Visited Brooklyn NY over the Thanksgiving holiday. UC Bearcats played in a tournament (which they won) at the Barclays Center. We spent most of our time walking around 3rd, 4th, and 5th Ave. Obviously a small part of Brooklyn, but interesting. Can't say the architecture was impressive but the environment and people (non-hipsters, j/k) made it interesting.

 

From the Hotel's roof top terrace

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UC vs Nebraska. Whenever I think of Big Ten, I think snooze-fest, but the Bearcats made it fun. Sparse crowd of team's fans and basketball junkies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to walking the streets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Church(?) looks like it has a nice stone facade, but the rest must be coming down.

 

 

 

Not a single bike checked out. Shame on the hipsters.

 

This little gem is right across the street from our hotel.

 

 

UC vs George Washington. Tougher game. UC was far more athletic but GW hit 11 threes

 

 

 

NY media goes crazy

 

 

9/11 Memorial Museum was intense. Wasn't sure about taking photos so I just took these two.

 

 

 

Heck with giving school's names. We'll just give them numbers. Public School #133

 

Damn double parkers. Sent this to NYPD

hey nice work on this thread and congrats to the bearcats.

 

a couple clarificiations -- all the schools have names, they are just more commonly known by their numbers. the double parking you see there is for alternate street parking, so they can allegedly clean the streets, but really its mostly just to make money ticketing. its illegal to double park during asp, but obviously it's allowed and yes sometimes the traffic cops go around ticketing during asp and people scream bloody murder. the big church is the church of the redeemer, which is prominent there, but not for long. it was bought last year for $20M and is being torn down i think. a shame it probably wont be saved, but it was a long neglected wreck. probably left to be so on purpose lately to be sold off? i dk for certain about that, just a guess due to all the ratner atlantic yards redevelopment around there. aren't those new apt bldgs around the barclays arena just lovely? lol.

Nice!

Great thread!

Great thread.  What do our resident architects think of Barclays?