NYC: Brooklyn Bridge

Pausing for the view on Brooklyn Bridge 

Brooklyn Bridge is the poor man's vista of New York City.  You are completely free to walk the length of this bridge, which is about the length of some of the skyscrapers in this city.  You will share the bridge with hundreds of tourists and brave cyclists, plus the usual vendors at the wider points.  You will be hot and sweaty if you traverse in August, despite the breeze.  But you'll see the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the impressive sweep of downtown.  Plus you get to admire the fabulous architectural details of the bridge.  Spoiler alert: barriers have been erected to prevent you from climbing the cables, should you be so foolhardy.

We came to the Brooklyn Bridge circuitously, having spent the morning in Queens at the Museum of the Moving Image.  Our Frommer's guide said this museum was on overlooked gem.  It's housed in an old movie studio and now tells the history of cinema.  You can enjoy flicks from the 1890s,  (think cats boxing for 5 seconds), and see Jim Henson's puppets and Freddy Krueger's sweater, and the masks Orson Welles wore.  Fun stuff like that.