brooklyn bus tour

so i've been a complete tourists these last couple of days, and it's awesome. on monday i did the double deck tour bus of brooklyn. which i was really excited about cause frankly, i'm not a brooklyn fan. so i figured this would be a great way to really give it a chance. ha. and it was great. i could definitely live in cobble hill, or park slope or brooklyn heights. all so charming and feel as if your in the upper west side (where i live now) or in west village. which is my love. but anyway, the fist two pictures are of the brooklyn bridge. i only got the one with the trees from the bus ride. i actually walked the bridge before i got on the tour cause i had some time to kill, so i got a real close up one that way. it's so beautiful, and fun fact... so the engineer (John A. Roebling) the was running/designing the show died (he got an infection in his foot, and his foot got crushed or something.. he died) so then his son took over, Washington Roebling. then the son got sick and died... so then his wife Emily took over the project. she was the first civil american engineer. and running the biggest project (i think in the world). she was running it for 11 years. when the bridge opened the president came and cut the ribbon and said the famous words, "behind every great man there is a great woman" so thats where that came from.

one last fact, so you know how you should never scream fire in a crowded theater? well when the bridge opened it was a major attraction and everyone was on it. well one day this stupid person screamed, "the bridge is collasping!!!" just to be funny. well, this caused a panic and 11 people died. after this everyone was affraid to go on the bridge and P.T. Barnum thought this was rediculous (from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus) so he marched 6 elephants across the bridge to show it's not gunna be collasping any time soon. cool huh?

this next pictures is of army grand plaza in brooklyn. the architects that designed this, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867, also designed central park, and prospect park (brooklyn's central park). actually real fast, brooklyn was it's own city for a long time and when they decided to put all the borroughs together (staten island, manhattan, queens, brookly, bronx) there was a vote to see if brooklyn was going to be seperate or with the rest of the borroughs. it almost didn't make it! haha, cause us manhattan-ites didn't want to be associated with brooklyn cause they felt brooklyn was beneath them. haha, not much has changed in 100 years. haha.

um this was what you see when you go over the manhattan bridge to brooklyn. its really pretty. that's all i got.

this is just a really cool warehouse that i love. i find it neat that they closed all the window off, but i love the way it looks!

this is the brooklyn museum. brooklyn's answer to the manhattan's metropolitan museum of art. cause they had to have a great and spacious building too! i'm gunna hit this up at some point. it looks amazing.