Adams St Between Sands St and York St

   

The neighborhoods of DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights and Vinegar Hill can often be a confusing mess of streets for pedestrians. Even when following a map, you can find yourself faced with an impassable intersection thanks to the spaghetti of on- and off-ramps leading to the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge and the BQE. With all these ramps and bridges, some parts of the area can be very dark, especially when coupled with all these new high-rise buildings.

Adams Street manages to get a fair amount of natural light thanks to the dearth of buildings (save for The Watchtower which sits right here), and the fact that the bridges are still low to the ground at this point. Also helpful are all the well-groomed patches of grass which seem strangely out-of-place, but still wholly welcome.