Sunday, September 18, 2011

Rego Park: Real Good

Here are some pictures of my new neighborhood Rego Park, it's kind of far into Queens and because of that it's kind of weird, two blocks in one direction feels like some city in another country with fruit stands spilling out into the street and every store sign in a different language, two blocks in the other direction and you're at the mall. I'm doing some reading about New York and I discovered that Rego Park was designed by the Real Good Corporation, hence "ReGo".



On the left is my building "Walden Terrace". On the right two of the markets close to my house. There about ten markets within about a five minute walk (actually probably more like 20 markets) but they each seem to have a specialty so I end up going to a lot of them for different things. Also not for away is the mall and Queens Boulevard which is 12 lanes of crazy:

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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Back in New York

I've been back in NYC for about a week now, I live in Queens now, it's kind of far away from a lot of things but my apartment is nice and it's a new place to explore. I've had one day of work so far, it was just a meeting and things will start more on Monday. Emily came to visit over Labor Day weekend, we did a whole bunch of stuff and it was nice too see the city again with her. Here are some pictures from the first day she was here when we went to Coney Island I took the one of her she took the one of me. Her visit inspired me to do some sort of "take yourself on a tour" book so I'll probably post from illustrations I'm working on for that soon.

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