Photography: Springtime in Quarantined New York Part 4
The other day, I went on a very long walk — about 5 miles or so — through my neighborhood and Flushing Meadows-Corona Park with my Canon 77D. We’ve been practicing social distancing and have been in quarantine for the past 50 days or so and admittedly, it’s still odd to be out and about in New York and not see many people around. All of this quiet is just unsettling to me.
The neighborhoods of Elmhurst, Jackson Heights and Corona have been hit the hardest by this pandemic. As a Queens native, I shit on my home borough all the time, and for a variety of pretty valid reasons, including the weird conservative streak among significant portions of the population, and the penchant for NIMBYism. But the borough’s diversity and eclecticism has taught me lessons on how to truly be a global citizen that I’ve taken with me everywhere I’ve traveled. Queens is one of the few places in the world that I know that openly says “Come whatever you are! Come whoever you are! Come! Come!”
The soundtrack for my walk including Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is EP and Fever to Tell, Atmosphere‘s Mi Vida Local and The Beat Escape‘s Life Is Short, the Answer’s Long. Photos below.
For these photos and more, check out the Flickr set here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmMTsFwj