Momos/Mantılar

📷 Momos/mantılar in Namaste Tashi Delek Dumpling Palace, Jackson Heights. #momo #mantı #JacksonHeights #food #TibetanCuisine #sauce #dumpling #queenslove #NTDDP

☞ Namaste Tashi Delek Dumpling Palace in the rear of Merit Kabab & Dumpling Palace মেরিট কাবাব রেস্টুরেন্ট, 37-67 74^th Street, Jackson Heights, 4 October 2010. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/Sio0QJNW38/

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.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/SgZeXFNW8A/

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.)

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

Pastry Bakery 天天西饼

📷 One of the places I tried last night with friends was Pastry Bakery 天天西饼 in Elmhurst. #Elmhurst #bakery #NYC #queenslove #food

☞ Jeffrey Tastes’ “Halalathon” at Pastry Bakery 天天西饼, 82^nd Street between Roosevelt Avenue and Ithaca Street, Elmhurst, 19 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/SQO3NxNW6_/

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.)

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

Mughlai Buffet

📷 Does opening an Instagram account mean that I’ll be posting food pictures even more frequently? #MughlaiCuisine #JacksonHeights #NYC (at Tawa Tandoor)

☞ Tawa Tandoor, 37-50 74^th Street, Jackson Heights, 12 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

http://www.instagram.com/p/R8bMwmtWy7/

Carlin’s cupcakes

Carlin’s cornflake cupcakes at the New York Bear Den gathering. #bear #NYBD #cupcake

☞ New York Bear Den gathering at the Diversity Center of Queens, Alliance Building, 76-11 37^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 11 November 2012. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

Lou Rispoli murdered in Sunnyside

📷 Lou Rispoli, a gay man greatly involved in the community and a friend of friends, was murdered last month in Sunnyside. I am glad to have met him in 2008.

☞ Lou Rispoli at a Thanksgiving gathering at Mark’s place, Upper West Side, 30 November 2008. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

See Andy Humm, “Beloved Gay Leader Savagely Attacked in Sunnyside Dies,” Gay City News, 25 Oct. 2012.

Past Heads of Years

Just in time for sundown and thus the end of the holiday, here is a list of my past Roʼsh hash‐Shana–themed micro‐content which I compiled on my hard disc and thought worthy of sharing. Because Google eliminated their micro‐blogging service Jaiku, this list had to be cobbled from various sources. Some of the accompanying links lead to holiday videos.

5769 (2008), preserved nowhere but on Facebook as far as I know

• שנה טובה!‏ 🔗‏ ‎—29 Sept. (Facebook)
• …wishes all a כתיבה וחתימה טובה. May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year. —29 Sept. (Facebook)

5770 (2009), published on Jaiku, preserved on FriendFeed

• …awaits the Jewish New Year by listening to a Yiddish cover version of a popular Hebrew song about the coming year. 🔗 —17 Sept. (FriendFeed)
• …feels if you do not have access to a shofar (ram’s horn) you should improvise. Happy New Year. 🔗 —17 Sept. (FriendFeed)
• …now awaits the Jewish New Year by listening to a Turkish cover version of the same popular Hebrew song about the coming year. 🔗 —18 Sept. (FriendFeed)

5771 (2010), published on Jaiku, preserved on Google Buzz

• …wishes all a sweet new year, but tonight will not be eating the traditional foods depicted in the video. 🔗 —8 Sept. (Buzz)
• ☼ At my location, sunset will be 19:16. Sometimes, waiting for sunset for a holiday to begin can be a drag. 🔗 —8 Sept. (Buzz)
• ‏✡ לשנה טובה תכתבו ותחתמו.‏ 🔗‏ ‎—8 Sept. (Buzz)
• …is celebrating the Jewish new year by listening to a Sefaraddi‐Israeli Gipsy Kings knockoff band. 🔗 —9 Sept. (Buzz)

5772 (2011), published on Google+

• …thinks it perfectly appropriate to celebrate the Jewish new year with a cover version of “Gold Digger.” 🎶⚞✡ 🔗 —27 Sept. (Google+)
• 📺 ‏„שנה טובה.”‏ An appearance by the late Ofra Haza on the children’s television series Parpar Neḥmad. (🍎🍯) ♬ 🔗 —28 Sept. (Google+)
• 🎵 What could be more exotic than the Zulu song “Mbube” (“The Lion Sleeps Tonight”) adapted with a Hebrew lyric? 🔗 —28 Sept. (Google+)
• 🎉 A happy, healthy and sweet year 5772 to all! לשנה טובה תכתבו ותחתמו. שנה טובה ומתוקה.‏ Roş Haşana Bayramı kutlu olsun. 🍎🍯 🔗 —29 Sept. (Google+)

5773 (2012), published on Google+

• ♫ It’s too theistic for me at parts, but the Ein Prat Fountainheads did release a really cute music video for Roʼsh hash‐Shana (ראש השנה) last year. 🍎🍯 📹 🔗 —16 Sept. (Google+)
• 😞 I always think to have traditional foods after the holiday has begun, so I doubt I’ll find lekex (לעקעך)/​revani/​basbusa (بسبوسة) in my area. 🔗 —17 Sept. (Google+)

Shana Ṭoba שנה טובה

📷 Roʼsh hash‐Shana ראש השנה, the Jewish new year, will soon be here. 📅

My new cover photo on the social networking sites: Chany Crystal, Shana Tova, 29 Sept. 2006, Flickr, under a Creative Commons license.

Window in a Square

My new cover photo on the social networking sites: Maria Hobl, Window in a Square, photograph shot in Agadir, Morocco, 29 Mar. 2011. Flickr, 14 Apr. 2011, under a Creative Commons license.

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.)

The Museum Mile Festival in the Rain

The Museum Mile Festival in the rain, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side/Carnegie Hill, 14 June 2011. ☔ (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Related

• Meg Cotner, Mellifluous Ephemera, 30 Aug. 2012.

Belvedere Flowers

Belvedere flowers. Jackson Heights Beautification Group Self‐Guided Tour of Private Interior Gardens, the Belvedere and Belvedere Gardens, 35^th Avenue between 84^th and 85^th streets, Jackson Heights, 18 June 2011. ⚘ (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Previously

• “Belvedere Fountain,” 16 August 2012.
• “Linden Court Bench,” 17 August 2012.
• “Towers Garden,” 29 August 2012.

Related

• Paul Bannister, Twitter, 29 Dec. 2010. Photograph of the Belvedere in winter.

Purple Queen

Purple queen. The Heritage of Pride gay pride march, West 8 Street between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, 26 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Previously

• “1 Fifth Avenue and Washington Arch,” 23 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March,” 24 July 2012.
• “Preparing to March II,” 25 July 2012.
• “Walking to Pride I,” 2 August 2012.
• “Walking to Pride II,” 2 August 2012.
• “Invading the Gay Pride March,” 7 August 2012.
• “Resy’s, Jay’s and Xavier’s marching…,” 17 August 2012.
• “Xavier and I…,” 17 August 2012.
• “Making Officer Livingston Blush,” 28 August 2012.

Towers Garden

Jackson Heights Beautification Group Self‐Guided Tour of Private Interior Gardens, the Towers, 80^th and 81^st streets between Northern Boulevard and 34^th Avenue, Jackson Heights, 18 June 2011. (Photograph by Elyaqim Mosheh Adam.)

The entire set of photographs is on Google+.

Previously

• “Belvedere Fountain,” 16 August 2012.
• “Linden Court Bench,” 17 August 2012.