Dumbo Park

This week, I’ve got a thing: panorama photos. The camera, a Sony NEX, does the work, and the distortions, too. To see the full picture, click on the Bad Foto on Flickr to the left of the screen.

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Coming & mostly going

It’s travel day. Fight the crowds, get to your destination, and have an enormous meal with family and friends. Then watch some TV and eat some more, and turn around and come home. Happy Thanksgiving!

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Holiday dusk, Brooklyn Bridge Park

Two weeks ago the hurricane hit. Parts of Dumbo are fine; other places, windows are boarded up. Basements are still drying out and on some blocks piles of trash bags are 10 feet high.

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Biking on cobblestones

Uneven pavement is not a biker’s favorite surface… but the views! That’s the pay-off. To the right is Brooklyn Bridge Park and more fabulous scenery and views of Manhattan.

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Don’t flick your butts

When I saw this sign I thought it was something new, then I noticed it was sponsored by the MEA, the Metropolitan Etiquette Authority. Even if they can’t give you a $50 ticket, think before you flick that butt!

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Metrotech tourists

Sooner or later, every part of Brooklyn will have tourists. I don’t know why I should be surprised to see a pack of them on the walkway near the F and A trains. The Marriott is nearby, and so is the Brooklyn Bridge.

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It looked bigger in person

New York has been on a heightened state of alert. A patrol boat like this, from the NYC Fire Department, is not an unusual site, though in the vast river, with Manhattan in the background, it looks so tiny.

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Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge

Here, at Tillary Street, is a bike and pedestrian entrance  to (& exit from) the Brooklyn Bridge. People who have come from Manhattan stop and ask, “Where the hell am I and where is the closest subway?” (A large map is nearby.) This is not the hip and scenic Brooklyn they have been hearing about. FYI, the guy in the photo is wearing a t-shirt of the Milky Way galaxy that says “You are here.”

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Just stay in Brooklyn

To see this sign is to think of Hubert Selby Jr.’s book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, if you’re familiar with it. Bursting with profanity, violence, prostitution, and sexual confusion, it caused an enormous stir when it was published in 1964. The 1989 movie was dark, but had some good performances and was quite watchable.

Today in Brooklyn:  gray, cloudy, periods of rain. Most of the traffic was coming in rather than leaving.

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Wedding party by the bridge

Fulton Ferry Landing, with its postcards-from-NYC views, is a favorite spot for wedding photography. On Saturday, two wedding groups were circling the area, waiting to take the stage. Everyone else nearby was wearing winter coats because it was in the 40’s and breezy.

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