Pizza and the Brooklyn Bridge
Last night after arriving in New York and relaxing from lugging the bags around for a couple hours we headed into Brooklyn to visit my Cousin Crista and her husband Tiago.
They live in DUMBO, an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
While we were coming through the long tiled hall of the subway to the street she was telling us that before the gentrification of the area this hallway used to be crowded with Heroin Addicts. Over the course of the evening we learned that people that live down here are either work in the Creative/Artistic or Financial fields.
We ordered take out (the “Best Pizza in New York”) from Grimaldi’s which is right under the Brooklyn Bridge. Walking to the video store to return a Video my Cousin and her husband had rented, I was surprised to see the exact entrance to the walkway on the Brooklyn Bridge that Eric and I had walked through 4 years earlier when we walked across the bridge from the Manhattan side. I never would have imagined walking by this entrance 4 years later just a block away from my Cousins apartment.
We had a nice dinner and some fun wine, Vino Verde from the Quintada Aveleda vinyard in Portugal. It was a Branco Seco, a very light sparkly wine perfect for a hot summer day and causual enough for pizza. Crista made a nice salad she augmented with home grown tomatoes from their balcony garden (which also provided fresh basil for the pizza as they had ‘shorted’ us on the basil a little bit).
After we had relaxed and digested for a little while we waled down to the dock under the Brooklyn Bridge to have some fresh Ice Cream. The Bridge looked great as we sat beneath it talking about living in the city, weddings, new babies, architecture and art.
After all the conversation, wine and food we left for our hotel room. Naturally we got on the train going the wrong way and didn’t realize it till we were halfway to Coney Island.
Today we are off to the “Baseball as America” exhibit of Cooperstown pieces at the America Museum of Natural History. I’m a little put off by baseball today as yesterday the Baseball player’s union set a strike date of August 30th. Lots of press against the players over this but it’s really a both the owners and the players.
