A Brooklyn Sunday: #3 Brooklyn Bridge

I walked back to Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge. I saw the Olafur Eliasson Waterfalls (well, I saw two of them). They weren't that exciting. I didn't see these, but some New Yorkers told me that they rated the Gates as 9/10 but the waterfalls only 2/10. I think Time Out agrees.

A Brooklyn Sunday: #2 Brooklyn Tabernacle

Next stop was church at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. They have a Grammy Award-winning choir. I loved it. This is their MySpace page.

A Brooklyn Sunday: 1# Brooklyn Flea Market

I had a great Sunday morning in Brooklyn. First I went to the Brooklyn Flea which had a good range of stalls, including some food stalls (I wish I had gone to the Fair Trade coffee stall, I didn't notice it until I had bought coffee elsewhere) and some other new Etsy craft-type stalls, selling things like knitted jewellery. There's a much better review than mine here.

Further to my post about Philadelphia, I was pleased to find somewhere in New York which sells old ceiling tin. The vendor, Olde Good Things has a shop in Chelsea too - I'm going to check it out.

Multi-million Brooklyn Heights view

This is the view from the esplanade in Brooklyn Heights - for one of the most expensive areas of the city, I'd like to be looking at something else when taking my evening stroll (admittedly, you can see the Brooklyn Bridge, and Manhattan.)

Brooklyn

I was a bit distracted in Brooklyn as I was looking for an area where Lynne, David and I stayed about 10 years ago. There was definitely a hill, I remember walking up a hill to the subway. It was a pretty nice area, I think there was a Barnes and Noble, and a sushi place. I didn't find it. I'm sure it wasn't far from the river - does anyone know where it might be?

Dog statue in Brooklyn

This dog scared me - I'm just blogging it because it is the exact same dog which scared me when I went to NYC in December - it's a statue.

A typical New York scene - a multiple dog-walker

I went to Brooklyn this morning and explored the nice brownstone areas of Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights. This is a pretty common NYC scene - but I've never seen quite so many big dogs at once - they had 12!