Something newsworthy happened at King Arthur's Motel & Lounge.

This "motel and lounge" near the New England Produce Center, scene of a fatal shooting last night, was always one of my favorite places to bike past. The parking lot seems to always be full of mob guys in Lincolns, and the parking lot of the Dunkin next door always contains most of the on-duty Chelsea PD cruisers.

Read this awful Globe article about the shootout. My favorite part comes at the end--a description of a 1982 brawl in which marauding, off-duty, townie cops beat 13 people (one to death) with clubs and tire irons!

Abandoned Richmond

You are cordially invited to view my Abandoned Richmond photo slideshow by clicking this link.

Highlights include:


N.B. I am fully aware that it is 3am. I just got home from Minneapolis/Mankato, Amarillo (via Houston, twice), D.C., and Richmond. I am happy to say that I nabbed 200+ shots on this trip, a handful of which are decent.

Mission Pigeons

San Francisco.

Urban Filth in the Sunday Times

This week, the City section takes the "road not taken, much" for a tour of "the antithesis of ultrahip New York." A food writer walks Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn and Queens and reports on the human and architectural oddities that make up 80% of New York City.

There is also a real news article on the slow-going approval process for Flushing Commons, the massive development project about to happen in the Downtown Flushing neighborhood of Queens.

Here's an image of that plan that I linked to the blog in July of 2005: