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anxious band
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman I keep coming up empty at Calvary lately. Today’s examination of the great polyandrion of the megalopolis centers around an odd...
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suffocating windrows
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman A few of you have emailed me recently, concerned about the dire outlook and melancholy displayed here, at your Newtown Pentacle, in...
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doubly glad
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman After the “anxious band” posting a couple of weeks ago, an email was received from none other than the Historian of Old St. Pat’s...
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vainly requested
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman My bet is that this is mid 1960′s, quite possibly a 1965, Buick LeSabre Custom Convertible which I spotted on Northern Blvd. a few...
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ornate and exotic
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Maddeningly, lucky captures like the ones featured in today’s posting have been pretty rare for me of late, but here’s three from the...
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potent interest
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman A carven forest of infinite sorrow and cosmic loss, Calvary Cemetery here in Queens often brightens the mood of one such as myself....
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impersonal investigator
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Often does a certain conflict arise within me regarding Calvary Cemetery and the various tales unearthed there which are then...
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intently and shudderingly
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman Dissonant, the mad cacophonies of Western Queens often drive one such as myself beyond the brink of madness, and solace from this...
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The 2013 Spring and Summer Tours Schedule
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mai Armstrong Want to see something cool? Odds are that a bunch of the folks who will be reading this might have no idea who Mitch Waxman is, why...
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Hidden Harbor Tours: Newtown Creek tour with Mitch Waxman
“follow” me on Twitter at @newtownpentacle - photo by Mitch Waxman On Sunday -the 26th of May- the Working Harbor Committee is producing and offering a boat tour of the Newtown Creek for any interested...
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forced economies
Today, we pass through a crossroad. - photo by Mitch Waxman One of the things I find endlessly fascinating about Western Queens is the juxtapose between at least three different urban planning schemes...
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distant hills
So, what were you up to a year ago? - photo by Mitch Waxman As has been and will be repeated to you all day by everyone, today is the anniversary of Hurricane Sandy blowing in and kicking New York...
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atavistical menace
Welcome to the darker side of the year. - photo by Mitch Waxman Call it what you will. There’s Samhain, and Calan Gaeaf, and we’ve also got All Hallows’ Eve – but it’s just Halloween here at Newtown...
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flushed and excited
Come on now, this is just someone messing with my head. - photo by Mitch Waxman The other day, Friday to be exact, a buddy of mine who is new to the neighborhood was subjected to a short examination of...
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wondered whether
My Bubbe would have described the first shot as “Yoyzel on de cross.” - photo by Mitch Waxman For those of you who didn’t grow up in a Jewish family, “Bubbe” is Grandma, and let me tell you this –...
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horrible swaying
In the cold waste. - photo by Mitch Waxman One is preoccupied, driven to distraction actually, by the Big Little Mayor’s announcement yesterday that he will be using the full power of City Hall to...
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ordinary interpretation
First Calvary Cemetery, in today’s post. – photo by Mitch Waxman It’s been a while since a post about my favorite place in Queens has been offered at this, your Newtown Pentacle. For those of you who...
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sepulchral adorations
Tour announcements, in today’s post. – photo by Mitch Waxman On August 22nd, your humble narrator will be offering a walking tour of First Calvary Cemetery in LIC’s Blissville neighborhood. First...
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obvious empiricism
Tomorrow – Calvary Cemetery awaits. – photo by Mitch Waxman At 11 a.m. tomorrow, I’ll be narrating (humbly) a walking tour of First Calvary Cemetery here in LIC’s Blissville neighborhood. I will be at...
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antique forms
Visiting with the Alsops, in today’s post. – photo by Mitch Waxman Famously, the Roman Catholic Church purchased the land which would become LIC’s Calvary Cemetery back in 1848 from the Alsop family,...
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