{"id":2242,"date":"2010-02-25T23:37:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2242.html"},"modified":"2010-02-25T23:56:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T23:56:58","slug":"back-from-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2010\/02\/25\/back-from-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are back from spending a <em>wonderful<\/em> long weekend with <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\">Patrick and Teresa<\/a>.  Abi and I had been to New York before, but (apart from travelling to and from the airport) we had never been out of Manhattan.  This time we mostly hung out in Brooklyn, but on Monday we also zipped through Queens and the Bronx.  On our way back South into Manhattan along the Henry Hudson Parkway, we were both struck by features that made us think of Lyon in France.<\/p>\n<p>We ate burgers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/shakeshack.com\/\">Shake Shack<\/a> in Madison Square Park; cheesecake at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniorscheesecake.com\/\">Junior&#8217;s<\/a> on Flatbush; clam chowder at Tony&#8217;s on City Island; and yet more burgers at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldtownbar.com\/\">Old Town Bar<\/a> on East 18th St.  Patrick introduced me to <i>Negra Modelo<\/i> and <i lang=\"es\">tacos al pastor<\/i>, and we got along famously.  We visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/TorForge.aspx\">Tor<\/a> offices in the Flatiron building; watched Avatar; hung out with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deselbybowen.com\/\">Scraps and Velma<\/a> Saturday evening, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/\">Making Light<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/tor.com\">Tor.com<\/a> crowd Tuesday lunchtime.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick and Teresa: thank you ever so much for having us. We had a blast.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just uploaded a bunch of photos to flickr: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/sets\/72157623384259335\/\">Mostly Manhattan, Saturday 20 Feb 2010<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/sets\/72157623384527533\/\">Brooklyn, 21 Feb 2010<\/a>.  Here are some of my favourites:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/4387654745\/in\/set-72157623384259335\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2010\/02\/shakeshack.jpg\" title=\"Shake Shack\" alt=\"Shake Shack\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/4387756141\/in\/set-72157623384527533\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2010\/02\/homelandsecurity.jpg\" title=\"Flag and skyscraper; fence and camera #1\" alt=\"Flag and skyscraper; fence and camera #1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/4387759027\/in\/set-72157623384527533\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2010\/02\/demolition.jpg\" title=\"Demolition\" alt=\"Demolition\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/4387764241\/in\/set-72157623384527533\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2010\/02\/rainbowsplash.jpg\" title=\"Rainbow splash\" alt=\"Rainbow splash\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sunpig\/4388527736\/in\/set-72157623384527533\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2010\/02\/istillloveher.jpg\" title=\"I still love her\" alt=\"I still love her\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are back from spending a wonderful long weekend with Patrick and Teresa. Abi and I had been to New York before, but (apart from travelling to and from the airport) we had never been out of Manhattan. This time we mostly hung out in Brooklyn, but on Monday we also zipped through Queens and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2010\/02\/25\/back-from-brooklyn\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back from Brooklyn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1731,1733,1734],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brooklyn","tag-newyork","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}