Imma up in Brooklyn...

Something I didn't do the last time I was in NYC was cross the Brooklyn Bridge so me and Spu ticked it off this time around! We decided that the best way to do this was to take the subway to the Brooklyn side and then cross the nearly 2km of bridge back to the Manhattan side.

Thanks for the welcome!

Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass - an attempt by artists and other people of the area to give the area an unattractive name to stave off gentrification. Apparently it didn't work.

The Brooklyn side - later we found that it was not as crowded as the Manhattan side.

Funny though, me and Spu are usually good for random trivia but neither of us on the day could recall why. Turns out it was the first steel-wire suspension bridge, and one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world.

Those steel wires make for some damn interesting patterns

Completed in 1883, the towers are of neo-gothic design

Views of Manhattan from the bridge

The err...view of Brooklyn from the bridge

Spot the Spuey part 1!

YEAH!!!!

The Manhattan Municipal Building - nice Beaux-Arts architecture.

Spot the Spuey part 2!