A Day In Brooklyn

After the beautiful Brooklyn Botanic Garden of my previous post, we explored the surrounding Prospect Park, Park Slope, Fort Greene and Brooklyn Heights areas, before taking a must-do evening walk back to Manhattan over the famous Brooklyn Bridge.....

 Grand Army Plaza

 Park Slope

Beautiful Brownstones

 Brooklyn Flea

 The Pratt Institute

 The Pratt Institute

 The Pratt Institute

Junior's - The Place for Cheesecake

Chocolate mousse cheesecake with choc chip crust!

 Brooklyn Heights

 A poignant original memorial to 9/11 along the Promenade

 Brooklyn Heights Promenade

Brooklyn Bridge

 Manhattan Bridge

 DUMBO

 Walking the Brooklyn Bridge back to Manhattan

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Well worth a visit at any time of the year, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is particularly beautiful during the cherry blossom season....

A Walk Through Greenwich Village...

I absolutely loved Greenwich Village ... it's quirkiness, off-beat restaurants and shops and "real neighbourhood" feel made this one of my favourite parts of New York City.


Starting with breakfast at 'Oatmeals'...

Peanut butter, banana and honey on a Mama Bear serving

Onto Washington Square Park for an impromptu chess lesson....

Then a bit of haphazard wandering....

 75 1/2 Bedford Street- skinniest house

 Cherry Lane Theater

 'The Friends Apartment'

 'Ugly Naked Guy's Apartment'

 'Carrie Bradshaw's Stoep'