Tagged With "Willamsburg Brooklyn"
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How loooong does it take to get to your airport?
A USA Today blogger recently published a piece pointing out that only three U.S. cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Honolulu and Chicago Midway) have public transportation that gets to the airport faster than a car, and that in some cities it can take...
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Spotted on the Road, Brooklyn: 1962 Plymouth Fury
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...
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West Indian Parade in Brooklyn to draw 2 million
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...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Sept. 19, 2015: Flying Lessons
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 become a frequent flier. While the mother perched above, the baby showed all the trepidation and ungainliness...
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JetBlue at JFK: A most unusual rooftop lounge
JetBlue likes to keep up its passenger-friendly image (despite imposing baggage fees this week) so it's not a big surprise that they've blazed a new path in airport amenities: a rooftop lounge on top of their Terminal 5 at JFK. The space is...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, October 5, 2015: Stone Gingerbread House
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. And it is actually for for sale!
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Feb. 24, 2018: Sculpture Details, Prospect Park
Brooklyn's Prospect Park has lots of statues and sculptural details, but not all of them get the attention they're worth. PHeymont looks at a few.
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Union Square Holiday Market - New York City
Jonathan L takes us shopping for holiday presents at the Union Square Market in New York.
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May 12, 2018: Manhattan from Brooklyn
PHeymont was visiting Brooklyn Bridge Park when he spotted this view of Lower Manhattan, looking across the remains of once-busy piers.
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A Park Grows in Brooklyn
Nearly 200 years ago, New York and Brooklyn, then separate cities and the greatest shipping centers on the East Coast, saw the land along the rivers—Hudson and East—begin to fill with docks, piers, warehouses and freight traffic....
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Not-so-famous museums with great exhibits
Since we're off from school for spring break, we've had time to catch up on a few exhibits at local museums...but not the big and famous, such as the Met or MoMA. Here are a few of interest, and one we haven't been to yet, but will! Neue Galerie has an exhibit with a dual purpose: reproducing the infamous Nazi exhibit "Degenerate Art" of 1937, and commenting on its effects, both then and now. Also at the Galerie, which focuses on German and Austrian art of the last century, is an exhibition...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, May 18, 2014: Lower Manhattan's New Skyline
Lower Manhattan, arguably the original home of the skyscraper, has seen its profile altered over the years by new buildings of varying size and quality. In the past half-dozen years, two new and very tall ones have taken the trend in different...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Apr. 20, 2014: Spring Comes to the Botanic Garden
It was a warm, bright day in Brooklyn yesterday; we took a long walk through Prospect Park to go shopping and returned through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It was enough to make me push today's planned Picture of the Day into June, and give this space...
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Manhattan from the Other Shore
Manhattan's skyline is constantly, although the changes are not always instantly obvious, at least not so much as the change between the city's days as a port where the ships lined the shore and the growth of huge buildings clustered together in their...
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Brooklyn Heights Promenade: A Disaster Turned to Treasure
The story of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade—the iconic walkway that lines the edge of ritzy Brooklyn Heights and gives tourists and locals alike amazing views of the East River and Manhattan—is the story of a potential eyesore that became...
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New York Harbor: View from a Tugboat
As travelers, we like to poke around in cities and look for the less-seen sights—but it’s easy to forget we have them at home, too. New York from the water is an example. In this century, we New Yorkers tend to forget how important...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Sept. 18, 2013: Sailing the Seas in NY Harbor
The clipper ship Clipper City passes the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges in New York’s East River. Clipper City carries passengers on harbor cruises, leaving from the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. The South Street Seaport...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Sept. 24, 2014: Watching the Fireworks
New Years, the 4th of July, a summer evening concert—almost anything is a good excuse for fireworks. But sometimes it seems as if no one is just watching; everyone wants to capture an image with a phone, a camera, an iPad. I'm no...
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NYC-The Lower East Side
The Lower East Side ( see map ) has been the home to immigrants for over 100 years. In the late 1800's its population was primarily Jewish, In the 1950's the population shifted to mostly Puerto Rican and then Dominican. Then in the 80's and...
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Brooklyn Museum: Three shows to visit, one closing soon
Following the "more than Manhattan" theme of the piece below, here are three current exhibits worth visiting at The Brooklyn Museum (America's most over-shadowed major museum) this season—but for one, you'll have to hurry, because it ends July...
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Finding Your Hike in Prospect Park
If my title seems puzzling, let me explain. Prospect Park, Brooklyn, is a 585-acre unnatural wonder, shaped by its builders to represent rural values and spaces in a growing 19th-century city. From farmland and hillside, Olmsted and Vaux...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Oct. 19, 2014: Creating an Urban Jungle
Neighborhood artists at work on Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, seem to blend into the mural they are restoring on the wall of the Prospect Park subway station. The mural reflects the stations location near Prospect Park and its zoo, although the zoo's...
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America's Best Ice-Cream Shops? Tell us yours...
Fodor's has published a list of what they consider (or their readers consider, actually) the 16 best ice-cream shops in the country. You can see the LIST and check for your favorites on there. Unlike the USA Today best burger list...
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Hike of the Week: The Waters of Prospect Park
Think of a hike and you think of nature, right? And this hike in Brooklyn's Prospect Park will look a lot like nature, but that's actually a complete deception. Almost nothing in the entire park is "natural." When the then-city of...
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New York City Index
Blogs Dec. 4, 2013 PHeymont Sometimes a Trip is Just a Walk in the Park (Prospect Park) Dec. 28, 2013 PHeymont New York Harbor: View from a Tugboat Jan. 29, 2014 DrFumblefinger A Visit...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Aug. 3, 2014: A Squirrel's Life
I met this squirrel—and quite a few of his furry friends—on a late-winter stroll through Prospect Park in Brooklyn. I don't climb well enough for close-ups in his world, but the magic of telephoto made it seem very personal. After a...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, Aug. 17, 2014: Manhattan Distortion
The new 1 World Trade Center building and Frank Gehry's 8 Spruce Street apartment tower join the Brooklyn Bridge in this image shot through the imperfect plate glass walls of the carousel pavilion in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
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Brooklyn Museum: Depth, Variety, Whimsy
PHeymont visits a giant of a museum that only seems small by comparison with other New York museums.
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Where in the World is TravelGumbo? (#188)
We continue our weekly series of travel puzzles with #188. New clues daily, double clues later in the week, so keep checking in!
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Oct. 13, 2016: Floral Borders, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A showcase of annuals bordering a walk shows off plants adapted to different micro-climates.
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Feathered 'ex-pats' lead to Spanish squawks
Madrid and other Spanish cities have developed colonies of Quaker parrots, an invasive species that arrived as pets.
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Early autumn in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
As summer turns to fall, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden shows off both the fading of the light and some spectacular colors.
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New York's 'Sea Cruise'—the Staten Island Ferry
As the old song goes: "Let me take you on a sea cruise!" PHeymont takes us along on New York's iconic version...
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Shunpiking through Northern Illinois
Jonathan L continues his westward trip off the highways, and shares his new discoveries and some ideas about random travel.
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Spotted on the Road, Brooklyn, NY
This gleaming 1949 Dodge was spotted on Bay Avenue near Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood. For comparison, full-body shots from long ago.
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October 2, 2016 - Verrazano Narrows Bridge
From the street in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, The Verrazano Narrows Bridge seems to tower over the residential houses.
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Built to Last: New York's Hall of Records
Built by a newly-united New York City to house its records and its Surrogates Court, this Beaux-Arts beauty is a barely-known gem.
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London's Tower Bridge, inside and out
One of the world's most recognizable bridges, London Bridge is a fooler: Under its "old stone tower" look is a modern steel bridge.
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Walking through Brooklyn Heights
Jonathan L walks us through New York's 'first commuter suburb' and now one of the city's most historic and interesting neighborhoods.
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Jonathan L work at two NY galleries
One of TravelGumbo's regular contributors has work on exhibit at two New York area galleries.
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Brooklyn Black heritage center saved by the bell
A center marking one of pre-Civil War America's largest free black communities is in danger of closing.
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Gowanus Canal: Brooklyn's gritty secret
PHeymont takes a walk along the Gowanus Canal, a long-abused historic waterway, nearly hidden from sight but now a focus of developmen
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The RBG: Edinburgh's Greenest Spot
PHeymont seldom passes up a chance to stroll in a botanic garden, and found Edinburgh's, though not huge, full of color and unusual exhibits.
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Sept. 28, 2019: Bright Shiny Object / Sink
Two unusual sculptures in a temporary exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum are fun, but offer a sobering thought.
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Sept. 1, 2019: An Ex-Parrot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Jonathan L shows us some of the street art decorating Williamsburg Brooklyn
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The Lure of the Abandoned
Marilyn Jones considers what links us not only to the life around us, but to the life that has left its monuments behind.
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Winter at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
PHeymont takes an out-of-season walk through his favorite (and nearby) botanical garden as winter gives it a different look.
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Glimpses of Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
PHeymont makes first acquaintance of a fabled landmark, home to many 'permanent New Yorkers.'
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April 20, 2019: Spring in the Garden
Winter is over at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. These are just a few of the signs of spring encountered on a walk last week.
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Brooklyn Historical Society, New York
PHeymont finds the Brooklyn Historical Society as interesting from outside as from inside.