To Court Street for lunch and back.

Along Fifth Avenue as far as Carroll Street, and down to Court Street.

Carroll Street crossing of the Gowanus Canal

And back along Bergen Street.

Houses along Bergen Street

Fabulous warm weather - walk just over five miles.

Sunset Park

Very short wander to this viewpoint

Straight down to the water

From a little higher

Manhattan in the misty distance

A local denizen

Through Prospect Park to Museum of Art, and back later

Battery Park and north, then back via Brooklyn Bridge

Iris reticulata by the hundred in park by the Hudson

Looking across to New Jersey

Nice plants, shame about the sign

Massed crocuses sun-worshipping

Some fantasy sculptures in the park

Looking back across the bridge

My route

Short wanders round Red Hook and Battery Park.

Saturday I met Peter and Kath and we went for a short walk round Red Hook, and its waterfront.

Statue of Liberty in the distance

Old warehouses by the water

View of the Verrazano Narrows and Bridge

Sunday I took the subway with Brian and Leonie and a friend, plus the kids to Battery Park Playground, in southern Manhattan,  by the Hudson.  Within view is the w-i-p of Freedom Tower, which is to replace the WTC twin towers.   So much waterfront in this city one way and another, and they are making great use of it. Lunch in a rather typical burger place.

Kath's ceramics show is on at the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative Gallery until July 7 2012

Prospect Park and Kensington

Canada goose step

About 5 miles in all.  Fine, with a sharp cold wind, and later sunnier and warmer.

American robin

these leaves look as though they've dried in position

A few blocks away from the park - quite unlike most of Brooklyn

tree character 1

tree character 2

Through Brooklyn to the Bridge and back

The part I traced is  6.6 miles. I estimate the return leg, which I didn't trace was another 3 - so getting close to 10 miles today.  Lunch with Leonie, near the Carousel on the waterside.  Noticeably warm today, though breezy on the bridge.

Pics and map to follow.

Prospect Park perimeter

A wander in the sun, with a cold wind - a well-wrapped walk, but pleasant enough to stop and sit in places.
Just under 6 miles.

Photographs taken with Fujifilm point and shoot camera.

Map and details later.

A couple of street wanders in Brooklyn

First six miles or so, on Sunday, including parts of Prospect Park, then 7th Avenue and a visit to Barnes and Noble bookshop - more for the coffee and scone than the books.

The second one, on Monday, a three-mile walk round the perimeter of Greenwood Cemetery, noting the contrast between the oasis of peace for the dead and the outside bustle and general messiness of the living.


More details and pics later