On February 14, 2026 cabin fever finally got to me and I tired of cooking in my own juice, and made my first camera foray of the year. As it heats up, I hope to make many more but we’ll see. I took a Q36 to Little Neck Parkway and basically did a 3 mile loop, winding up on Little Neck Parkway and 87th Road. In true Kevin J. Walsh fashion I had just missed the bus and not feeling a half hour wait, cheated and took a Lyft home.
I decided to walk on the Nassau County side of Jericho Turnpike, which may have been a mistake since Nassau County is even less dedicated to clearing crosswalks than the Department of Transportation in NYC is, and I was truly risking injury slipping on ice and half-melted ice. The ice pile you see was put down on January 25, a good three weeks prior, but it had been stone cold since, rarely getting above 25 degrees and hence all the snow that fell stayed in place, pushed b y straining plows into what you see here. Another two feet fell eight days after this photo was taken. Feb. 14 was rather mild, though, and I pocketed my scarf after while.
Until 2005 this road was bequeathed two names, Jamaica Avenue on the north side and Jericho Turnpike on the south side. Route 25 was called Jericho Turnpike in its entirety in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, but in 2005 Bellerose and Floral Park, Queens residents petitioned authorities to call their section Jericho Turnpike, as well (to lessen confusion, they claimed). Soon after that, the road gained its collection of Twin Corvingtons on the center median, an odd choice as the median is narrow and the lamps are built in two pieces: in high winds, the top piece can turn, which provoked my moniker for them, the Swiveling Corvingtons, which sounds like a 60s dance craze.
Twin Corvs don’t pop up often; they are used here and on the unofficial West Side Highway, and sparingly in other places.
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3/18/26
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The Village of Floral Park has excellent snow removal services.
This photograph was taken at the point where the south side of thecraod is the Village of Bellerose, Nassau Co
The northside is Bellerose, Queens Co
Snow ckearance on Jericho is the responsibility of the State or county DOT
Owners of corner properties are onloges to clear the crosswalks
Rte 25 ( Jamaica Ave/ Jericho Toke) is a State Road
I gre up in that area
The Nassau Queens Co line on the North side of the road is located a couple of blocks east of Little Neck Parkway On the South side the border is ar 244 St
This photo looks like it was taken from the North Side of Jericho in an area known as Bellerose Terrace
My brother used to live iver there
Then it apparently is in the DNA of local property owners to pile snow in the crosswalks.
I wonder whether the NYPD or the NCPD would be responsible for a crash in that divided section that ends up with one car on either side of the center median.
I encountered a similar situation to Floral Park’s when I relocated here in AZ in 2005. I didn’t realize that the house I had purchased was in Pinal County until I was shown the paperwork. How did this happen? Queen Creek is the last town in Maricopa County. Just over the border is Pinal Co but the development where our new house was was listed as being in Queen Creek because that part of Pinal Co had no name. The former landowner’s last name was Johnson so the development was named Johnson Ranch. East of Johnson Ranch is Florence, which is also the Pinal Co seat where all the government offices are; it’s best known as the place where the legend (hoax?) of the Lost Dutchman gold mine originated. What to do? Years later a referendum was held to name this unincorporated area & it became San Tan Valley, an unicorporated village. After many years of Maricopa County annexing the most valuable parts of of STV another referendum was held & San Tan Valley became incorporated late last year. The local government will have a board of directors who will choose a town manager who will have a specified term of office. If the elected board isn’t satisfied with the perfomance of town manager,there will be another election to choose someone else. The idea is to depoliticize local government as much as possible. If this model seems not quite right to you just take a look at two of your elected mayors, Di Blasio & the individual who now “governs” you (sorta). I’d wish NYS & NYC luck, but “luck” might not be enough to save you from the future that your local & state elected officials might have in store for you.
Government will always be messy, no matter the design, or scheme, that is created. People have different visions of what is best for themselves and for the masses. Even with the best of intentions, politics will always develop as individuals with similar interests find each other. The model you shared is similar to some others, which hire city managers, who are under contract for specific lengths of time, and which can be mutually extended. I wish you well with the model your community has chosen, and hope it serves you as successfully as you hope.
Thankyou, Ken B., for being such a rational adult. STV is attempting to replace “conquest” with “consensus” because “conflict” has become too costly.