When Waris Dirie said that “Brooklyn’s good. Brooklyn’s funky. Brooklyn’s happening.“ I think she may as well have been talking about the food. After all, it would be a travesty to serve this hip neighborhood with unimaginative, lackluster food. Stereotypically known to be the home of creatives and various ethnic groups, this borough oozes with that…
HELLO BROOKLYN
One of the highlights of my recent New York trip was crossing from DUMBO to Downtown Manhattan via the Brooklyn Bridge. Over a century old, I can just imagine how many people have passed through this stone and cable structure and what kind of stories they carried. Walking through it makes you feel like…
CHERRY BLOSSOMS
To be honest, I didn’t think I’d be seeing cherry blossoms anytime soon. I would looove to visit Japan one day but haven’t had the opportunity to do so yet. Enter the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and their super pretty Cherry Walk. As luck would have it, I was there when majority of the trees were in…