I think I have had these wasps come to light traps, but it may have been a different, similarly colored and sized Ichneumonid.

I’ve gone up there before. The only other people I saw up there were a couple of homeless individuals who I waved at and was ignored by.

Cool! There are so few larva observations in the city.

Where you found it can give us some clues to its identity (on a plant, under a log, etc.)

The huge mess of interchanges where the Van Wyck, Grand Central, and Jackie Robinson meet is the location of the original headwaters of the Flushing River. All that’s left of the river are those two heavily polluted lakes.