Plymouth St Between Adams St and Main St

    

An uneven smattering of cobblestones and abandoned rails make up the roadway here under the Manhattan Bridge. At first glance it would seem that this road is abandoned and kept only for pedestrian access to the waterfront; but as I can attest, after being nearly run over by two cars, the street is very much in-service. It's really exciting to see an un-touched relic of times past still being traversed.

After living the majority of its life as the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, the strip of park space between the rundown factories and the river now enjoys the new title of Brooklyn Bridge Park. It's now part of a bigger project which will eventually encompass 85 acres along the waterfront. The insane number of people which flood the small grassy spaces here on the weekends is enough to terrify a simple-minded person such as myself. But you can't deny, it's a good lookin' park.

A lot of the old brick buildings down here are in the midst of redevelopment as they get transformed into either public spaces, or multi-million-dollar condominiums. It's a shame these sorts of things must live on such extreme ends of the spectrum from each other. Would it be impossible to see a middle-income housing development arise from the ruins of some old storehouse. I guess that's a dumb question.