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(May 28) I’ve passed through Northport hundreds of times on the LIRR, but today was the first time I set foot on Northport soil.
Northport Bay
It looks like any other Long Island marina
The village resembles Port Jefferson
Except Northport apparently had a streetcar
And there in the middle of suburbia… a farm
With goats
And chickens
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(July 14) The rest of the trip to Williamsburg.
There’s a good view of the trains going across the bridge here.
The view of midtown
The view toward Brooklyn
Twilight settles over Manhattan
I love going to places with sidewalk seating
I’d love to have a place like this.
When I got back home, they were repainting this place
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(July 14) I decided to walk to Williamsburg over the bridge, at sunset.
I decided to start in Manhattan, so I took the subway to Delancey.
It puts you about a block from the bridge walkway.
A common sight on this site.
One of my favorite things about walking the bridges is the view of the neighborhoods.
The view of Brooklyn in the distance.
Unfortunately, much of the view is defaced by this chicken coop.
I wouldn’t mind taking photos from that staircase.
The Fucking Disaster Road Drive.
Looking up at the bridge.
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(August 30) Visit to the Manhattan Bridge, walking from DUMBO, Brooklyn to Chinatown, Manhattan, continued.
Span of the Brooklyn Bridge
More advice from the sages that inhabit the metropolitan area bridges
… you rawr, we all rawr
I’ll bet it says that to everyone on the bridge
Chinatown
Can you tell it’s not Beijing?
Almost there now!
Homer Simpson says buy something!
Peking duck? (Peking Pork?)
The end of any adventure. The gift shop.
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(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.
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