Brooklyn's Prospect Park / Coney Island
Prospect Park. Began with Prospect Park, which is a fairly large park right in the middle of Brooklyn. The majority of the park consists of lengthy trails for bikes, trails for walkers, and trails for runners. Seemed fairly safe. It also had a large Botanical Garden and a small farmers market. One vendor at the farmers market sold "farm fresh eggs" for $3.50 a dozen...I buy mine in Moscow for $1. Was going to ask the variety of chickens, but too many people were trying to buy the eggs and didn't want to disrupt the flow of business, especially since I wasn't in the market for buying eggs. Any way, I took pictures of the Park and Botanical Gardens. Click Here.
Coney Island. The Park was an unplanned stop as I accidentally got off at the wrong subway stop, so I figured I would take the little 2 hour walk through the Park. I really intended a trip to Coney Island. I went there with the expectations of seeing the same thing...small, community-based piers, streets, and the like. Nope. Its basically a really old amusement park that borders the Atlantic Ocean. Had lunch at this place called Nathan's, which is home to a huge hot dog eating contest. It was pretty good, but then found another place selling other kinds of hot dogs, so I had a second lunch. Within about 30 minutes, I managed 3 large hotdogs, two orders of cheese fries (had to support the potato industry), and two "original lemonades." It was a bit difficult to manage and figured I would need to walk it off. Went through the major section of Coney Island (amusement park on one side, beach on the other) and out onto the pier. Lots of people were fishing on the pier...some for crab...some for striped bass and flounder...some for anything that swam. It reminded me of the Little Salmon River during fishing season: people were practically shoulder to shoulder. All I know is that I definitely wouldn't eat anything out of that part of the ocean and I certainly wouldn't be swimming in it. After nearly 6 hours of walk around, I got back on the subway and fell asleep until my stop...reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry fell asleep and woke up next to a naked, fat guy reading the newspaper. Ok, this posting is long enough. Here's some pictures of Coney Island. Click Here.
Tomorrow's agenda: the Reading Room of the NYC Public Library; Inside Grand Central Station; and Fiesta Night at a friend's house.
Coney Island. The Park was an unplanned stop as I accidentally got off at the wrong subway stop, so I figured I would take the little 2 hour walk through the Park. I really intended a trip to Coney Island. I went there with the expectations of seeing the same thing...small, community-based piers, streets, and the like. Nope. Its basically a really old amusement park that borders the Atlantic Ocean. Had lunch at this place called Nathan's, which is home to a huge hot dog eating contest. It was pretty good, but then found another place selling other kinds of hot dogs, so I had a second lunch. Within about 30 minutes, I managed 3 large hotdogs, two orders of cheese fries (had to support the potato industry), and two "original lemonades." It was a bit difficult to manage and figured I would need to walk it off. Went through the major section of Coney Island (amusement park on one side, beach on the other) and out onto the pier. Lots of people were fishing on the pier...some for crab...some for striped bass and flounder...some for anything that swam. It reminded me of the Little Salmon River during fishing season: people were practically shoulder to shoulder. All I know is that I definitely wouldn't eat anything out of that part of the ocean and I certainly wouldn't be swimming in it. After nearly 6 hours of walk around, I got back on the subway and fell asleep until my stop...reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where Jerry fell asleep and woke up next to a naked, fat guy reading the newspaper. Ok, this posting is long enough. Here's some pictures of Coney Island. Click Here.
Tomorrow's agenda: the Reading Room of the NYC Public Library; Inside Grand Central Station; and Fiesta Night at a friend's house.
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