Astoria architecture
Oh, Astoria. Someone just had to have something a little different. But, you know, I kinda like it.
Oh, Astoria. Someone just had to have something a little different. But, you know, I kinda like it.
Patisserie Pistache opened this morning in Astoria, Queens. It’s just north of Ditmars Boulevard on 35th Street—behind the yet-to-open Francis Cafe. The croissants are pretty legit. Comparable to those I’ve had in Paris. They also serve almond croissants and little tarts and such. Not a huge selection this morning, but maybe they’re starting slowly. It [...]
Claire and I had dinner at the Queens Kickshaw for the first time last night. Preliminary report: great stuff. But what I want to draw your attention to is the fact that they have sparkling water on tap there — and it’s free.
To say that this is not the most glamorous Date Night would be an understatement, but Claire had a craving for Mexican. We tossed around the idea of doing Taco Night at home with a box-taco mix, but we were slow getting out of the house. So down to the local Chinese Mexican place we [...]
I know Christmas is over, and New Year’s is already a thing of the past, but I liked this Christmas scene in the lobby of the Citibank building in Long Island City. Very corporate.
The Space Between: New Camera, originally uploaded by Adam Kuban. This is the first “Space Between” photo taken with our new Canon S90. It’s a great little camera.
It’s a question I asked just today on Facebook and was pleased to get an answer within minutes. From the New York Times‘s Christopher Gray in a March 1987 Cityscape story: The Queens Terra-Cotta building, built in 1892 as the first structure solely for offices of the growing concern, was designed by Francis H. Kimball, [...]
I must seem like a beginning photography student, taking all these pictures of corrugated sheet metal. What can I say? I like the colors.
I usually don’t include pictures of friends or family in my "365 Photos" series because to do so means I have to make them public. But that proscription means that I have to leave out some great photos that often sum up the day. This one, of my longtime friends Charlie and Jeff, was too [...]