Rounding off the series of posts on my second visit New York City is another look at Manhattan itself, the only borough which I visited on the first trip.
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Weekend in the Catskills
After spending a week in the urban jungle that is New York City, I got the opportunity to visit a small part of the Catskill Mountains and stay in a beautiful log cabin for a weekend. It was a great and vastly different experience.
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More Brooklyn Wanderings
While some parts of my Brooklyn explorations were planned or concentrated to specific neighbourhoods, there was also a fair amount of other random wandering around around the other parts of the borough. This last post on the Brooklyn section of my NYC trip shows the highlights of these random wanderings.
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Coney Island
Coney Island, with its beach and collection of small amusement parks, feels a world away from the rest of the New York City. I spent one afternoon there on my last trip to NYC to take photos and ride the Cyclone.
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DUMBO, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Brooklyn Heights
Walking from DUMBO to Brooklyn Heights and out to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade is a pleasant experience, as is a stroll along the waterfront through Brooklyn Bridge Park. These were some of my favourite places to hang out and relax during my trip to NYC.
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Food Explorations in Williamsburg
Extending from the East River in the northern part of Brooklyn, Williamsburg is a fairly large, gentrified neighbourhood full of interesting cafes with great food, and my explorations took me through a number of them over several days.
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Crossing Bridges
When visiting New York City, one wouldn't usually consider walking across a bridge to be one of the highlights. Yet on my second trip to the city in July last year, I crossed the Brooklyn Bridge (twice), the Manhattan Bridge (also twice) and the Williamsburg Bridge as part of my explorations.
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