Bedford-Stuyvesant/Bushwick, Brooklyn, May 2010

Two days walking around Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick toward the end of May, 2010 . . .

Bedford Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant:

Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant:

We took this flyer on Fulton Street near Nostrand Avenue (some background here):

Stuyvesant Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant:

Also, the Broadway Junction Subway Station . . .
In Bushwick, the Myrtle Avenue-Broadway Subway Station and Myrtle Avenue:

Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick:

Wyckoff Avenue in Bushwick:

This is a real estate bubble-era luxury development that has been turned into a halfway house (some background here):

Lunch at Roberta’s . . . and a few hours at the Bushwick Hotel.

Beach, Bridge, Shawarma

Our long-dormant EZ-Pass got a workout towards the end of August, when we borrowed a friend’s car to go to and fro. First stop, Jacob Riis Beach in the Rockaways, which is actually not as nice as the City-run Rockaway Beach:

Later that day we got takeout at Karam’s Restaurant in Bay Ridge:

Traveling between Rockaway Peninsula and Brooklyn meant traversing another bridge, the Marine Parkway Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens:

Look At This Hipster

The first Jelly Pool Party of the summer took place on July 12 at a new venue, East River State Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn:

The setting on the East River with the Midtown skyline behind the stage was gorgeous, and it’s nice to see the park put to such good use — again, it seems like the State Parks Department is doing all the cool stuff these days. The only drawback with having the stage set up with that stunning backdrop was that the setting sun was a little bright behind the bands, but if you stood to the left of the stage (stage right?), it wasn’t too bad.

This is not a photograph:

One of the strangest, most loopy and generally awesome things I’ve seen in some time was Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz introducing headliners Mission of Burma (unfortunately, I missed the first part . . .):