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New York City: Brooklyn Greenpoint
während unserer New York -Reise (April '05) durften wir in 'Brooklyn Greenpoint'
wohnen - eine nette, angenehme, und eher ruhige Nachbarschaft - zumindest war
das unsere Erfahrung...
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New York City
Brooklyn Greenpoint |
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People will tell you anyways that only a few years ago this area used to be a
completely different story. And somehow you can almost hear the echo of this other
story.
This part of Brooklyn has a quite high percentage of "polish people"
living and working here - it is also refered to beeing "the Polish Neighbourhood"
of New York / Brooklyn. At least you will find quite a variety of eastern european,
especially polish products in the shops located on and around Manhattan Avenue,
sausages (butchers' shops), deli-shops, hidden second hand shops and much more.
The pictures were not taken on Manhattan Avenue, one of the "shopping streets"
of Greenpoint, but mostly in the backstreets of Manhattan Avenue - and around.
Of course I can't cover all of "The Point" with just one set of pictures
- for further information and
more pictures etc. this might be a rather good starting point: www.greenpt.com
the 'skyline' of Brooklyn / Greenpoint is probably not as well known as the manhattan
skyline but nonetheless very interesting - and shurely much more comfortable to
sit on..:)
Manhattans skyline is somehow 'lurking'..
cats'n'pope'n'rock'n'roll.. Greenpoint is also known for its 'polish neighbourhood'
- so when the pope died shortly before our NYC-trip, people decorated their houses,
attached black ribbons to the flags and sometimes looked sadly out of the kitchen
window - just like this neighbour's cat..
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