Books are Magic is a great local spot for bookworms. The staff is warm and friendly with regular events happening monthly. 

A not-for-profit community museum and civic organization located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The museum traces the history of New York City's five boroughs with its exhibitions of cultural ephemera and relics.

My first job in the city. The family and friends and raised New York Megan. Also very good coffee. And lovely neighbors.

This is the view from the Manhattan Bridge of the Fulton Ferry Park, a pretty popular destination being between the Manhattan and the Brooklyn Bridges, which still has the old waterfront tobacco warehouses. It’s changed a bit being made more of a “finished” park with a kind of beach etc, and has also been a regular spot for outdoor music shows, one for me being the memorable 7-7-7 Boadrum orchestrated by the Boredoms.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.