7 sights for the seventh month

In an annual Sense & the City tradition, I offer seven of my favorite sensory experiences from around this city—this time, sights—that didn’t make it into a full monthly post.

  1. Irving Scrap Metal in Canarsie: sttractive, accurate, courteous, and a pleasure to do business with.

2. One of the last old-school kulfi-making machines in New York City, Satguru Sweets, Ozone Park.

3. Sidewalk barber, complete with red-and-white striped pole, Upper West Side

4. Just a man and his horse in their front yard, Parkside Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

5. Summer city sight, upgraded with custom paint job, Sugar Hill, Harlem.

6. Discarded masala chai cups lined up under the stairs to the 7 train, Jackson Heights.

7. Queens Boulevard castle offering swim lessons and open MRIs, Forest Hills

 

 

 

Sense & the City is a monthly blog exploring the hidden corners of New York City. Each month’s post is devoted to one of the five senses. Receive daily sensory impressions via Instagram @senseandthecity.

Caitlin Van Dusen

Caitlin Van Dusen is an editor and writer living in Brooklyn. Her adventures for Sense & the City have led her to canoe the Gowanus Canal, sneaker-skate through the Metropolitan Museum of Art, get beaten with an oak broom in a sauna, spelunk on the cliffs of Inwood Hill Park, get professionally cuddled in a Wall Street high-rise, chase down a truck while carrying a fistful of knives, tromp through an abandoned landfill, summon fake laughter in a midtown basement, receive midnight deliveries of contraband milk, and cleanse her senses in a sensory-deprivation tank. She received a graduate certificate in long-form documentary journalism from the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. She can be contacted at caitlin.van.dusen[[at]]gmail[[dot]]com
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