A bridge too far

As anticipated, it has been a busy week, not a work, but in the evenings.
Babeth and Antoine finally showed up late on Tueday evening, arriving from Atlanta.
They had planned a very organized visit of Manhattan for the week... and they did it. Congratulations!
As for us, it was the opportunity to show them the places we knew and liked, and try to share a part of of New York life style.
Sushi restaurant, small lively jazz club, cheap chinese food to go, happy hour in trad pubs, this has been our daily evenings this week. And we all enjoyed!
See Antoine's pictures at http://sky.myblog.fr/
On Thursday it was St Patrick, but we prefered drinking Irish the day before, joining the masses in smelly and packed bars on this very day looked like non sense... Who said French are snobs? ;-)) As you can see between Washington square ark, the Empire State building turned green that night.


On Saturday, we headed up to Brooklyn, crossing the East River on the famous Brooklyn Bridge.



Tourist crowd on Brooklyn bridge

We then visited two very different neigborhoods : Dumbo (like the new yet-to-become hype area) which still looks like Starsky and Hutch, and Brookyn Heights, a much more conservative area, with quiet streets lined with trees and brownstones, one subway stop away from Wall Street, ie boasting rent in the same range as Manhattan.


View on downtown Manhattan from Brooklyn heights


Manhattan bridge