This past December (I know, a lifetime ago), my family went on a trip to New York City for my 30th birthday. It was so much fun. I had always wanted to go to New York, but was kind of nervous because everything is super expensive, it's easy to get lost, bad things happen to tourists, etc. Well, it turned out, there was nothing to be nervous about at all. We mostly stayed in Manhattan, but one morning, we decided to spend a little time in Brooklyn. Here's how our day went.
Around 10am, we took a cab that dropped us off in the Fulton Ferry District. We weren't 100% sure what we wanted to do yet, so we just had our cab drop us off so that we could walk around. We ended up walking over to the corner of Washington St and Water St to get that iconic photo of the Manhattan Bridge. You know you've seen it. It's been in shows, movies, commercials, every person's Instagram. It was a beautiful spot to get pictures, but there were TONS of people there. I'm guessing that if you want to get pictures with little to no people in them, you'll have to get there super early in the morning.
After a couple minutes, we decided to walk down the street to Main Street Park. That's where we found this great little rocky beach area to take pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline. It was surprisingly peaceful so we sat and chilled there for a while.
We didn't have a lot for breakfast, so around 11am, we started our walk over to Old Fulton St. Now, the entire reason we came to Brooklyn was to get some iconic pizza! Our first instinct was to go to Grimaldi's, but after some research, we learned the owner of Juliana's was actually the original owner of Grimaldi's before selling it. So, we chose to eat at Juliana's. We did stand in line for about 20 minutes before it opened, but we were seated immediately, ordered soon after, and had our pizza within 10 minutes. O-M-G that pizza was good. We're from Illinois so my husband is a huge deep-dish fan, but I prefer that thin, foldable, delicious, wood-fired pizza. You may wait in line, but this pizza is so worth it. I'm sure people that live in New York City have other places that they prefer, but Juliana's really lived up to the hype for me.
By this time, it was after noon. We were extremely close to the pedestrian entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge so we decided to walk across it. I had read that the views were beautiful and they definitely didn't disappoint. There are a few benches along the way if you need a break or just want a place to step to the side for a picture. We stopped multiple times so our casual stroll across the bridge took about half an hour.
In all, we spent less than 3 hours in Brooklyn, but we had tons of fun while we were there and we won't hesitate to go back.
