Mapping app says I walked 6.3 miles but I turned it on after I started, so I’ll round it up to 6.75, even as it feels like I walked a lot farther. Felt nice. And now I have a new payphone to play with up at the abandoned Sports Authority on Northern. Such intrigue. Such skulduggery and jiggery-pokery.

I really wish I had my DSLR today. A lot of great shots awaited. Of course you can get good pictures with any camera, and the little point and shoot will probably come through just fine. One of my 500px pictures that went popular a few wweeks ago came from my Galaxy Note 5, and I think another one a year or so ago came from the Note 2. I doubt if pictures from my old Treo phones would go popular there but you never know. It’s kind of meaningless.

The goal today was to find a street or place that I’d never seen before. I managed to find a large shopping mall around 31st Avenue and 76th Street. I guess that area is Jackson Heights? Maybe not. Corona? I’ll look it up. But as soon as I discovered the mall I thought “There has got to be a payphone here.” And sure enough, not only was it one of John’s EHUC phones but someone was using it when I first spotted it. I made a call, too, will probably post it here later. His is one of the payphones that will be spared the LinkNYC slaughter, since it is located on private property and not subject to city franchising regulations.

At the ghetto coffee shop, where a little kid is absolutely screaming to his father, telling him some mixed up story about a school teacher.

I saw Saint Michael’s Playground, which I don’t think I’d ever seen before, or if I did I saw another part of it. This area had astro turf, which seems to be a cause for its notability. I also saw just a handful of tombstones at the very back of Saint Michael’s Cemetery. I’ve been to that cemetery many times but it was interesting to see it from a different angle. I do not know what business operates at the buiding with a giant PERFECTION sign across it.

I actually thought that the rogue payphone on Northern might be the start of a trend where whoever put that phone up will start hijacking other abandoned payphone enclosures. But I found no others in my brief survey of the phoneless enclosures I know of. I guess they’ll get away with the Sports Authority one because no one is there to complain about it, though I wonder if they would even care about something like this situated on the very far reaches of their property.

I cannot find my glasses. They will turn up, I’m sure, but in the meantime I am wearing the previous set and they are quite a bit better than I expected. I still have a set of glasses I got from an online source. Those were crap.

I don’t want to be here at this place any more. I want to go home. I shall do as I please. Windfall should hit the mailbox tomorrow. Yesh.