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Portal of the day
Image by Hobo Matt
The black sign in the window displays the permit number for a well on the property; city residents and businesses are allowed to drill wells for non-drinking water uses. All of the city's municipal water now comes from reservoirs upstate. There is a groundwater supply system in southeastern Queens, but its 68 wells have not been used in several years. The non-NYC portion of Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk Counties), however, gets virtually all of its water from wells drilled into the island's aquifers.
There is, of course, at least one non-municipal well in the city that still provides drinking water.
My Online Business Card
Image by Michael Kwan (Freelancer)
Call it a business card, landing page, portal, or whatever you want. It's what you see when you point your browser to michaelkwan.com. Provides links to my freelance services, blog, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and contact form.
Portals of the day
Image by Hobo Matt
Almost every roll-down gate in the city is accompanied by at least a couple of these sticker advertisements put up by gate repair companies hoping they'll get the proprietor's business next time the gate malfunctions. The stickers generally go unseen by the public (I never noticed one until your webmaster pointed them out to me), but they are EVERYWHERE. For example: this, this, and this.
