“Queens Boulevard is a major thoroughfare connecting Midtown Manhattan, via the Queensboro Bridge, to Jamaica in Queens, New York City, United States. It is 7.5 miles (12.1 km) long and forms part of New York State Route 25.”
Atlas Obscura
Queens Boulevard isn’t traditionally thought to be a very scenic route when you drive down it, but Sonny ‘Sundancer’ Behan has created a piece that’s worth a look – though, at seven stories tall, it’s not exactly hard to miss. It’s a mural of two lions, mother and cub, standing on a shimmery surface and looking to the northeast. The mural is thematically appropriate, having been painted on the…
Atlas Obscura
The strips of green next to the highway offramps tend to be pretty desolate, populated with weeds and trash. The pocket next to where the Long Island Expressway lets drivers off onto Queens Boulevard was no exception, until a group of sculptors decided to carve out a space for local art. The space was already being used sporadically by people in the neighborhood, but it was local artist Susan V…