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Queens

Queens is probably the one borough I got the least clear impression of, in part because none of the neighbourhoods I visited or glimpsed at — Astoria, Flushing, Long Island City, Jackson Heights and (maybe) Jamaica — seemed to have anything in common with one another (in fairness, they are across the far west and east of the borough). Queens is not quite Brooklyn and it’s not The Bronx. It remains, ultimately, the one Spider-Man is from.

Which is odd because, as I’m about to prove, the Green Goblin could get away with anything in Flushing Meadows.

All photos November 20th, 2017 except final one, November 24th, 2017.

The Queensboro Bridge, which is seemingly unavoidable if you’re anywhere near the East River and in Queens.

The Ravenswood Generating Station, viewed from Roosevelt Island.

Part of Jackson Heights as viewed from the 7 Local.

The approach to Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, with Circus Vazquez in the foreground.

Things you can run into in NYC without really trying: 1. halal food carts, 2. pizza places, 3. traffic, 4. baseball stadiums.

The boardwalk to the majority of Corona Park, off the subway.

This is how you know you’re about to enter one of America’s most well-known parks: there’s a vaguely Canadian-looking sign at the entrance.

The Unisphere is just three weeks’ walk away from the Gotham Plaza Entrance.

Reverse angle of the Unisphere, surrounded (at bottom) by one of the pieces in Ai Weiwei’s Good Fences Make Good Neighbours exhibition.

Observatory towers at the New York State Pavilion. Men in Black lied to us; these aren’t spaceships in any way, and even if they are, they’re the alien equivalent to old Lancias.

The actual pavilion.

The Queens Theatre — closed that day, because everything on Long Island seems to treat Monday and Tuesday as a weekend.

Freedom of the Human Spirit by Marshall Fredericks. The freedom of the human spirit involves loss of clothes and also swans, obviously.

The Arthur Ashe Stadium, where tennis happens.

Mr. Put-an-Expressway-Through-It himself, rendered in mosaic form by Andy Warhol.

Salvador Dali’s rendition of Venus, or perhaps a mermaid with the word ‘Venus’ underneath it.

The Fountain of the Planets is approximately 0.3 light years away from this mosaic of it.

Flushing itself, as viewed from the 7 line.

Flushing, as viewed from the subway exit. You can’t really get any further east than this, so anything of interest in Glen Oaks is forever out of reach.

Some sort of pork wrap, a matcha cheesecake, and sweetened soymilk.

The Fay Da Bakery in Queens.

View of Flushing, including the overhead subway line.

Street in Astoria.

Kaufman Astoria studios, which seemed to be closed like everything else that day. Beyond the gate is the only studio backlot in New York City.

The studio building itself.

The Queensboro Bridge as viewed from Long Island City.

One Court Square, aka Citigroup Building; 200m high, and the tallest tower on Long Island.

Long Island City in the foreground, Midtown in the distance.

Street view, Long Island City.

New library under construction.

Pier at Gantry Plaza State Park.

The gantries, which are much more visible in daylight. Or earlier in the evening.

The park and Long Island City.

The park was originally the end point of the Long Island Rail Road; this three metres of track represents how this park alone still has better public transport than most of the UK.

The Pepsi-Cola sign was designated a landmark in 2016. The top half of the “e” isn’t fading in or out; it apparently doesn’t work.

You could email, but that’d be free, and no-one would feel the personal touch of the illegible scrawl your handwriting has devolved into from years of computer use.

Expressway in Queens, heading to JFK.

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