Yesterday my wife and I walked to the train station to catch an 8 AM train to Newark-- so we crossed the bridge over the Raritan to the train to the PATH to the Oculus-- and we went to the Immersive Van Gogh exhibit at Pier 36-- very immersive and very psychedelic, certainly dose yourself a bit with the drug of your choice before you go in-- and then walked across the Manhattan Bridge into DUMBO-- and the Manhattan Bridge was empty save for a couple fo diehard runners and we had great views of the city and Brooklyn-- and then went to Evil Twin Brewery for some delicious beers and ate lunch at another branch of the Westville Diner-- excellent vegetarian fare-- and then we saw lots and lots of people taking some iconic photos of the Manhattan Bridge and we walked back to the Oculus across the Brooklyn Bridge-- holy shit! what a difference from the Manhattan Bridge-- packed with throngs of people-- and they let you climb up over traffic?-- and people REALLY like taking pictures on the Brooklyn Bridge . . . and then back through the Oculus, back on the PATH and it would have been a perfect public transport day except there was an old dude on the single lane escalator and we were sprinting up it for the train and he was not walking and he wouldn't let us pass him until it was too late and the train pulled away as we got up the steps . . . so we had to wait a few minutes for the next one and then we walked back across the Raritan Bridge and collapsed.
catherine slip!
ReplyDeletenormally i don't deign to acknowledge puns, but this one was too good.
ReplyDeletezwoman's sister moved to Dumbo recently so we went (or really had to go) there for Christmas. She lives on Water Street, right under the overpass, so we drove down Adams and turned onto Water but found no parking so I tried to make the left onto Front Street but it was mobbed with tourists taking photos of themselves in the middle of the road with the bridge in the background. I put my blinker on but no one moved. I revved the engine and still no one moved. The Jerzy jackass in me wanted to drive through them and make them move but it was Christmas day and I had the kids and the dog in the car so I went down two blocks and back around onto Adams. All this is to say that Catherine is smart for standing on the sidewalk, otherwise a guy like me trying to turn onto Front Street would've run you over.
ReplyDeleteThat looks incredibly unsafe.
ReplyDeletewow, zwoman's sister lives in a hip spot-- although i don't think i would ever drive there (i was astounded by the parked cars wedged into tiny spots down by the water). definitely one of those places where you just marvel at the fact that people are living there. that evil twin brewpub has some great beer . . .
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