Touchdown

Took this picture last weekend behind Alley Pond Environmental Center aka APEC here in NYC.  It is, of course, an Egret Something bothers me about this photo, and C&C is more than welcome

Ft Totten

 

This used to be the USCG Station at Ft Totten, now part of the FDNY/EMS water training.

When most people think of NYC, they think of Manhattan, the skyscrapers, the crowds (aka the Sex in the City/Woody Alan NYC) or Archie Bunker/The King of Queens NYC (the dense parts of the outer boroughs - or as we in NYC often abbreviate 'boro'),  People forget that parts of the North Bronx, Staten Island, or in this case, Queens (Ft Totten is NE Queens) are quite suburban