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Earlier this month, I joined my friends Jacob, Steve, and Yefim on a photo walk from Jackson Heights to Sunnyside in Queens. It’d been probably a decade since I’d last been to Jackson Heights. My loss, since it’s got some of the best South Asian food in the city, owing to its incredibly diverse population. Our first stop was Angel (which recently moved to a new location at 75-18 37th Ave, contrary to what the website says at the time of writing). It was some of the best Indian food I’ve had anywhere. We ordered and ate so much food that I didn’t even have dinner.
From there, we started off on our walk to Sunnyside. We wandered up to the 34th Ave open street and meandered around the neighborhood for a bit. Then, we headed on to Woodside, sometimes walking under the elevated train tracks. There was a mix of cozy neighborhoods, barren warehouses, viaducts, and industrial landscapes.
We took a brief detour to Sunnyside Yard, which, despite its name, is a rather bleak environment, only really suitable for trains, crossed by the occasional bridge. It divides Sunnyside from Astoria and Long Island City.
Finally, having made it to the other side, we got on the 7 at 33 St–Rawson St station and went our separate ways on to the next thing.
Want to be in photos like these or buy prints? Send me an email. I’m no longer on Instagram, so if you message me there, I won’t see it. You can also drop me a line on Signal, Mastodon, or Bluesky.
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