Day out in Brooklyn

My friend was kind enough to take me around her neighborhood of Brooklyn on my last day in NY. I hope I have that kind of energy a few decades from now. We walked over the Brooklyn Bridge so I could see things from that perspective, then went to the Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Museum. I rushed back to Times Square to see the Moulin Rouge musical – it was amazing and had additional recent pop music mixed in since the film to make it even more fun. It was a sweet final taste of NY!

 

Brooklyn Bridge

Skyline from the Bridge

Interesting acronym here - DUMBO stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass

Boats out

Checked out the brownstone buildings

Dogwalkers are for real

Great architecture and bustling city life

Gorgeous Brooklyn Public Library – so culturally enriched even just at the entrance

Library is trying to go for a more bookstore vibe to attract readers

Library space looked inviting

Brooklyn Museum had mummies and an interesting explanation of how recent feminist scholarship has shown that some women were honored with male names temporarily to trick the gods, something like that, that it wasn’t a typo like previous scholars thought

The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago – a feminist art display from the 1970s – a reimagining of a dinner party with famous women across history (eg Artemisia Gentileschi). Each place setting is customized to a particular woman, and they get more elaborate the closer they get to modern times.

Artemisia Gentileschi place setting

Mary Wollstonecraft place setting

Emily Dickinson place setting

Another beautiful Tiffany stained glass

Classic George

Love that Romanticism

Classic Abe

Kehinde Wiley’s modern take on Napoleon (explanation follows)

Brooklyn Museum

More brownstone buildings

Moulin Rouge musical – amazing and had additional recent pop music mixed in since the film

Downtown was happenin’ at night