Thursday, November 30, 2006


Exit 49, 400 feet above sea level, on top of what geologists call the Ronkonkoma moraine, the backbone of the island, and the base for the Long Island Expressway.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006


But statistics tell another story.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006


Gated communities have existed since the walled cities of medieval times.

Monday, November 27, 2006


Joseph Cornell spent his life on Utopia Parkway, using it to make boxes of nostalgic ordinariness.