Tagged With: Queens
#FriFotos: Bridges
Text & Photo: Julie Schwietert Collazo ** We’ve been on a bit of a renaming spree in New York during the past four or five years, as streets, buildings, and stadiums shed their original names and take on new identities, often for a price. Seeing Mets Stadium become CitiField was enough of a bummer, but … Continue reading
Overlooked New York: Flushing Freedom Trail
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Photos: Francisco Collazo ** The problem with history is that there’s so much of it, we’re constantly losing it. How can we possibly keep up with all we’ve built, thought, and created? I feel both amazed (look how much we’ve done) and saddened (look how much we’ve forgotten or never known, … Continue reading
Overlooked New York: Louis Armstrong’s House
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Photo: wallyg (via Flickr, under a Creative Commons license) ** Corona, the neighborhood where Louis Armstrong lived, is like a lot of harder-to-reach, just-far-enough-out-of-the-way outer-boro neighborhoods, which is to say: a bit down on its heels. The benefit? There are actual homes here, unlike the more densely constructed neighborhoods where people … Continue reading
5 Spots for Spectacular Sunsets in NYC
Text: Julie Schwietert Collazo Photos: See individual credits ** Looking for a place to see the New York City sunset without a horde of people surrounding you? Here are five places where you can find peace and quiet as the sun slips into its nighttime resting place. Louis Valentino Jr. Park & Pier, Red Hook, … Continue reading
Virgin of the Clouds Procession/Virgen de las Nubes
Text, Photos, and Video: Francisco Collazo Translation: Julie Schwietert Collazo [vease abajo para la version en espanol] ** I’d never heard of of this virgin or her story… not that I’m an expert on the subject, but living in different parts of Latin America, you get to know about many of the virgins, and never … Continue reading
