On our first morning, we explored the neighborhood a bit on foot, walking south toward Prospect Park. We are between Williamsburg (trendy artsy hipster neighborhood) to the north and Prospect Park (designed by the same folks who created Central Park) to the south. On the way south, we stopped for breakfast at Tom's Diner. I found out later it is actually the Tom's Diner from Suzanne Vega's song ("I am sitting in the window at the diner on the corner...") The neighborhood is an interesting mix of getting-more-expensive homes and statements about what gentrification can mean...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
More Neighborhood
On our first morning, we explored the neighborhood a bit on foot, walking south toward Prospect Park. We are between Williamsburg (trendy artsy hipster neighborhood) to the north and Prospect Park (designed by the same folks who created Central Park) to the south. On the way south, we stopped for breakfast at Tom's Diner. I found out later it is actually the Tom's Diner from Suzanne Vega's song ("I am sitting in the window at the diner on the corner...") The neighborhood is an interesting mix of getting-more-expensive homes and statements about what gentrification can mean...
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Fredrick Law Olmstead was the designer (or one of the designers of Central Park.
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