Last week was a whirlwind. I visited a ton of different neighborhoods and museums all with my iphone in hand the entire time ready to snap away. I got to walk around Madison Square Park and tour the Flatiron District for free with a very intelligent guide on Sunday. He gave us information on the development of the park and the history of the different buildings that surround it.
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| Statue of Seward |
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| Flatiron |
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| This was the entrance to a now out of business restaurant. Notice the removed handles, shaped like flatirons. |
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| one of the multiple statues in Madison Square Park |
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| This was the line for the Shake Shack inside the park, in actuality three times this size. |
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| I really liked this building entrance on E. 23rd Street. |
On Wednesday I finally made my way to the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side, one block from Central Park. It was a stifling day, so the museum was unusually crammed, but I made my way through the various halls. The animal displays were remarkable in their scope and detail. But of course the history of dinosaurs taking up the entirety of the fourth floor was the most fascinating. I wish I could have taken my nephews who probably wouldn't have been able to contain themselves at the sight of all the replicas of dinosaurs and fossils.
On Friday I went down to the DUMBO neighborhood that lies right along the East River in Brooklyn. Dumbo stands for down under manhattan bridge overpass, and it has some of the most striking street art I've seen in any neighborhood. I'll definitely be going back to DUMBO's cobble stone streets, huge industrial buildings, and the epic Brooklyn Roasting Company (coffee!) to take more pictures but for now here is street art from just one short block on my stroll through DUMBO.
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