Obituary for Mel Cuba- Lifesaver

This is Mel Cuba in 1933.

I read this post the other day in the New York Times. It is an obituary for a 99 year old (wow!) man who had saved 4 children from drowning in the Rockaways during his youth. The article briefly discusses how these children came to the beach from an orphanage and then they got caught in a powerful wave. It just shows that there is this constant history of stories about children drowning and the "heroes" who from time to time prevent sad endings to stories- but very few about what can be done proactively to fix these problems.

It's really snowing out here in Queens!

This is a really nicely done grafitti area that you can only see coming on the A train to/ from Rock Park to Ozone Park area. It's right by that Bowling Alley (high above in the sky). My window had tons of ice on it today. There were MTA people cleaning off the ice. I've never seen so many MTA people on the Rockaway commute.



some scenic photos
when the train stopped at the Rockaway Park station- they wouldn't open the doors for 25 minutes. I sat alone looking at the wet floors and listening to the whistling of the window. It was beautiful and sort of lonesome all at once.




The station. Covered in 3ft of snow today. (at 8am)!

at the bus stop- waiting with a group of 20 something people for about 25 minutes.