The Land of Tall Bldgs (Day 2 in NYC)

Friday Start and I walked around Williamsburg (neighborhood in Brooklyn) to do a little street art hunting. We got some energy for the day at the Bliss Cafe, a small spot on Bedford Ave. Cheap and healthy vegan sandwiches are their game. The food was good (I had the BBQ tempeh) but I was quite annoyed after the same damn Alicia Keys song played for the third time in fifteen minutes... no joke.

Here are some pictures from the Williamsburg walk.

Faile:


Imminent Disaster (click on these to see the large view and check out the detail):


Know Hope:



Nohj Coley (yes, the woman's top is intricately cut out... wow):



RIME:



Zoso:


...and there's more on my flickr page... LOTS more!


Friday night was a fun night that turned into a pub crawl of sorts through the East Village dive bars:

First we met two friends at ACE... typical dive bar, except THEY HAVE SKEE-BALL (how cool is that?)! AND you can play in their skee-ball league. After a couple beers we went to 7B to wait for some more people to join the flock. 7B seems to be well liked, but I kinda thought it was a bust... choches to spare, not room to move at all. Once the others arrived we headed over to Botanica (the former location of the Knitting Factory) to meet up with another group of people. This was a great spot! Low ceilings and cleanned-up exposed brick walls made for comfy quarters, but with enough room to breathe and move about freely. An awesome DJ spinning old funk, and a laid back indy/artsy crowd. When our group began to dissipate, we went across the street for some subs to soak up a bit of the alcohol and then went to another bar (I don't remember this one so well) for a few more drinks before calling it a night.