Chrystie St Between Canal St and Hester St

With with grand entrance to the Manhattan Bridge behind me (along with the towering mass of buildings in the Financial District), walking north along Chrystie street into the maze of blocks that make up the Lower East Side can be a bit disorienting. The tangle of streets that make up the various ramps onto the bridge create for a bit of a pedestrian nightmare. If not for the massive arch structure acting as a visual clue to traffic, it'd be hard to tell where to go.

The right-hand side of this street is home to a big, open astroturf field which belongs to Pace High School. Also starting here is the 7-block-long Sara Roosevelt Park (Which Google Maps misspells as "Sarah"...in similar fashion to how it misspells "Grammercy"). It also seems, at least according to my map, that the school is located in this park, but that may be coincidence .

By the end of the block, much of the park space is fenced off, and is under construction. It seems that by next spring there will be some really interesting changes coming to this part of the LES.