Killer Photo Tours of Brooklyn!

[jsoto3]

'No words, they should have sent a poet' . . . .
or Mark Warren . . . .

Williamsburg, Brooklyn: Hipper Than Thou (http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=35745)
Brooklyn: Found My Thrill on Vinegar Hill (http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=36196)
Red-Hooked on Brooklyn: Not for the Gritophobic! (http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=37291)
Brooklyn Tour Part 4: Gritless Brooklyn Heights (http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=37586)
Brooklyn Tour Part 5: My Coney Island Babushka (http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=38161)
Back to Brooklyn Part 6: Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens (http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39532)

and a bit of the Bronx:
South Bronx: Port Morris, Mott Haven, The Hub (http://www.skyscraperpage.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=38896)

You've gotta love the internet urban photo phenomenon! I do! Takes the edge off of my temporary inability to travel. And makes me question why I continue to live in Dallas . . . .

[drumguy8800]

hrmmmm

*squeemish*

I think I'll stay in Dallas. Nice.. safe.. Dallas.

That looks unbelievably scary.. and I think that I like Dallas' take on new-urbanism.. i.e. West Village.. etc.... oop, Brooklyn Heights. Now thats nice. Brooklyn Heights is what we want to see.

Not the Bronx. Or any of those other places.

I think I'm.. like one of the titles of those galleries states.. "gritophobic"

[js]

sweet...
I love it, now that is urban. You can't just plan that the diffrent types of architecture in all of those buildings.

[sterling]

Awwww scaredy cat... Most of these places aren't nearly as scary as they seem. Just remember not every neighborhood photographs like a piece of art and you'll be OK.

My brother always asks me if NYC is as dirty as it looks on TV. Why? Because everything doesn't match? Some parts are dirty of course, but by in large is pretty clean. You have to get out and walk around and realize a lot of these buildings are older than the city of Dallas itself. Texas usually tears down anything half this old. Once you get used to the context all this is in, it seems perfectly natural and even charming. One thing I love about New York is that everything is part of this crazy jigsaw puzzle of all types of buildings. I find it invigorating, and many of the older ornate buildings awe inspiring. And some of these old commercial buildings so ugly on the outside, have some pretty spectacular lofts, artist studios and the like, for interiors. From the outside you'd never know. I kind've like that too.

[gc]

wow, those are great pics. santiago is on the money...that is urban

[Columbus Civil]

If you squint, you can almost see Stonebriar.

[mikedsjr]

And the urbanites of Dallas want to get rid of all the homeless. ;)

They won't be urbanites anymore. They will be suburbanites living in Townhomes with no yards 3 miles from DTD.

I can certainly find it to be a very cool experience to go there and take photos.

I have a question. How far away are the suburbs from this area with big yards and 2 car garages? And you didn't take any photos of basketball courts. Are there not that many?

[psukhu]

I have a question. How far away are the suburbs from this area with big yards and 2 car garages? And you didn't take any photos of basketball courts. Are there not that many?

The norm in Nassau County is pretty much a 1 car garage, because of when most of the houses were built. Of course there are exceptions where the homes were updated. (there are also pockets of new suburban development here and there)


I have an uncle that lives in Jamaica Estates. It is a few miles from Brooklyn.

http://www.photosoftheworld.com/IPIX/TurnKey/JamaicaEstates/JamaicaEstates.htm

http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/spectown/hist000k.htm


I also have an Aunt that lives in Howard Beach. It is very similar and just a few miles from Brooklyn.

[sterling]

It seems like Queens (the further east you go) has more suburb type dwellings than Brooklyn. Still a few miles east of Manhattan (say 30 minutes from Penn Station) to Forest Hills (including the famous gold course) and the like. Just north of Manhattan, Riverdale has some spectacular homes that overlook the Hudson (45 minutes north of Penn on the subway, 30 minutes or less on Amtrak). A bit further north is Westchester County (pretty toney), big old homes, lots of golf courses. And New Jersey (west of the grittier close-in cities like Newark) has the most "Dallas-like" burbs (45-1 hr west of Penn Station on New Jersey Transit). Actually, places like Short Hills and Far Hills etc... remind me a LOT of Texas burbs, complete with malls, low apartment complexes and lots of parking, large yards and sprawling new homes. I always think of Texas when I'm there. I think real estate in New York City is generally denser until you get to those Long Island communities about an hour north(via Long Island Railroad), and they are much more expensive than New Jersey (generally). Though both Queens and Brooklyn are on Long Island proper, they are the very urbanized southern tip of it. Development "peters out" the further north you go.