Another walk across New York. This time starting in Greenpoint which is the most northern part of Brooklyn, and into Manhatton via the Williamsburg bridge.
There does seem to be a ‘thing’ about proper big murals, some just plain arty, and some which are simply commercial adverts, such as for current films or Dell laptops:
Some of these murals are amazingly photographic…
The Williamsburg bridge is imposing – this is the view from a community garden/farm almost under the bridge. We were really impressed with the very artist greenhouse.
The bridge is quite impressively built with lots of heavy girderwork, but probably very necessary in order to carry train track in both directions, two lanes of cars in each directions, plus wide cycleway and footpath.
We wanted to visit the Tenement museum – a ‘preserved’ tenement building that shows the way immigrants used to live at various times in the past, from the 1800s to the 1930s. But they don’t allow people to just visit – they only have guided tours and they were fully booked so it was a wasted visit 🙁
Walked a bit around the area of Manhattan, and found ‘Little Italy’ which really is small. We also found a lot of completely Chinese shops selling stuff that we really didn’t recognise.
We walked back via Brooklyn bridge. It was a sunny Sunday afternoon, just before the ‘Labor Day’ holiday, and the bridge was ridiculously crowded, so crossing was slow
The route back went past the old Brooklyn naval yard, and then through a large Jewish neighbourhood where most of the signs are in Hebrew, then back across a very non-glamorous ‘Broadway’:
