Booklyn Heights

Visiting Brooklyn Heights was a great experience because I haven’t expected to see  beautiful places in Brooklyn like this neighborhood .

My favorite place was the promenade. I loved the niece view of Manhattan and I also liked the contrast between the pieces of the statue of liberty and the big skyscrapers. It was a great experience to be in that place.

The peace on NYC

At this Little place, where you discover that New york city is also a quiet place if you decide to stay in that way. Too many people choose to do with life a time game instead of finding the peace just in watching the world and clouds moving. This was the most interesting place for me because I did not see a lot of people running in the daily life or with long faces. The world just kept in silence for a while.

Broklyn

Last friday we meet at Broklyn, we apreciate a beatiful view in Broklyn Bridge. The neighborhood it's really nice; it's more clean than other neighborhoods and I think it's a nice place to visit.

 

DISCOVERING BROOKLYN HEIGHTS 

 

 

 

Brooklyn Heights is a beautiful neighborhood in New York City; the houses are beautiful and they have a lot of history. Take a walk here is like walking in a Hollywood movie. It was my favorite part of Brooklyn definitely. I would highly recommend this place for other tourists; it must be on the agenda whenever you visit NYC.

 



Despite the cold weather...

Despite The Cold Weather

 Despite the cold weather; I liked the tripe we had last week, seeing those beautiful mansions which were live by wealthy people.

 I loved this view that we can see nearby Brooklyn Bridge!

...and what can I say about this image? I really like this image because the view, the color effects, the building in the  background.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn seems to me a very interesting neighborhood in New York. It is a place that is not much visited by tourists but it has beautiful views and interesting places.

Brooklyn Bridge  is an example where you can have a beautiful view of Manhattan´s buildings.

A poem || Brooklyn Bridge.

Just a few words to describe the quantity of feelings that this bridge produced in me. I love the Brooklyn Bridge because it looks like an old construction from many centuries ago, and when I see the buildings around I realize where I am and the contrast is really beautiful. Also, it looks very romantic and homesick; like a camera that records all the love stories...



 And now, a poem c:


 Monster of stone

What are you connecting?
How many souls are you holding in your arms of metal?
How many centuries will you be kissing the River?
How many skies will you be reflecting?

I saw your eyes of stone yesterday
they were looking above me
but they couldn't see me
but they couldn't catch me.

I will never say goodbye to you
Maybe my tears will...
I will only move around, protecting you
saying we'll see us again.


Monster of stone: don't kiss the River
Stare at me during the morning, during your centuries...
Monster of stone: never shiver
Instead, stare at my eyes of mercury.

Big houses

This is one of the big houses in brookly. this one is kinda a mansion, or used to be. now most of the big houses that were built a lot of time ago are appartments, store or office. 

New york is growing very fast and they need more and more places to live and more places for bussines.

This side of brooklyn is one of the most expensive neighborhood to live in new york. but is one of the pretiest neighborhood.

I wish I could've started from here. 

Now it looks way better. 

I guess looking at things from the inside,

quickly changing, moving and turning around

isn't always wise. 

Sometimes it's better to look at things from the distance. 

To look at them from the outside.

Slowly walking, as senseless noon

shoves cold wind in your face

along with the distant sounds

of the life you love and hate. 

I wish I could've started from here, 

looking at life from the outside... 

This week we went to Downton Brooklyn that is such as a amazing place as Manhattan, it was really fun get to know the other side of the city, special because Brooklyn it so big and has so many things. 
The park was my favorite part of all, in this place you are able to se all the city and stay near to the beach also you can see the Brooklyn bridge and under this an amazing carousel that makes you feel like magic, everything was beautiful. 

Brooklyn Bridge

This Friday was a wonderful day. We visit many exciting places but the one that I liked most was the Brooklyn bridge park. It has an amazing view of Manhattan. All the nature that has on it. Is an excellent place for having relaxing time because you can go to run, exercise yourself or just go and sit and reading a book. I thing that at night it will have a better view with all lights in Manhattan. Is was a great experience, I hope I will be there again.

Dumbo!

even though i have been in this part of Brooklyn before, it was such a great time to enjoy the view at daylight. All the history that involves the park above the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridge it´s worth the cold weather. Such a good luck that every Friday is cold. I think that the part that i liked most, was the Grand Theft Auto recreation of the sky, i mean it comes from a video game and its being shown in a public part, that´s amazing.

Also the view from the neighborhood of the Jehova´s witnesses is amazing tho, and walking under the Manhattan bridge and also the postal of the empire state between the space under the bridge is very cool.  

Mixed emotions in Brooklyn Bay.

Mixed emotions in Brooklyn Bay.

While we were walking by the river, I found a couple of die herrings lying on the water. I take one of them and these fish make me wonder.

The view was beautiful and I can see the river, the buildings, and a park in construction on the water.

A construction that is able to remember about the storms and the force of the winds and hurricanes.

Quiet and peaceful flowing water that hide an enormous power when is disturbed.  

Silent and death, the herring was witness of my steps walking by the river.  

BOROUGH HALL, 1848

 

 

Brooklyn Borough Hall was the first building I saw when we started our class, and it capture my attention, I think it is beautiful and interesting. I learn that it was designed by architects Calvin Pollard, and Gamaliel King. It was completed in 1848 to be used as the city hall of the former city of Brooklyn. In January 1898 the independent City of Brooklyn merged with the City of New York, and Kings County became the Borough of Brooklyn, at which time the building became Brooklyn Borough Hall.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Wall Street

 

Wall Street is the name of a street in New York. It is a market where financial traders , agents and customers meet to buy and sell stocks and bonds. This is supervised by the Securities and Exchange Commission

 

 

 

 



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Into Wall street

i´m glad that we had to know this part of the city, because i had not realized how many details it has. The weather wasn´t that favorable for us, but i have to applaud that we handled the situation very good. i would say that my favorite part was at the city hall, where all over the park there were these pieces of the statue of liberty. I think that is pretty amazing though.

THE FINANCIAL HEART OF NYC

Wall street is one of the most famous streets in the world; here are located the main financial markets in the world. Wall St. is the home of the New York Stock Exchange, the world largest stock exchange. The buildings here are beautiful; you can feel armony and the passion for the economics. New York City has been called the principal financial center in the world. The street has a lot of historical buildings such as the Federal Hall. This city has a lot of things to discover, and also tons of places where you can feel like if you were in heaven. 

City Hall Tour

We walk arround the city hall the last friday, and we learn about the history of some buildings that was very interesant also the view was amazing!

Even if a haven´t had the chance to take part of the tour with my class, I was able to visit the same places as you all did. The most interesting place that I found was the park near to the city hall station which has some pieces of the statue of the liberty. I had the chance to take a close view to these big parts of the statue and to see the original color of them. Another amusing place was the new world trade center and the small church that it´s in front of this huge skyscraper. Inside this church there is a memorial for all the police and rescue teams from all around the world who helped to save lives after the 9/11.

When the original Federal Hall was demolished in 1812, a few remnants were saved. The large brownstone section of the balcony floor upon which George Washington stood was removed to the grounds of Bellevue Hospital, where it was exhibited for many years. In 1889, the stone was returned to its original site and displayed here at 26 Wall Street in the U. S. Subtreasury building (now Federal Hall National Memorial) for the commemoration of the centennial of Washington's inauguration. It was also covered with a thin skim of cement in order for the inscription to be applied.

Winter Garden.

An amazin place that is located by the Hudson River. We come back there a few times to get a lunch in the great restaurantes enjoying the beautifull view of the river.

perfect view

took a picture from the swiss hunger monument! 

was an awesome view from there!! 

there are so many places that are not main points for the toursit but those places should be because are very intersting.

Week 3 We meet in Brooklyn!

Hello, everyone,

Good job on your posts!

I hope you had a good week.   Don't forget to post a blog entry and a comment on your classmates'  posts for each of our 3 weeks.

Friday, Dec. 5--We meet in front of the TD Bank, corner of Montague Street and Court Street (or Cadman Plaza West) in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood, also called Downtown Brooklyn.

Subway stops: Court Street/Borough Hall--2,4, R.

See you Friday!
Sofia