December 9, 2024 11:00 am
Monday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
These archive posts are reaching into Newtown Pentacle’s backups, and are pulling posts that went public on this date, in their respective years, going back to 2009. This practice will continue until I’m back on both feet full time, and new photos and stories can be gathered. For anyone who hasn’t heard the news, I broke my left ankle at the end of September.
Further, as I predicted, the minute that the docs told me it’d be ok to start normal activities again – atmospheric temperatures dropped down into the 20’s, then it started snowing here in Pittsburgh, and the combination of all that resulted in leaving behind icy conditions.
No bueno, regarding the ankle and ice. Hopefully, this is the last week of archive posts, and next week new material should start showing up again.
Thanks for sticking with me during this trial, it’s meant a lot – the comments, views, etc. have definitely buoyed me up during dark times.
2013’s ‘uneasy voices’ detailed the scene as yet another one of the endless ‘Astoria Hullabloo’s’ set up just under my window when FDNY and NYPD suddenly appeared in large numbers on Broadway.
This sort of thing would occur at least once a month during the entire interval that I lived on Broadway’s corner of 44th street in Astoria. Yes, I lived directly over Gino’s Pizza. Zuzu the dog liked sleeping on the tile floor directly over their pizza oven, during the winter months.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Hey, that’s my shadow! You can see the outline of the street cassock filthy black raincoat and everything. Good times…
A standard ‘short walk’ I’d commit to at least once a week was to negotiate over to 39th street, at Northern Blvd., from Astoria, then walk past Sunnyside Yards and southwards up a shallow hill to Skillman Avenue. Skillman would then negotiate me across Queens Plaza and off the hill, slotting my feet into a path which led directly to the Degnon Terminal and the Dutch Kills tributary of Newtown Creek. There and back again was about 5-6 miles and a great short walk. Miss that route.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
I didn’t used to just walk south from Astoria, it was just the more interesting walk visually than the other way. Y’know… another favorite destination for a short walk was Luyster Creek on the northern side, but there were so many long stretches of just residential blocks, which are rumored to be full of humans. In some spots, there are positive infestations of the man-apes. Always did I avoid the crowds and congregations of the humans, given the changeability and capriciousness of their moods.
I love’s me a post industrial and often deserted waterway, I do. Throw in all of the fence hole POV’s at Sunnyside Yards… Dutch Kills won most of the time.
In 2015’s ‘known specie,’ your humble narrator found himself walking over to the forbidden northern shore of Queens via ‘Astoria, astoria.’
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