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Brooklyn Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Brooklyn, United States
Rupert Murdoch's Bartender bought us a drink
This is a top pick! ... where the sushi is always half price (so just cheap all the time then) with Bronwyn and Toby. Getting the L-train back to Brooklyn afterwards, around midnight, is so different to getting the tube at the same time; the carriage is packed with all ...
Fleas, Bessie's and Posties
This is a top pick! Sunday morning we go to the Brooklyn flea market down by the east river edge in Williamsburg. Its stinking hot so we feel a bit dizzy as we wander around the craft food stalls, vintage clothes and furniture. The heat is meant to climb into the 100's this ...
Highlights? more like Shitlights.
This is a top pick! ... . Plus the air con was pretty tasty. 24th, Sunday: In the morning we go to Deklab Market in Downtown Brooklyn. Its a new market set up in old shipping containers and even houses the local radio station. The pictures explain all. 25th, ...
God hates New York
This is a top pick! In the morning we go to the Natural History Museum with Bronwyn. They suggest that you pay $16 entry fee. We suggest that we pay $10 and their passive aggressive attempt to get us to pay the 16 fails (*spot the 3 English girls in the queue ...
Goodbye Manhattan, hello Brooklyn!
This is a top pick! ... performing that night. Its a great piece; a monologue about Diana's reflections on being attacked by a schizophrenic 3 years ago in... Brooklyn. Oh. Oh I see... Claire to Jo (during closing applause): 'Shall we get a cab home?' But ...
It's Too Darn Hot
This is a top pick! ... Afterwards we walk through Park Slope, a very leafy and beautiful suburb to the bar where Bronwyn works. When we get a cab home we pass the Brooklyn bri(iiiiiiii)dge - this is the closest we have got to it yet! ...
Claire's new smell and other happenings
This is a top pick! ... ) that is starting to go off a bit. She is a brave solider for the remainder of the day. Burritos from Brooklyn (which Claire declares her first real 'food success' in New York), it rains all day which cools the temperature, we do ...
Parents, Performance and Poetry
This is a top pick! ... the East River Ferry from North Williamsburg down to the south of Manhattan to get the Staten Island Ferry, travelling under the Brooklyn Bri(iiiii)dge on the way. We should really have had some idea of what awaited us on Staten Island considering ...
Sh!t Theatre on a shit working holiday
This is a top pick! In the morning we go to 'Broadway in the Park' in midtown's Bryant Park. Its Rubbish. Too small stage, too hot, too crowded and most of all no costumes. Who wants to see the cast of Hair in their ordinary clothes!? Apparently a lot of people. ...
The Victoria Tour
This is a top pick! 26th, Tuesday: Last week Victoria promised us a tour of NYC Murray style! We don't give her the opportunity to change her mind, and so we meet her at Astor Place in Manhattan and go to McSorely's. Its one of the oldest bars in New ...
Working for the week...
This is a top pick! ... . Nevertheless we manage to fit in a few extra bits in around work so here's the highlights: On Monday we go to a gig in a bar in Brooklyn that one of the bar men from Iona's is running. His band are playing when we arrive and they are very good. The band ...
10, 9, 8, 7, 6...
This is a top pick! ... ; Nevertheless, after dinner we meet up once again with Toby and Bronwyn for some bowling at Brooklyn Bowl, a bit of an institution in Williamsburg: http://www.brooklynbowl.com/bowl Toby dominates the game and the ...
5, 4, 3, 2...
This is a top pick! ... xht0HcPryWA boo to the view! We leave Lori with plans to meet at least once more before we leave, and go back to Brooklyn to meet Victoria at a nearby bar. Like inner city hicks we drinks lots of beer and play an arcade game where you have to ...
London's Burning and Sleep No More
This is a top pick! ... a producer on the Rosie O'Donnell chat show) sitting casually in one corner. In the evening we head back to Brooklyn for a night of (in Victoria's words) 'spectacular rounds of 'Spot It'. Dangerous feuds with Frida. [and] Songs with our names ...
Ngunye Retreat and 2 Adeles in Nam
This is a top pick! ... retreat to do a practice called Ngunye which includes a vow of silence and fasting over a 4-day period in my neighborhood in Brooklyn at Diamond Way Buddhist Center (where I've been practicing at since May). The type of retreat I'm doing is a purification ...
Brooklyn Bridge Crossing
This is a top pick! After several attempts to cross the Brooklyn Bridge, finally, I did it with my brother, Jing, his wife Gigi, my nephew, Kidd, and Martin. It was a 20 minutes walk from end to end. It was one o'clock in the afternoon, of August's summer, hence we took the ...
More Yosemite and NYC and Brooklyn
This is a top pick! ... were just drunk. I arrived in NYC last night and was picked up at JFK by my dear friend Mallory. We headed back to Brooklyn where she and her brother's family live and had dinner at a local Austrian restaurant. They were serving beef stew or fried ...
Did we order the Artichoke dip?
This is a top pick! Mal and I spent our evening last night enjoying drinks and dinner at this bar called the "Farm" right off of Flatbush near her house. It was our second time there since I arrived. They have the most amazing artichoke dip as well as other yummies! The ...
Brooklyn, Manhattan continued
This is a top pick! As the saying goes, the more things change the more they stay the same. I'm sitting here with Mallory watching the Emmys just like we used to do when we were roomies years ago in the Bay Area. Not only has the weather remained cool, storms have moved ...
Rooftop NYC
This is a top pick! ... to do! Mallory and her brother's family live in this amazing renovated brownstone near Flatbush in the Prospect Heights part of Brooklyn. her brother's family has the main floor and the lower level. Their mom has a studio apartment on the second floor ...
Return to Broooklyn Bridge
This is a top pick! ... any other bridges that I know. This time, I returned just by myself. I crossed the bridge again, and then walked around Brooklyn looking at NY skyline. I happen to meet Heidi Muller, on the shuttle bus on the way to the airport. She travels all ...
America the Disposable
... 't have the strength to fight it anymore. "Uncle." I write my final blog entry in the exceptional comfort of my Brooklyn apartment-an apartment that cost me more than most people in India may make in their entire lifetime, with central heat, high ...
~*Home Sweet Home*~
I've lived in Brooklyn almost all my life and I have just discovered one of the many wonders of Brooklyn. Who would have thought that a small busy city would have a place as beautiful and hidden as this? Based on my pictures, if you haven't figured out ...
Here we go!
Last year I thought of taking a few brave high school students to Morocco. When I was in high school I took a trip through Europe and the Soviet Union and it really changed my way of looking at the world. Now the trip is here and what I am most excited ...
Latest Brooklyn Blog Entries / Photos
Just posted a bunch of blog entries and photos detailing my recent visit to Bay Ridge... I love my home area and its history-- there's always something new to explore and discover. My family has been there since 1910. Enjoy !! ...
Back home and some rest
Well it's been a week since the Olympics are over, and I've been back home since Tuesday. My head is still not on straight but I'm trying to get things back together. Lot's of good news: Karin and Teddy are well and I'm so glad to see them, even if ...
DUMBO
We are now in our third and final exchange apartment in New York, this time in a part of Brooklyn known as DUMBO, or Down Under The Manhattan Bridge Overpass. This is more our sort of neighbourhood - more hip, edgier and more interesting - more like ...
Leaving Brooklyn
... with a laid back ambiance), and coffee shops (Nero Doro aka my home office, great cappuccinos) opening recently. The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) located in the area is an important cultural center offering an impressively ...
Coney Island Warriors
22.12.2012 Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, USA Bronxista selviydyttyä otettiin seuraavana päivänä täysin päinvastainen suunta -> Heräilevältä Canal Streetiltä laskeuduttiin jälleen metroasemalle ja hypättiin Brooklynin eteläkärkeen ...