The Space Race: Visitors

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Leaving for Alaska Today

I'm flying out of LaGuardia today at 6:30, I should be in Fairbanks by 12:30 tonight/tomorrow morning. I can't post pictures from my phone so I'll probably just send short updates or maybe blog sometimes from Erik's phone. Martin and Lis have been here for a few days so they will see me off tonight before they go meet some more friends.

Here are a couple of pictures of Martin and Liz eating pizza and in Central Park:

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Spring Visitors

We had some recent visitors to the Rego Point Diner, first was Erik, who was here in late May. While he was here we went to the NYC Transit Museum which I had always heard was great but was a big disappointment! The best part was the old ads in the old timey subway cars they had but the museum was lacking in secret subway info.

To make up for it we snuck into the Amtrak tunnel under Riverside Park at 125th Street. This tunnel was unused for a long time and was one of the main tunnels that the "mole people" were living in until the early 90's when Amtrak started running trains through again. Because of this and the tunnel's wide area on each side of the track it became a graffiti hotspot. The tunnel has lots of skylights that let light shine down onto the walls to create natural graffiti canvases like the ones behind Erik here. We only walked to 100th street (each street is marked with a sign in the tunnel) but the tunnel goes all the way to 72nd.

If we had gotten to the end of the tunnel we would have come out right where Andrea and I went to go see the transit of Venus on June 5th! When she took this picture at around 7PM we weren't sure if we would see the transit at all because the sun would be setting around 8 and it had been cloudy all day. We walked to the end of the pier and then back to the telescopes and right then the sun came out from behind a cloud and we saw Venus for about 30 seconds, perfect timing!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

And a happy Sam York Day to all!

We recently had a visitor at Rego Point here for Sam York Day (March 26). He liked it so much he stayed for St. Cholula's Day (March 27) as well! He arrived in the middle of Pi(e) Day (Observed) in Brooklyn and then got the night tour of Ridgewood, Middle Village and Reog Park by way of the Q38. The next day after talking his way into the Staten Island Museum he got to check out Curry Hill and the East Village. The next morning after a brief stop at La Guardia he decided to stay another day!

Meanwhile, I rode my bike to Astoria and back and finally understand how all the streets work in Queens above ground. Not as confusing as it seems! We look forward to Sam York Day 2013 and any future Sam Friedman visits!