Category: NYC

Farewell, Summer!

Posted on by Hijiri

This week has been a lot cooler than it had been and just wanted to write about my first summer in NYC. Yes, it was hot and humid, some days were just out of control and too gross, but other than that, I loved it and I enjoyed it!

One of my favorite things about NYC summer is this Mister Softee ice cream truck. It was everywhere in NYC, but the one came to my street every single night, stopped right across the street for a while and I heard that song (when you go to their homepage, you can hear it!) every night and thought it was the cutest thing ever. Reminded me of Japanese truck just like this that sold bread when I was little and they had a song, too.

I also saw a lot of fireflies! That was the coolest thing ever! I never seen that many before so I was so so amazed. I saw a lot of bugs that I didn’t wanna see, too, though…

and all the outdoor events… I wish I could’ve gone to more, though, it is impossible to catch up with everything here. Especially, summer time, a lot going on everywhere, all the time!

Brooklyn Bridge

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I left my blog on Labor Day…. to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge (from Brooklyn to Manhattan) for the first time! Oh my god, it was the coolest bridge experience ever! I’ve walked across Golden Gate Bridge before and yes it was so pretty, but long, windy, cold, grey and a bit scary… (if you are in SF, you know exactly what I’m talking about!) Brooklyn Bridge was shorter than I thought, it was nice and hot out, the Bridge is so special, and it’s the Manhattan view that it just gets me every time. It is simply stunning. I’d love to go back there at night time, I don’t even know how gorgeous that would be!

I took a lot of pictures, and here are some.

Right by the staircase to the Bridge:

Here we go:

Walking lane and Biker’s lane:

s t r o n g:

More waterfalls:

The bridge grid – I love it:

Downtown on the left:

Midtown on the right:

Proud Maia:

Charlie Parker Jazz Festival

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Last weekend was the 15th annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and I got to go to Sunday one at Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. Charlie Parker is one of my favorite jazz musicians so I really wanted to go to honor his music – so did everyone in the park!

There was this artist in the park – he draws jazz! Pretty cool.

Prospect Park

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Saturday was our big park day! I love the fact that Prospect Park is a few blocks away from our apartment and we’ve heard that before 9am and after 9pm, you can have your dogs off-leash in certain areas and so many dogs come and play on the weekends – that was Maia’s debut! I must admit that Maia is our big motivations because we never woke up early and go to park before or never even went to park to do activities before!

In the morning. It was so beautiful out! (Click to see a larger image)

We saw Hime – 8 years old dachshund in our neighborhood and she looks like Maia!

Hime and her Mom and Maia (she is jumping on her):

Here we go – so many dogs running around and playing!

This is Long Meadow. There is a dog beach here, too.

And then…. at night, we met up with our friends with their dog at Nethermead. We never been this area so it was cool to explore more in the park.

I like the path:

Wait for me-

Here we are – it was getting so dark that I couldn’t take more pictures from here on, but we had a great time! Maia had the best time ever!