Vote Hilary

Vote for a Democrat. Vote Hilary.

Hilary A. Herbert. (Photograph by Charles Milton Bell, in the public domain.)

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In Loving Memory of Joe Doyle

📷 In loving memory of Joe Doyle, a well‐known member of the community, who died on 22 March. 😢

(All photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam, under a Creative Commons BY‐NC license.)

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.)

After the Blizzard

Snow on 72^nd Street between 35^th and 37^th avenues after the blizzard, Jackson Heights, 24 January 2016. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam, under a Creative Commons BY‐NC license.)

Taken with Nikon Coolpix S6900, edited with PicMonkey.

Autumn trees on 35th Avenue

My cover photo/header photo on the social media sites these days.

Trees on 35^th Avenue between 64^th and 65^th streets, Woodside, 4 November 2015. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

Memory Card Woes

I got the catastrophic news on Thursday from the data recovery company that not a shred of data could be recovered from my camera’s memory card that abruptly failed back in April, and so all the photos I took with my Nikon camera (as opposed to those with my smartphone camera) from February or March to April are forever lost. Of course, I should have backed up my photos more frequently and thus had fewer images on the card when the calamity struck, but I am grateful that I was very lazy during those months and shot most of my photos with my smartphone anyway. However, I did lose my photos of the St. Pat’s for All parade, of the Sunday Assembly in April and of the spectacular Persian Parade.

🎗 Faigy Mayer committed suicide Monday by falling twenty stories to her death from a Fifth Avenue rooftop in NoMad. I had met her a handful of times at social events in the “Off the Derech” community and the “reason‐based community” over the past three years. In this photo, she was taking a selfie at a social gathering organized by a mutual friend visiting from Israel.

📷 Ami’s return to America, Oliver’s City Tavern, 190 West 4 Street, Greenwich Village, 13 September 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

Tree over the ḥalal cart

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

Tree over the ḥalal cart, 37^th Avenue and 74^th Street, Jackson Heights, 27 January 2013. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

IMG_1675.jpg, taken with iPhone 4. See the rest of my photos in the album January 2013.

My Sleep Study

➡ I had a sleep study 6–7 October but am only now telling the story.

◦ Although I had been told that if I didn’t show up for the test or if I canceled it too late I’d be charged two hundred dollars, I had been told little else about the sleep study in advance. For example, I had not been informed ahead of time that I’d have a private room in which I’d be able to change clothing, so I wore loose clothing in which I intended to sleep.

◦ The technician attached a tremendous number of polysomnography wires to me, mostly to my head, some of which were fed down my shirt or my trousers leading into a box that looked like a telephone switchboard.

◦ I had been assigned a room soon after I’d arrived, but after all the wires were attached, I was instructed to sit and watch television for a number of hours before the test would begin. (I watched Antiques Roadshow.) Although I had access to a toilet and to drinking water, I was expected to be at the clinic many hours without having access to any food.

◦ When the time for the test finally came, I got in bed and the technician spoke to me from another room, apparently testing the connections: “Look to the left. Now look to the right. Now move your left leg. Now grind your teeth. Now slower.” We went through the same routine in the second part of the test and I didn’t understand why grinding my teeth was the only thing I needed to do at two different speeds until I realized she had not said “Now slower” but had instead said with an accent “Now snore.”

◦ I wasn’t allowed to sleep on my belly, the position that allows me to breathe most easily when horizontal, but only on my side or back, so I had some difficulty falling asleep. Eventually, I got into some pretty good dreaming but the technician abruptly walked in to begin part two of the test.

◦ She fitted me with a CPAP mask and left the room again. I was on my back the rest of the time, so I had to strive to keep my mandible forward in order to breathe properly, and I actually felt myself stop breathing a few times before finally falling asleep. Needless to say, because I was in a position in which I have some difficulty breathing even when awake, and because I only had about half the night remaining, I didn’t sleep very much. At the setting used, the CPAP machine seemed to have at most a negligible positive effect. I thought the technician might occasionally enter the room and alter the CPAP pressure but she did not.

◦ After barely sleeping the entire night, I was awakened in the morning, given a survey form to fill out and then discharged. Despite the conductive gel still in my hair, one of my first priorities when back in my home neighborhood (after running into a number of friends) was to eat.

📷 Celebration of Sigd in Jerusalem.

📆 PikiWiki Israel 15508 Sigd Jerusalem, photograph by Yehudit Garinkol, 24 Nov. 2011, under a Creative Commons license.

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.

June Is Gay Pride Month

📷 June is Gay Pride Month.

📆 Rainbow flags at Green Corner, 77-19 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 5 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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

(Also available on Tumblr.)

I Got Keys Duplicated Recently…

📷 I got keys duplicated recently and for some reason I’m fascinated with Archer Stores: so many little parts and things arranged in a small store. #JacksonHeights #NYC #HardwareStore #organization #regimentation #winter (at Archer Stores)

📆 Archer Stores, 73-21 Broadway, Jackson Heights, 30 January 2013. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/VYo0_DNW_g/

Shabuʻot Grapes

📷 The Shabuʻot (שבועות‎) holiday is also know as Yom hab‐Bikkurim (יום הבכורים), the Day of the First Fruits, which includes one of my favorites—grapes. 📅🍇

☞ Asaf Keisar, Shavuot2010-33, taken in Central District, Israel, 17 May 2010, under a Creative Commons license.

(Also available on Tumblr.)

Rumphool in Woodside

📷 #Rumphool in #Woodside, 2011. #ThaiCuisine #RooseveltAvenue #winter #color #ThaiHomeKitchen

📆 Lunch from Rumphool, 57-17 Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside, 2 February 2011. (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/VLcmJQtW6S/

Piñata Madness at “Jaime’s Peter Pan Birthday Party”!

📷 #Piñata madness at “Jaime’s Peter Pan #birthday party”! #MusicBox #CajaMusical #Elmhurst #gaynyc #DragQueen #transgender #HispanicAndLatinoAmericans #gaylatino #latinogay (at The Music Box (Caja Musical))

📆 “Jaime’s Peter Pan birthday party” at Music Box/ Caja Musical, 40-08 74^th Street, Elmhurst, 30 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/VCQdJDtW95/

Byoofoo Jackson Heights Sunset

📷 Byoofoo Jackson Heights #sunset. 🌅 #JacksonHeights #NYC #cloud #tree #orange

📆 The sky as viewed from 37^th Avenue and 75^th Street, Jackson Heights, 23 January 2013. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/U3n_HaNW3s/

The Very Newly Reopened Pizzeria

📷 The workers at the very newly reopened #pizzeria were still adjusting to the renovations, but my friends and I enjoyed our food. #candle #countertop #DueFratelli #JacksonHeights #NYC (at Due Fratelli)

📆 Due Fratelli, 76-23 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 18 January 2013. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

(Also available on Tumblr.)

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

Pretty Flowers Any Time of Year

📷 Pretty #flowers any time of year. 🌸🌺🌼 #winter #flower #JacksonHeights #NYC #supermarket #florist (at Super Compare Foods - Jackson Heights)

📆 Compare Foods, 86-02 Northern Boulevard, Jackson Heights, 14 January 2013. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

(Also available on Tumblr.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/UoeQl_NW6P/

Sidewalk Dog in Repose

📷 Sidewalk #dog in repose. 🐩 #JacksonHeights #winter #NYC (at Ricky’s Cafe)

📆 Ricky’s Café, 75-02 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 2 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/UY3T4pNW2R/