Soulful

After visiting PS1 in Long Island City, I biked around a bit.

LIC is a mixture of the really old and new.  Only four retractable bridges remain in the United States.  Borden Avenue Bridge is one of them, operated by this pulley.

The view from Hunters Point railroad station has changed dramatically since I caught the train there to Sayville while working at the NYC Health Department.

If you want to be by your corporeal self during the pandemic, visit a cemetery.  More people are interred at Calvary (around 3 million) than any other burial ground in the United States.  It must get pretty congested on All Soul's Day!

How many cemeteries in the world have such spectacular backdrops?  That's the newish Kosciuszko Bridge, held aloft by bright orange cables that I first saw from the Long Island Expressway.  It spans Newton Creek, connecting Woodside, Queens to Maspeth, Brooklyn. Cavalry falls in both boroughs.

Still, the mammoth cemetery retains a pastoral feel.  Get a load of my Steadicam on this video.

The late afternoon light was wrong to photograph the imposing chapel.  Jesus, arms outspread, towers above it and can be seen throughout the 365 rolling acres.

Few of the tombs are as elaborate as those I photographed at Woodlawn, but there's still plenty of beauty to be found.

Religious figures crowd the grounds as you might expect in a Catholic cemetery.   Quite a few mobsters rest eternally beneath them, too.

Forgive the irreverence, but this looks like a chorus line of Hail Mary's!

I passed some more secular work biking back to Manhattan.  "Sunbather" by Ohad Meromi on Jackson Avenue.  She's a controversial figure in the neighborhood.

Good old Karl.  We shared a birthday.  May he rest in peace.