This would be my second weekend in a row visiting Brooklyn. Now that’s an anomaly since I rarely visit that borough, being that it takes an hour train ride. But I needed to visit BAM to exchange performance tickets. Since I’ve been told time and again from my friend, Chris to visit the Flea Market at the Skylight One Hanson and I didn’t want my trip to Brooklyn wasted on changing tickets, I walked around the corner and found the entrance to the winter flea market.
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Vinegar Hill & More
Groundhog Chuck (from Staten Island) said that it was going to be an early spring and I decided to leave hibernation mode and finally explore the world. Having started a new job and enjoying the cosiness of my warm apartment, I forgot what a real world was like. WIth my boyfriend, we went on our first date-ploration of the year, visiting a place I had on my checklist of places to visit in 2013.
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Exploring Red Hook
Abandoned Trolleys in Red Hook
Before IKEA moved in and claimed Red Hook as a Swedish meatball landmark, Red Hook was an abandoned warehouse area much like most of the East River front walk from LIC, Greenpoint and down towards Brooklyn Navy Yard. When I first moved to the city, I never visited the area much but in the past five+ years, many of these abandoned waterfront were renovated with beautiful parks, walkways, warehouses converted into condominiums and/or art houses, and random restaurants popped up. It used to be an inconvenient place to travel to without a car but with increase population, the city added ferries and water taxis. Of course, with IKEA across the river, Manhattanites swarmed to IKEA in the droves.
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