Having had a wonderful trip to Liberty Island here Meeting Ms Liberty, we continued the usage of our hop-on-hop off bus tour to Brooklyn. We were informed by the very informative tour guide that Brooklyn was in its early days occupied by Dutch settlers hence the name "Brooklyn" came from the Dutch word or "Breukelen" which means "broken land". It was also named after a village in Holland of the same name. Nowadays, Brooklyn is one of the 5 boroughs (or municipal administration) of New York, the others being Manhattan, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. And no other icon can best be associated with Brooklyn than the world's famous Brooklyn Bridge.
From Battery Park enroute to Brooklyn we passed the financial district of Wall Street...
Yes. at this particular time gay marriage had just been legalized in NYC....
Our bus also took as along China Town....
and as this tour is dedicated to capture the best of Brooklyn, it's just proper for us not to drive onto Brooklyn Bridge as we wouldnt be able to take picture of it...hence we took the Manhattan Bridge so that we would be able to take capture Brooklyn Bridge with our camera....
and the bridge in its full glory with Manhattan skylines as its backdrop
Once passed Brooklyn Bridge, we finally entered Brooklyn city centre, obviously the surroundings here are less crowded than downtown Manhattan. We were also informed that many New Yorker prefer to live (or have to) live outside Manhattan due to high cost of living and houses therein, thus Brooklyn is one of the area where most New Yorkers live. This is also where most of those homes in most Hollywood dramas or films featuring New York city is filmed, one in particular is Sex & The City.
There are many parks here and it's also famous for its Brooklyn Zoo....
We passed underneath Brooklyn Bridge...
Manhattan from the other side.....
mosque and Muslim restaurants/shops...
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, tallest building in Brooklyn
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch...
Brooklyn Art Museum...
my favourite fried chicken is here!
We made our way back to Manhattan and our last view of Brooklyn Bridge...
Being our last day in New York we decided to end the night with a walk in Times Square...
Times Square at night is thousand times better than in the day as all buildings are lit up with kaleidoscope of colours...
It was the most hippest and happening place ive ever been todate. Im really missing NYC now and its fast moving life. I believe this is where the American Dreams are created and lived in.
Tomorrow we'll be venturing into US administrative capitol city of Washington DC and we'll be taking a train ride in America's AMTrak rail line...stay tuned for more in my Journey North America-Kay2011
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