This is my first time actually uploading my videos from my Smartphone to Google then over to YouTube. Please bear with me while I perfect my photography/video craft. In the meantime please enjoy the videos of riding the J Subway Train from Broadway Junction in Brooklyn, the overhead views and across the Williamsburg Bridge.
This former B&B looks like it is having a Basquiat moment! Jean-Michel Basquiat would be highly amused!!
Discarded Ornament
Has Keanu Reeves (actor) turned into a Hip-Hop Kitty Cat? Or has he just lent his voice to this crazy looking movie? Who knows? I have never and will never try to get Sylvester to wear anything other than his Tuxedo Greatness!!
This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything. The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs. And give me a pingback.
Today I was in my old neighborhood “Funkin’ For Jamaica!! Dig it!!
Tom Browne – Funkin’ For Jamaica
After visiting my brother Stephen at his training center AABR I went for a walk down memory land along Jamaica Avenue and Merrick Blvd. in Jamaica, Queens.
This is where I grew up and walking the streets brings back many fond growing up memories. Lots of studying and research at the Queens Public Library on Merrick Blvd. I also cut class. A Lot. Spending my time at the Library!! LOL!! 🙂 However once my Dad Edward G. Palmer found out needless to say No More Playing Hooky from School for me!
Today I was on a more noble mission to secure an IDNYC Card. Yes I already have a Driver’s License and my New York State Security License but the IDNYC Card affords New York City residents many more benefits. Plus my card will have the Veterans Designation. You make an appointment at http://www.nyc.gov at your local library. Even though I currently live in Brooklyn, I’m more familiar with the Queens Library since I grew up in Jamaica, Queens. One has to have proof of New York City residency, a photo ID and if you are a Veteran you must have your DD 214 (Discharge papers). After much digging (I ETS’d from the U.S. Army in 1981) I found a ratty copy. Thankfully all my documents were accepted. I was processed and should receive my actual card in about two or three weeks!! Hooray!! Victory!!
Catching the bus at the Merrick Blvd. bus depot and enjoying a slice at Margherita’s Pizza on Jamaica Avenue. Once again I indulged in a delicious pizza slice today!!
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The following song has nothing to do specifically with Jamaica, Queens but it is one of my Back in the Day Old School Favorites!!
I suppose that this Oddball may be a Fire Box but there is already one on the corner and this weird thing is practically in the middle of the block. Strange?
Roaming Urban Gypsy 