces On Open Streets Are Devolving Into Street Fights; Gun Toting Thug Robs And Terrorizes Woman And Her Small Business And Child Twice; Gun Runners Get Caught In The Act After One Of Them Complains About A Baby Getting Killed; NYPD Continues Overdeployments Of Political Protests As A Bartender Declares His Bar An Autonomous Zone And Defends It By Running Over A NYC Sheriff’s Deputy Gets Kid Gloves Treatment As Gang Related And Individual Gun Violence Rises 101%

Housing Inequity, Death And Tax Breaks: A Tale Of Two Queens Areas

Thanksgiving, the symbolic holiday where all beings partake in communal gratitude and partake in sharing of the bountiful harvest of food and shelter. But on the east and west sides of Queens, it's a theory that's as good as dead. An apartment building at The Astoria Houses are currently without gas and tenants have been … Continue reading Housing Inequity, Death And Tax Breaks: A Tale Of Two Queens Areas