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