Smorgasburg is a fancy gourmet market, created a couple of years ago in Brooklyn. While in summer it takes place at different open-air locations, it's consolidated with Brooklyn Flea (a flea market)in winter. It changes locations frequently and this year it takes place in a gorgeous old bank building (pic) on Atlantic Avenue, closeby the sports arena Barclays Center. Whereas the ground floor and the mezzanine is occupied by fleamarket vendors of all kinds, the basement consists of a food hall with multiethnical, excentric food vendors and, also, small producers, selling like syrup, chocolate or German stollen.
The place was packed with people and after an hour and a bite to eat, we left by train for Brighton Beach - the Russian neighborhood of Brooklyn (pic shows main street underneith subway) and continued on the famous boardwalk to Coney Island, the former entertainment district of town, with rides, ferris wheel and roller coasters. Now, in winter, nothing was open, of course, besides famous Nathan's Hotdogs - an institution.
Train trips in NYC are either horrible (when the trains are packed) or - like on this Sunday afternoon - sort of relaxing: Just sitting, resting the legs and watching the scenery pass by (part of the trip was above ground) and the people. We made the mistake, to throw ourselves into the fray with all the Christmas shoppers on 5th Street and in Midtown on a Sunday. Mostly it was a pushing, hustlng and bustling, not much fun. We wanted to see the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree (pic) and Trump Tower. Got in amazingly easily, just had to open the backpack, but were rather disappointed. Not much with the exception of a lot of gold, glitz and glimmer, just one little store of Ivanka Trump and a souvenir stand. Store window decorations on 5th Ave. - in contrast - were fantastic, the picture shows Gucci.
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