By Mark Chesnut

Mark Chesnut is a New York City-based travel writer and photographer. His writing has appeared in Fodor's, the Huffington Post, the Miami Herald and the inflight magazines of Aeromexico and American Airlines. He's now working on a full-length memoir about the life and death of his mother.
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Bumps in the Road

  If you fly over Jackson Heights on approach to LaGuardia airport, the neighborhood appears as a cluster of leafy blocks pierced by dozens of brick apartment buildings. And if you had happened to fly over on one particular summer afternoon, with binoculars and exceptional eyesight, you just might have witnessed what appeared to be me…