Wandering New York

Part of the fun of living in New York is exploring its many different areas.   A friend recently sent me a link to a blog done by someone who decided to walk every street in Manhattan.   I would love to do that to!   In the meantime, there are always surprises and changes, good things and bad things, but always something of interest.
On a recent slightly snowy day I was walking around the World Trade Center area, hoping to walk along the river.  Unfortunately, it began snowing so hard that I needed to go inside.

Thus I was in what used to be called the Winter Garden.  It is now a very glitzy high-end shopping mall with the usual retail suspects.   They do have a nice light show, though, and a very good food market.

One major focus of interest in the area is the gigantic and expensive transit hub designed by Santiago Calatrava, which is a truly startling piece of architecture.   One part is open now, a pedestrian tunnel leading from the Brookfield Place shopping area to the world trade center area.  It is very strange, all in pure white stone (marble?).  Beautiful and very sterile at the same time.

From the outside, the transit hub is a strange apparition, especially on a snowy day when everything is white and grey (and I am tilting my camera).

Seen from inside Brookfield Place.

On another day, I went to an exhibit at the New Museum, which I will write about elsewhere.   Being in the Lower East Side, it seemed like a good day to walk across the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn.   The bridge has a great pedestrian path, above the traffic and separated from the bicycle path.   It was a grey day, and the bridge itself is a peculiar combination of grey with pink railings and fences.   Everywhere you walk, you are surrounded by fences.

The beginning.  Not a lot of people on a cold and grey day.

Views to the side of the traffic coming in to Manhattan.

 Now I am looking through fences. Pink is everywhere.

People have drawn very long lines on the pavement. They go on for a very long time.  A conceptual art project?

A slightly different color.

Now the grey starts to take over.

Eventually, I start to get dizzy.

Near the top.

A subway goes by right next to me.

At the top, there is  place where you can stand right over the subway tracks.

The remaining building of the Domino Sugar Factory (soon to be a huge development on the Williamsburg shoreline).

Eventually, the bridge comes to an end. I've had enough pink and grey.