MANHATTAN’S streets I saunter’d pondering
— Walt Whitman
photographs taken by Roger W. Smith
April 2016
The Brooklyn Bridge, which spans the East River, was completed in 1883. Since its opening, it has been a New York City landmark.
Walking over the Brooklyn Bridge and through Brooklyn is a great way for me to get home from Manhattan. Our neighborhood in Queens is very close to the Brooklyn border.
The Brooklyn Bridge has a boardwalk and is usually crowed with pedestrians and cyclists. Everyone seems to be in a good mood. Many people taking photos.
It’s a walk that gives me a high.
It’s about four miles or so from our house to the bridge; and vice versa. I like walking the pedestrian streets of Brooklyn. (By pedestrian here, I means the word in the sense of ordinary, lacking excitement per se.) They are on a human scale.
— Roger W. Smith
December 2016
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photographs (with one exception) by Roger W. Smith
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See also my post
“Is the Brooklyn Bridge boardwalk too crowded?”
This view of of Sunnyside, Queens, NYC from the No. 7 elevated train platform was taken by my son, Henry W. Smith.
— posted by Roger W. Smith
March 2016
