Slideshow of the Week: Rockaway (Queens)

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One Day Near Calvary Cemetery

A man came off the footbridge near Calvary Cemetery and was standing next to the Long Island Expressway. Someone there who saw him said he was disoriented. Cars were flying by and the noise was deafening. He kept muttering something about “Triangle Fifty Four” and going to see his cousin, who lived near there.






He had been discharged from a mental hospital the day before and was going to talk to his cousin about staying with him temporarily.


His cousin said he never showed up. His wallet was found on a grassy knoll beside the highway.

Astoria Waterfront

Luyster Creek





Baseball field next to power plant (Google Maps)



Overgrown baseball field next to power plant

Sewage treatment plant near the Steinway piano factory

Turbines at plant, close-up (see tops of cylinders in previous Google satellite photo)

Houdini’s Grave (Queens)

Machpelah Cemetery, Queens

St. John’s Cemetery (Queens)

Ghost Train (Derelict Tracks)

30th St. & Hunters Point. Ave., Queens (Google Satellite Map)

Five minutes behind me: St. Raphael’s church on Greenpoint Avenue

Look: it’s a smokestack half inside of a building.






Abandoned train tracks between two factory buildings (right off Dutch Kills).