Winter Clothing

📷 Winter clothing. #gaynyc #gayjew #MountainJew #gaybear #bear #gayatheist #gpoy #me #selfportrait #gayqafqaz #Fəs #tarbush #طربوش #טרבוש (at Filldor Court)

📆 My apartment, Jackson Heights, 23 January 2009. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures taken that day can be viewed on Facebook.

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Turhan Bey Was Half Jewish

📷 Was I aware before he died in September that Turhan Bey was half Jewish? (👳✡)

☞ Unknown photographer, photograph of Turhan Bey labeled J‐S27, pre‐1950, believed to be in the public domain. (See http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turhan_Bey_1.jpg.)

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Winter Walk Riverside Park

📷 My cover photo on the social networking sites: Dave Bledsoe, Winter Walk Riverside Park, 8 Jan. 2010, under a Creative Commons license.

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Bears Are Really Friendly

📷 I’m looking forward to the New York Bear Den gathering on the thirteenth. Bears are really friendly. #NYBearDen #JacksonHeights #gaynyc #gaybear #bear #gaykiss #winter (at NY Bear Den @ Queens Pride House)

📆 New York Bear Den (and Bob’s birthday) at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 9 January 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures of that event can be viewed on Facebook.

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Chandelier Viewed from Below

📷 #Chandelier viewed from below, 2009. #perspective #JacksonHeights (at Delhi Heights)

📆 Delhi Heights, 37-66 74^th Street, Jackson Heights, 8 January 2009. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures shot that day can be viewed on Facebook.

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Hanging Balls, One Lower Than the Other

📷 Hang­ing balls, one lower than the other, 2010. _🔵^🔵 #JacksonHeights #ChristmasOrnament #ChristmasWreath #Yule #diner #clock #NewYearsDay #wreathball (at Jack­son House Diner)

📆 Jack­son House Restaurant, 82-14 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 1 January 2010. (Photo­graph by Elya­qim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures shot that day can be viewed on Facebook.

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A New Year Means by Definition a New Month…

📷 A new year means by definition a new month, so that means another New York Bear Den gathering is upcoming. Look at the gorgeous #cheesecake someone brought in 2011. #food #dessert #cake #nybearden #gaybear #newyear #gaynyc (at NY Bear Den @ Queens Pride House)

📆 New York Bear Den at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 9 January 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures of that event can be viewed on Facebook.

This idea of a “New Year’s cheesecake” is apparently not a new one although it was new to me. See also

• Veronica Chan, Instagram, 31 Dec. 2012.
• Veronica Chan, Instagram, 1 Jan. 2013.
• “Countdown Cheesecake Recipe,” Taste of Home, n.d., reproduced from Quick Cooking, November–December 2002, 59.

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The Spirit of 76th: the 76th Street Eagle 𐇮

📷 The spirit of 76^th: the 76^th Street eagle. 𐇮 #JacksonHeights #NYC #patriotism #eagle #winter #tree #QueensLove #QNSLUV (at Jackson Heights, NY)

📆 34-02 76^th Street, Jackson Heights, 10 December 2009. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

More of my pictures shot that day can be viewed on Facebook.

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