afternoon walk in crown heights

and we welcome spring to (my view of) downtown brooklyn...beautiful day!


i live in the most interesting neighborhood in nyc


as you walk down eastern pkwy, or wander the sidestreets of crown heights, i don't see how you could avoid it. it's beautiful. i'll try to feature the architecture of the row houses more in the next week, but i'll say for now that i think it bests anything in park slope, the villages, or brooklyn heights. it's much more diverse and colorful (only bed-stuy rivals it, to me).


proof of spring? check the buds on the trees...



it's such a diverse neighborhood, dominated by two very different groups (the caribbean sections and the hasidic section). they've had their problems in the past, and perhaps still do, but now we can savor the experience of walking nostrand, or kingston, or utica, soaking in the sounds just as i might in a foreign country, letting my eyes wander from the island colors to the hebrew lettering...


i even saw a car covered in 'barbados' towels and flags parked right behind a mitzvah tank

(photos: eastern pkwy, at various spots between bedford ave and utica)