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LIC being increasingly modelled and mapped

Noticed while browsing around inside Google Earth that Long Island City is being increasingly modelled, even more-so than Greenpoint or Williamsburg, which is interesting because you know, LIC is...

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new espresso bar in LIC – at Queens Plaza South

Tracking development around Queens Plaza, 3 days ago a new espresso bar that also serves specialty bagels and paninis, opened at Queens Plaza South – ironically, it opened on the same street as...

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more Long Island City reporting; $9.99; with @flux_factory, @momaps1, Local...

With a focus on art galleries and studios, it’s NYC Gov’s NYC Media series $9.99 exploring Long Island City – there’s also a stop by burger joints, Dutch Kills bar, and other passing sights. Obviously...

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Meanwhile, in Fort Totten Park

So fun.a quick jog n get on with ur business. What does that even mean? The other “review” of the park is equally unhelpful: “It is a gem….nyc park…secured cz itz cntrld by us army…” Interactive map...

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See this wasteland at Queens Plaza North. Guess how much? Go on, I dare ya!

A 40,000 sq. ft. plot that is zoned to accommodate a 320,000 sq. ft. of residential development at 41-50 24th Street, which has been an empty dustbowl for as long as I can remember. Well it recently...

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LIC Green – block by block by block

Shown in the sequence they were taken, each of these places is within a block of the previous location, showing the diversity of hidden private, visible private, and private personal spaces. A weed...

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A Tank on the Queensboro

What Christopher Nolan means when he says he went to “Manhattan” is “we drove a tank over the Queensboro, and then were like ‘oh hell no!’ turned around and went back to Manhattan.”

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World Maker Faire 2012 press roundup

So much awesome and incredible press came in before, during, and after 2012′s 3rd annual World Maker Faire. Such an epic event, I’m seeing things reported that I didn’t even see in person! … Let’s...

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It’s Very #Sandy in the Rockaways

I’m headed out to the Rockaways this weekend, by bike from Long Island City – if anybody wants to caravan down there. I plan on stopping in Broad Channel along the way to survey and see what’s needed...

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Where Once There Was Dirt, Now, Money

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Rockaway Park, after-hours

Love. This. Fog. Imagine this light glaring in through your windows at 4AM. Even super-nice condo buildings are blowing out drywall at the 4-foot mark.

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A curious thing, that IIII

photo by Mitch Waxman A curious thing about the clocktower at Queens Plaza that I’ve never noticed before, not until I was up inside it last night, is that the roman numeral for the number 4 is actual...

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Locost Queue link and behind-the-scenes

Read more about this public art project here. Locost Queue is on view every evening from dusk to midnight through March 13, 2013, located here in Queens, NYC. Take the N/Q/7 subways to Queensboro...

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Seen in Queens: Steinway Pianos Factory Tour

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Crime in Queens – better move to Brooklyn

So let’s get this straight: the rent is cheaper, the food is better, there’s more cultural diversity, aaaaand there’s less crime in Queens. Fascinating.

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there really is no place like Home

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“The Ed Koch” bridge hereby renamed “Miss Misty Magnificent”*

*during times of snowfall:

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inside the new Queens Museum

click to embiggen: a proper write-up and review of the expansion coming soon. for now, pano.

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M train PSA

in case you weren’t aware: Props to Sue Funke for one of the best ‘wtf? ftw!’ videos of recent memory:

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#MardiGras in Queens

it was fun:

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Need tires? Come to Queens!

Thanks Josh for the tip. http://www.nicknormal.com/normalblog/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/queenstires.mp4

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forever resistant to hipsterification

Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Hipsters will never colonize this place, thank sweet zombie jesus. Why? 1.) It’s in Queens. As if that isn’t enough, 2.) It’s “too far” out in Queens. 7 Express stops?...

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all that “outer borough” graff you admire

was the work of a Queens native: Giuseppe “Don1″ Palattella is the subject of a new book out by Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro titled Don1, the King from Queens: The Life and Photos of a NYC Transit Graffiti...

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The Timeline of Gentr’arts’ification*

I recently caught wind of the newly minted Kaufman Arts District and I must say I’m pleasantly displeased. This isn’t a curmudgeon’s rant, or a snarky finger-pointing diatribe, but a serious...

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it’ll always be a plot of dirt to me

see it in Maps here.

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How else to build New New York but upon the rubble of the old one?

OK OK the title is hyperbole – clickbait! But the Landmarks Preservation Committee is about to remove nearly 100 sites from their “calendared” list of structures, sites, and buildings. While it doesn’t...

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Long Island City, then and now | #hotelification #LIC #QNS #NYC

The conditions that made the property “desirable” as in “cheap” for those with financial backing is now being whitewashed and replaced with something all too different. AKA: Becomes: Here’s a Street...

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Why is @googlemaps (mobile app) so incredibly useless these days?

(Originally drafted 2014-12-12 after attending an event in Ridgewood, Queens) The default zoom level of your destination and surrounding area doesn’t indicate the names of any of the surrounding...

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#Queensspotting – it’s a new game, let’s play | #QNSboro

Challenge is to find trail of the great borough of Queens elsewhere in the world. For instance here’s a mural paying homage to Jam Master Jay (born in Brooklyn, moved to Hollis where he acquired...

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oldest footage of NYC includes building of the Queensboro Bridge | #QNSboro

Your browser does not support the video tag. The recently un-earthed “oldest footage” of New York City (that means all five boroughs people) includes shots of the construction of the Queensboro Bridge,...

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Modern Ruin screening May 22nd | #QNSboro

Matthew Silva’s documentary “Modern Ruin” will be screened at the Queens Theater in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park on Friday, May 22nd. I’m a Kickstarter backer so no need to pay to see it when I’ll...

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Imagining a 77 Story Clocktower in Long Island City | #QNSboro

A bunch of big media blogs and papers[1] have employed this dirt outline trope you see above. The “hey look we Google Maps Earth smart!” shots are combined with a story about the recent application by...

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Queens is Radioactive

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A film director, neuroscientist, and Queens rapper walk into a bar |...

From executive producer and rapper Nasir “Nas” Jones and journalist-turned-filmmaker Adam Sjöberg, Shake the Dust chronicles the influence of breakdancing, exploring how it strikes a resonant chord in...

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#IronMan just flew over my house | #QNSboro

When Iron Man is away and comes back to town, he prefers to fly in over the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge en route back to the Tony Stark building in Midtown. And doing so means he passes within sight of...

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Street Tree Census for the borough of Queens | #QNSboro #census #maps #NYC...

In typical NYC fashion the available data is equally concerned with the adjacent building number, but the open data contains valuable info like species, diameter, along with a “condit”ion rating; some...

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Before the #QNSboro Bridge, the Outer Borough was Mostly Farm Animals and Mud

At least, that’s the suggestion of this photo’s caption, showing the 1907-building of the only bridge that both Iron Man and Batman have been associated with: The opening of the Queensborough Bridge in...

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On Salt Marshes, Sand Dunes, and Jamaica Bay in #QNSboro

Because nearly 1/3 of New York City is waterways, and Jamaica Bay is a place that surprises non-NYers who think the entire place is a concrete jungle, when in fact part of NYC is a wildlife reserve....

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drawing Long Island City | #QNSboro

DNAinfo have released an interactive tool to allow readers to draw outlines of their ill-defined NYC neighborhoods, to crowdsource – and compare & contrast – where readers think their neighborhood...

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Surging Seas shows 1ft of rising seas flood the NYC shoreline, 10ft engulfs it

Surging Seas maps the coastal United States with current rising sea level data. What happens next will terrify you. A simple slider shows how 1-to-10 feet in rising sea levels would effect the coastal...

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6 days before @5PointzNYC was whitewashed, this video was taken

What begins with a simple panning swoop-shot quickly goes haywire and becomes a frame-by-frame walkthrough of the former “graffiti mecca” known as 5 Pointz. The video gives a pretty detailed glimpse...

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#DeliveringPerfect … from behind barbed wire fence

This place confuses me. A lot. I honestly thought I was looking at the wrong website when I was comparing their copy to the image I took of the exterior of their Queens facility (below). Here’s some of...

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John Wick: When things go wrong, they go wrong in Long Island City | #QNSboro

John Wick: After taking his wife off life support in the opening scenes, funeral services are held in some cemetery with sweeping views of the NYC (primarily Manhattan) skyline: The observant eye will...

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A Lazy Afternoon in Queens

Just another boring day in the outer borough:

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another movie, another Long Island City reference shot | #QNSboro

In the 2008 flick Punisher: War Zone there’s a lot of shot-scene trickery going on. The film clearly ‘takes place’ in NYC, with opening shots of the Empire State Building and George Washington bridge...

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City Shortsightedness: the Problem is that the #BQX Doesn’t Go Far Enough

And Once Again #QNSboro Gets Screwed I don’t get it. Proponents and Opponents should be up in arms about this. But once again everything is so feverishly selfish and political that no one thinks about...

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To Be an Artist (in NYC) in Search of an Affordable Studio

Sitting in one of the rooms at the Queens Museum in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is a finely crafted ‘ride flat’ wooden crate. It is longer and wider than it is tall, raised on black plastic milk...

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that #QNSboro Streeteasy subway ad

I love staring at this ad on the subway platform. It really does a good job of summing up #QNSboro, and I almost always find something new in it to look at and ponder – including a few things I don’t...

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views in and around MT Olivet Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens

While en route to Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens for an event I decided to buffer my journey with an extra 90 minutes or so, to give myself time to venture to a new cemetery; I’m finding...

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Qveens Borovgh Flag Flowers Craft Shirt

Found a pack of I-can-only-imagine-how-old “FabricFun” pastel dye sticks — the pack contained limited colors and I was inclined to not use the black at all, instead wanting to stick with the actual...

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