Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn (Where Gumbo Was #160)
April 4, 2016
Grand Army Plaza is one of Brooklyn’s hubs, where Prospect Park meets the Central Library, a memorial arch, the Greenmarket and much more.
Grand Army Plaza is one of Brooklyn’s hubs, where Prospect Park meets the Central Library, a memorial arch, the Greenmarket and much more.
In a sort of ‘back to the future’ movement, New York City is expanding its current few river ferries into a full-scale transit system, starting next year.
It’s clearly winter now at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, with only a few days left until Christmas, and only the hardiest of crops remaining—but those include lovely piles of scallions with their roots showing, and plenty of turnips, beets and carrots. Not to mention lots of apples of many varieties (no, those aren’t tomatoes in the boxes) as well as meats, baked goods and specialty foods. And, of course, it’s the season for some non-edibles as well, in the form of holiday…
This picture was inspired by a 1930s Berenice Abbott photograph of lower Manhattan from the waterfront that I used in a blog about changing Manhattan views.
A travelers wanders at home, trying to view his neighborhood as he views others, and wondering how others see his.
In the middle of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn sits this wonderful house. It is fanciful and fun, and sits on a whole block of city land.
Phragmites—the common reed—grows everywhere there’s water, and so successfully that in many places, including the lake in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, it’s considered an invasive plant…but
Back for a day from our flying time, on the way home from Europe, we spotted this young bird on our Brooklyn stoop, preparing to
Here’s a car that hasn’t gotten much respect. And that goes beyond its current “ready for restoration” condition; even when it was new it drew a lot of snorts and mockery. Laurence Jones of Curbside Classics…
Paraders pass the Brooklyn Museum Photo: Fordmadoxfraud / Wikimedia Brooklyn’s annual Labor Day West Indian parade is New York’s biggest parade, and possibly the largest single Carnival celebration in…
Grand Army Plaza is one of Brooklyn’s hubs, where Prospect Park meets the Central Library, a memorial arch, the Greenmarket and much more.
In a sort of ‘back to the future’ movement, New York City is expanding its current few river ferries into a full-scale transit system, starting next year.
It’s clearly winter now at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, with only a few days left until Christmas, and only the hardiest of crops remaining—but those include lovely piles of scallions with their roots showing, and plenty of turnips, beets and carrots. Not to mention lots of apples of many varieties (no, those aren’t tomatoes in the boxes) as well as meats, baked goods and specialty foods. And, of course, it’s the season for some non-edibles as well, in the form of holiday…
This picture was inspired by a 1930s Berenice Abbott photograph of lower Manhattan from the waterfront that I used in a blog about changing Manhattan views.
A travelers wanders at home, trying to view his neighborhood as he views others, and wondering how others see his.
In the middle of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn sits this wonderful house. It is fanciful and fun, and sits on a
Phragmites—the common reed—grows everywhere there’s water, and so successfully that in many places, including the lake in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park,
Back for a day from our flying time, on the way home from Europe, we spotted this young bird on
Here’s a car that hasn’t gotten much respect. And that goes beyond its current “ready for restoration” condition; even when it was new it drew a lot of snorts and mockery. Laurence Jones of Curbside Classics…
Paraders pass the Brooklyn Museum Photo: Fordmadoxfraud / Wikimedia Brooklyn’s annual Labor Day West Indian parade is New York’s biggest parade, and possibly the largest single Carnival celebration in…