Looking Serious in a Playful Winter Hat

🌬📷 By some ways of reckoning it, winter is over, but the weather here is certainly still wintery. Here are some of my recent photos showing that people in New York City can manage to look serious even when wearing a playful winter hat. And I write that as a New Yorker often in a mood as playful as my hats. (Photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam, under a Creative Commons BY‐NC 4.0 license.)

Saturday evening, I arrived quite early for a social engagement at One Mile House on Delancey Street on the Lower East Side and was standing in front of the venue wondering what my next step should be. Should I wait there or try to find something else to do in the meantime?

While I stood there, about ten emergency vehicles—police cars, ambulances and fire trucks—pulled up alongside me with their sirens wailing, and EMTs, fire fighters and police officers filed into the Bowery subway station. A little while later, a police officer emerged with a loudly crying witness to whatever it was that had happened in there. As a crowd gathered, people were helping to translate her testimony from Chinese for the policeman as well as apparently helping her contact some family members on her telephone. I overheard what some passengers and some emergency workers were saying, and it turns out that her companion was struck by an arriving train as he stood on the platform.

Soon afterward, the injured passenger was brought out on a spine board to a wheeled stretcher that was waiting atop the stairs and rushed to an ambulance. I later learned that he had been wedged between the train and the platform and that his fellow passengers were pushing on the train trying to free him and that he later died at hospital.

Related

• Ben Kochman and Ryan Sit, “Straphangers heave subway car off Queens man trapped, killed by J train,” Daily News, 9 Nov. 2015.

• Linda Adams, Twitter, 7 Nov. 2015.

• New York City Transit Authority, Twitter, 7 Nov. 2015.

📷 My marching with the LGBT cluster in the Celebrate Israel parade, Fifth Avenue and 59^th Street, Midtown Manhattan/Upper East Side, 31 May 2015. (Photograph by Harold Levine.) 🇮🇱

Yesterday, I did jury service and wasn’t even picked for a voir dire panel, let alone a jury. All I did for about five and a half hours was write in my diary, check online social networks with their free Wi‐Fi, talk on the telephone with my mother, watch movies and flirt with a few attractive men. Then for my trouble, they gave me a certificate good for four years that thanks me for my “participation and contribution to the delivery of justice.” 😌

Madison Square Park, April 2012

My current cover photo/header photo on the social networking sites.

📌 Madison Square Park after the Persian Parade, East 26 Street between Fifth and Madison avenues, Gramercy/Flatiron District, 15 April 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam, under a Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial 4.0 International license.)

📷 DSCN1619.JPG, taken with Nikon Coolpix S220.

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.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/UM2bZstW4A/

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.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

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.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/UEnmQbtW0z/

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.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/T-tc2ctW-N/

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.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/T8aOTaNW7d/

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.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/T79lxhNW4t/

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.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/Tz9JS-tW6G/

Customers, Yuletide Decorations and a Mounted Head

📷 Customers, Yuletide decorations and a mounted moose (or deer?) head. 𐂂 #JacksonHeights #NYC #QueensLove #QNSLUV #moose #deer #taxidermy #taquería #MexicanCuisine #poblano #winter #Yule (at Taqueria Coatzingo)

📆 Dinner at Taquería Coatzingo, 76-05 Roosevelt Avenue, Jackson Heights, 29 December 2008. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/TxcdGiNW02/

Remembering Queens Pride House’s “Night of Gratitude”

📷 Remembering Queens Pride House’s “Night of Gratitude,” December 2010. #QueensPrideHouse #volunteering #gratitude #award #JacksonHeights #NYC #gaynyc (at Queens Pride House)

📆 “Night of Gratitude” at Queens Pride House, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 9 December 2010. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/TvhX3KtWwS/

Glass Candle Holders of Various Shapes, Colors and Sizes

📷 Glass candle holders of various shapes, colors and sizes on the morning after Christmas. #Yule #CandleHolder #winter #Elmhurst #QNSLUV #QueensLove #glass #GlassColoringAndColorMarking #candle #terraza7 #terrazacafe #BoxingDay (at Terraza 7 Train Cafe)

📆 The morning after Christmas Day / Boxing Day morning at Terraza 7 Train Café, 40-19 Gleane Street, Elmhurst, 26 December 2009. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/Tufie9tW5f/

Okay, Yes, It Snowed Yesterday, but Don’t Get All Excited…

📷 Okay, yes, it snowed yesterday, but don’t get all excited; this picture is from 2009. ❄🚕❄ #snow #JacksonHeights #NYC #winter #taxi #Snapseed

📆 North American blizzard of 2009, 72^nd Street between 35^th and 37^th avenues, Jackson Heights, 20 December 2009. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/TqKgtoNW6G/

I Assume This Was Hung on the Doorframe to Repel Insects

📷 I assume this was hung on the doorframe to repel insects. #ChiliPepper #lime #InsectRepellent #JacksonHeights #NYC (at Apna Bazaar)

📆 Apna Bazar Cash & Carry, 72-20 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 24 December 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/Tn-93MtWy5/

The Jews Are Deliberately Polluting the Sacred Christmas Holiday!

📷 Incontrovertible proof that the Jews are deliberately polluting the sacred Christmas holiday with their dirty Jew symbols! Fight the war on Christmas! (🎅✡)

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All five images are under Creative Commons licenses:

• Marco Repola (istolethetv), antisemitic santa, Santacon, New York City, 13 Dec. 2008.
• Phillip Merritt (intheburg), IMG_4001, Williamsburg, Va., 7 Dec. 2008.
• Chanel Beck (TheChanel), MistleJew, 14 Dec. 2006.
• Will Scovill (Bedtime Champ), Our Holiday Decor, 27 Sept. 2005.
• Marco Repola (istolethetv), Jewdolph the blue-nosed reindeer!, Santacon, New York City, 13 Dec. 2008.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

Cheese Cake Plan

📷 The “Cheese Cake Plan” is the plan on which I want to be! 🍴 #signage #misspelling #Engrish #cheesecake #dessert #cheesecakeplan #cake (at Ichi Umi)

📆 My birthday dinner at Ichi Umi 一海, 6 East 32 Street, Murray Hill, Manhattan, 21 December 2009. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/TmcKaJtW0h/

Kisses at “Dance 208” 💏

📷 Kisses at “Dance 208.” 💏 #gaykiss #gaynyc #GreenwichVillage #Dance208 #NYC 😘 (at The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center)

📆 “Dance 208: Twinkle Holiday Dance” at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13 Street, Greenwich Village, 18–19 December 2010. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/Ti8YxltWxk/