We pick on our tour of Brooklyn at the Essex St. subway station.  After leaving essex street, the train enters the Williamsburg Bridge and becomes an elevated line.

 

We took that train to Flushing, a place I had only been once.  We drop off my Aunt and Uncle and as punishment for being so flip at Jay St., we walk all the way back to Soho in Manhattan  :evil:  That'll learn em!  :evil:

 

 

I had a couple of picture as the train ascends on the bridge, but the windows of the train are so dirty they were quickly deleted.

 

For some odd reason none of my pictures in Bushwick came out.  I had shots, under the el tracks, of the location where "Willie Lopez" was killed in Ghost.

 

The kids were so funny, they said things like, "Why is there a PR Flag in almost every window - cool!", "they are so ghetto, they must be NuYoricans" or "even the lady at McDonalds speaks Spanish!"  Although I was disappointed to find out my youngest nephew and cousin don't know how to read in Spanish. 

 

From Marcy Ave.

 

 

Entering the bridge from Williamsburgh

 

Looking North toward Greenpoint (Hey wasn't someone else there?  Who knew this was UrbanOhio's celebrate Brooklyn week!  lol)

 

The bridge has this horrible wire mesh and my arms weren't quite long enough to stick the camera lens through an opening.  The kids gave me hell for having short arms.  So I decided to shot some artsy type photos.

 

 

This bridge is absolutely disgusting and not in a cool sort of way.  It's really nasty, 40 oz cans everywhere, drug paraphernalia, twinky hipsters selling weed right on the bridge.  Some skinny jeans wearing raggedy thing tried to sell my 10 year old cousin a joint.  He took of after I threatened to toss him off the bridge.  The brooklyn bridge is a much better experience.

 

 

 

At the cross over we got to watch a few trains roll thru.

 

 

 

The Manhattan Bridge to our south

 

and my new favorite image of New York.  I love this, if I could only find a way to get this off the bridge and into my house.

 

 

Since the Bushwick pictures are crap here are some bonus photos of other areas.

We walked Delancey to Christie, then headed north to Houston.  On Houston we headed east to broadway.

 

I was disgusted to see the DKNY corporate logo gone for Holister.  Holister is taking over the old Pottery Barn space.  That DKNY ad, has been a fixture in SoHo for 20 years.

 

 

We walk thru NYU and the kids want to see the fountain at Washington Square park.  The park looks 100% better but the smell of the water.  ick.

 

 

 

You kids remember these homes from the movie, I am legend

 

The ankle bitters are now hungry, over to University and up to Union Square where they fight it out to decide on a dinner location.

 

 

Cool pics. I didn't know the renovations at Washington Square Park were complete.

 

I used to live in Bushwick and take the L train through Billyburg everyday. That whole hipster scene gets old fast.

Love Washington Square Park.

Well done.

attention everyone: mts must have been in Filene's Basement (the agony!)--that's the only way he could have gotten that last shot of Union Square! lol

attention everyone: mts must have been in Filene's Basement (the agony!)--that's the only way he could have gotten that last shot of Union Square! lol

 

Yep.  I'm not spending $200+ on jeans for a 13 year old.  R&R, Diesel, true religion & 7  jeans were $49-$55 at Filene's!  The boy has grown 2" since April.  At the rate he is growing he wont be able to wear them in 6 months.

attention everyone: mts must have been in Filene's Basement (the agony!)--that's the only way he could have gotten that last shot of Union Square! lol

 

Yep. I'm not spending $200+ on jeans for a 13 year old. R&R, Diesel, true religion & 7 jeans were $49-$55 at Filene's! The boy has grown 2" since April.   At the rate he is growing he wont be able to wear them in 6 months.

 

oh, I see...although the men's department at FB does sometimes carry some those normally overpriced "premium" jeans--Earnest Sewn, Chip & Pepper (which is such a stupid name and reason enough not to buy them) at discount prices--not that you looked!

Nicely done! I'm especially enjoying the first couple of shots, with the rail and the bridge and the dome and the buildings and all the, well, stuff.

Loved these!