After enjoying an excellent coffee at the Bedford Hill Coffee Bar in Bedford-Stuyvesant, we decided to walk the 1.7 miles to Brooklyn Museum, neat Prospect Park.
A walk from Bedford Hill down Bedford Avenue to Brooklyn Museum, New York Read More
I’ve always been drawn to Coney Island, a faded seaside resort in southern Brooklyn facing the breezy Atlantic Ocean. Once a thriving retreat for New Yorkers, the area has been slowly decaying …
Coney Island in winter: New York photo feature Read More
Here’s the remains of the famous Parachute Drop in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. Standing 262 feet (80 m) tall and weighing 170 tons, the amusement ride was once known as …
Remembering the wonderfully precarious Coney Island Parachute Jump Read More
The New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn is a great place to visit if you’re in New York and have a bit of an interest in old trains, mechanical things, old …
Old trains galore at the New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn Read More
Here’s a collection of street photos taken around Manhattan and Williamsburg, starting with this fire service box (or whatever it is Americans call them!) in lower Manhattan.
Anarchy in Manhattan and other street scenes Read More
Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan one November evening, we were greeted by this absolutely stunning sunset.
Into Manhattan with a stunning Brooklyn Bridge sunset, NYC Read More
We’re happy to tramp quite vast distances in our quest for great cafes and good coffee, and our trek out to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn was rewarded by excellent beverages …
Bedford Hill Coffee Bar, Bedford-Stuyvesant, NYC Read More
Currently swarming with hipsters, estate agents, career-seeking graffiti artists, wannabe musicians, website-promoting entrepreneurs, record-bag clutching DJs and – thankfully – a fair few normal people, is the area of Shoreditch in east London.
London’s Shoreditch turns into Williamsburg (circa 2005) Read More
Here’s another selection of photos from our December 2010 NYC trip, starting with these buskers on Bedford Avenue subway station, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
New York photos: subways, buskers, transvestites and fallout shelters Read More
Another handful of pics hot from the (cold) streets of Noo Yoik!
More New York snaps Read More
Here’s some camera phone pics from NYC (using the HTC Desire phone and the Vignette app). Above is a scene in Williamsburg, with cranes looming in a chilly winter sky.
New York City snapshots Read More
Some more photos from our travels around Williamsburg, Brooklyn NYC:
Some photos: Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY Read More
New York street scenes. Some photos of graffiti, skylines, neon shopfronts and fallout shelter signs from our travels around Brooklyn and Manhattan last winter More photos here: …
New York street photos Read More
Last winter we paid another visit to Red Hook, Brookyln � a down-at-heel, former industrial port which was once dubbed the ‘crack capital of America.’ Here’s some photos I’ve finally …
Red Hook, Brooklyn, NYC photos Read More
After the death-by-yuppie demise of our favourite Williamsburg cafe, the Read Cafe on Bedford, we’d been looking for a good hang out cafe in Brooklyn. We still like the Atlas …
Boneshakers cafe, Brooklyn Read More
Some wintery photos from Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Prospect Park, Brooklyn Read More
Some more pics for you! More Williamsburg photos here and here
Williamsburg, Brooklyn photos Read More
The City Reliquary is a sort of DIY museum stuffed full of old bits of New York, including a chunk of metal off Williamsburg Bridge, old coins, a sand bucket, …
City Reliquary Museum, Brooklyn Read More
I’m slowly working my way through the photos taken during our trip to New York in December last year: New York photos I’ve also added a short feature on my …
New York photos update Read More
Williamsburg/Brooklyn photos posted! I’m slowly working through the hundreds of photos from my November NY trip and have just posted up 80+ pics taken in Brooklyn. Manhattan shots to follow! …
Williamsburg/Brooklyn photos posted! Read More
NEW YORK BLOG – 5th – 17th November (Photo gallery to follow!) Saturday 5th November: New York bound! With a thick head after last night’s alcohol-slopping Offline (that beer at …
New York blog – Williamsburg and Lower East Side adventures Read More