September 6, 2008

(August 30) Viza will be pleased to know that having walked the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, that I finally went to the Brooklyn end of the Manhattan Bridge, and ventured across. I had planned on exploring further into Manhattan, but I was pretty tired by the time I stepped off the bridge in Chinatown. I need to return to Chinatown with my camera again.

When last I saw the Manhattan Bridge, it was from the grounds of Brooklyn Bridge Park.

I walked past this on my way to the F station.
At what point do we stop pretending blogs aren’t mainstream even if the vast majority of people don’t have one?

The plaza at the foot of the steps.

This is much nicer than the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Unfortunately, this would prove to be the only win for the Manhattan Bridge,
It suffers from the visual pollution of chain link fence,
meaning the view seen through my camera far exceeds what reality provides.

Unlike the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, the bike lanes in both directions are together, as are the walkways.

One of the defining characteristics of this neighborhood is the unusually large number of skybridges, which link the many Watchtower Buildings.

You get an interesting view from up here, like of rooftop tennis courts

In a city of eight million people, someone’s always thinking something very similar to what you’re thinking

I’m a kid from the suburbs, and the woods this is not.
But if I were going to waste a lot of money living in the city,
I wouldn’t mind having one of these rooftop gardens

On this bridge you’ll see no traffic at all.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said about seeing subways trains.

I’ll bet the views from these are great

The pigeon, who laughs at the locked gates, mocked me

I wouldn’t mind having rooftop access, period, like these people

We can only hope the Water Taxi is more safely operated than the street taxis are

I’m getting the impression it’s non-stop weddings at this spot of the park

Brooklyn Bridge Park

The idea of East River water touching my body creeps me out

Part two coming soon.