Tag Archives: Queens Plaza

Intentionally Wasted

This is the giant, empty gravel lot of the Gotham building on Queens Plaza which now holds NYC’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.  I do not know why they decided to not use any of the property outside of the building to help beautify a very unbeautiful part of New York, but I think it would be good for everyone’s mental state to throw some trees and shrubs and maybe a fountain or two or dare I say, a park bench to sit on while you wait thirty minutes for a B62 bus to show up during rush hour.  Perhaps one day.

Rhinestone Cowgirl

Queens Plaza during my morning commute is a very different place at night, when it’s filled with ex-cons, undercover cops, strip club regulars and other seedy folks.

Come a little closer..

Now who the hell wears rhinestone bras and how the hell did it wind up on the other side of this fence?

Kinda reminds me of the choice goodies I have found over the past year. There was the dumpster bra find and don’t forget the infamous pot of gold!!

 

Business / Class

From Queens Plaza

Office Tower

As far as I know, this building in Queens Plaza has no other name other than 29-27 Queens Plaza North.  It was built in 1926 and hovers over the subway tracks with iconographic prestige. Anyone know anything else about this structure?

25 Of My Favorite Urban Abstractions of 2011

I’m always looking for interesting abstract images created from every day life in this fine city of New York. Here are 25 of my favorite ones that I took in 2011. The picture above is just rain-soaked newspaper fround on a Manhattan sidewalk.

Spilled and dried latex paint from a Brooklyn sidewalk.

Eagle Street, Greenpoint landscape.

Ikea parking lot, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The Laboratory.

Sidewalk on the Lower East Side.

McGolrick Park lit up while filming for Boardwalk Empire.

Weathered advertising on Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

From under the Pulaski Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Building exterior close-up in London, England.

Rooftop gardening junk.

A wall on East 60th Street, Manhattan.

From Norman Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The ole Q60 buses that shuttle people across the Queensboro Bridge.

South Williamsburg street pattern.

Rectangular stones on a beach in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Cardboard on Manhattan Avenue.

An aged sign on Clay Street, Greenpoint.

A door on Devoe Street, Brooklyn.

A beautiful wall on Oak Street, Greenpoint.

Unintended assemblage art created with utilitarian interests in Red Hook.

Fire escape shadows on Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint.

Construction debris on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg.

From a facade being restored in Union Square, New York.

A partly cloudy reflection on the Gotham building on Queens Plaza.

Queens Sunrise

Queens Plaza at around 7AM looking East.

Queensapalaza XII: More Gotham

A crisp October morning on Queens Blvd at 28th Street, home of the new Gotham Building and now home to the New York City Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Queensapalaza X : High On Queens

A view of Queens Plaza from the elevated walkway to the train station on a rainy weekday morning.

 

Queensapalaza V: Skeleton Frame

This structure has been at Queens Plaza at Jackson Avenue for quite a while.  Maybe an advertisement used to go here? I don’t know.  I think it’s beautiful just the way it is and shouldn’t be changed ever.

Queensapalaza

To get to work, I take buses from Greenpoint to the Queensborough Bridge and then I walk briefly across an 8 lane rush hour construction site not unlike being inside of the game of Frogger.  And then a bus to Manhattan.  Queens Plaza always looks trashed, like an all day summer concert passed through it every night. But so, they’re re-building it with Obama money I suppose. But it’s very hard to imagine this place ever looking nice, since it’s also full of ex-cons, speed freaks, cops and strippers every night. Here’s some current pictures of the mess that a cement guy told me will be complete by mid-Summer 2011. Uh-huh.