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.)

October

My current header/cover picture on most of my online social media accounts. 🎃🎃🎃

🖺 “October,” illustration by Mildred C. Jones, St. Nicholas, Oct. 1905, 1142. (In the public domain.)

Holiday convergence

Today is International Day of Non‐Violence, World Smile Day, and one of the days of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (סכות), the feast of booths or tabernacles. One of the symbols of Sukkot is willow (ערבה ʻaraba), the leaves of which are said to represent the human mouth. So use your human mouth today by giving someone a disarming smile and thereby making the world a better place. 👄☺

Equinox stroll

For no other reason than because the equinox was nigh, I took a stroll around a four‐block radius from my apartment building early this morning. I didn’t expect many persons to be out and sure enough the streets seemed to have even less human activity than usual, especially 37^th Road. (Noteworthy was a very large, drooping sash or scarf of unknown significance tied between two poles on 37^th Road near the corner of 73^rd Street, and I wondered if it were somehow related to ʻIdu‐l‐Aḍḥa/Qurban Bayramı.) There was nothing to see and nothing to do at that hour on a weekday, certainly nothing related in any way to the equinox, so I soon went home, but I was glad to be out breathing the night air and having some interaction, however minimal, with neighbors.

September 2015/Tishre 5776 equinox

♍ In the New York City area, the equinox will be Wednesday morning, the 23^rd, at 04:22 EDT, coinciding with Yom Kippur. 🌐 ☀

• “Sun at the Equinox,” uncredited illustration in A Short Course in Astronomy and the Use of the Globes, by Henry Kiddle, New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 1871, 31. (In the public domain.)

📷 Celebration of Sigd in Jerusalem.

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

Happy, Oily and Greasy Hanukka!

📷 Happy, oily and greasy (first {now third} day of) Hanukka! #menorah #Hanukkah #Chanukah #Midtown #MidtownManhattan #חנוכה #חנכיה #מנורה #hanukkiyya #NYC (at New York Marriott Marquis)

📆 Socializing with members of Exotic Jews at the New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, 24 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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“Exotic” Friends and I

📷 Some “exotic” friends and I in Midtown Manhattan. #exojews #Midtown #NYC #EdSullivanTheater #autumn #MidtownManhattan #gpoy #Jews #ExoticJews (at Ed Sullivan Theatre)

☞ Exotic Jews by the Ed Sullivan Theater, 1697 Broadway, Midtown Manhattan, 24 November 2012. (Photograph by Isxaq Agadi.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/SkKIHANW1_/

Previously

• “Yuletide Lights in Midtown Manhattan,” 30 Nov. 2012.

Yuletide Lights in Midtown Manhattan

📷 Yuletide lights in Midtown Manhattan as viewed from within a moving vehicle. #Yule #Thanksgiving #Midtown #Manhattan #autumn #ChristmasLights #MidtownManhattan

☞ Possibly West 55 Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, Midtown Manhattan, 24 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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Halal Turkey পাওয়া যায়

📷 “Halal turkey পাওয়া যায়.” A Bangladeshi Thanksgiving can be had in Jackson Heights. #signage #Bengali #JacksonHeights #Thanksgiving #autumn #NYC #queenslove (at Titash Supermarket)

☞ Titash Supermarket, 71-06 35^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 18 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/STztSUNW2q/

Previously

• “Gorgeous Autumn Colors in My Neighborhood,” 30 Nov. 2012.
• “Ethical Humanist Society Banner,” 30 Nov. 2012.

Colorful Shawl

📷 Colorful shawl seen on 37^th Avenue in Jackson Heights. #shawl #JacksonHeights #fashion #clothing #NYC #autumn #queenslove #SouthAsianEthnicGroups

☞ 37^th Avenue between 72^nd and 73^rd streets, Jackson Heights, 20 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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Gorgeous Autumn Colors in My Neighborhood

📷 I have been grooving on the gorgeous autumn colors in my neighborhood of late. 🍁🌳 #autumn #JacksonHeights #NYC #tree

☞ 77^th Street between Northern Boulevard and 34^th Avenue alongside Travers Park, Jackson Heights, 18 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/SNmSq-tW2g/

Previously

• “Ethical Humanist Society Banner,” 30 Nov.

My Duck Lips

😗 Blowing a kiss to the camera just looks like duck lips.

📆 Ayah’s and Aaron’s birthdays with the Exotic Jews at Tiberias, 45 East 34 Street, Murray Hill, Manhattan, 10 November 2012. (Photograph by Eli Bildirici.)

Ethical Humanist Society Banner

📷 With the Ethical Humanist Society of Queens. #EthicalHumanistSocietyOfQueens #JacksonHeights #GardenSchool #NYC #Humanism #EthicalMovement #autumn #phoneography (at Garden School)

☞ Ethical Humanist Society of Queens banner at the Garden School, 33-16 79^th Street, Jackson Heights, 18 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

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Sona and Mandi

Sona Mandi, 37-44 74^th Street, Jackson Heights, 3 September 2008. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

سونا منڈی

Sona is a common Indo‐Aryan word for ‘gold’. Compare Urdu سونا, Panjabi ਸੋਨਾ sōnā, Hindi सोना sonā. Mandi is a market, as in Urdu منڈی manḍī. So Sona Mandi is a gold market. Both words are used in other store names here in Jackson Heights, New York.

Man in the Subway

Probably the 6 train, Manhattan, 8 September 2004. (The first picture was shot in East 51 Street station, Midtown Manhattan/Turtle Bay.) (Photographs by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

Rainy, stormy day

A rainy, stormy day in New York City. ⛆⛆☔⛆⛆⛈

☞ Francisco Daum, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, 7 Sept. 2011, Flickr, under a Creative Commons license.