For the first time in all of my years in New York City, I find myself in possession of a car. We will have the car for just one week, so we are setting out over the next few days to explore NYC in a whole new way: subway-free. We zoomed around Brooklyn this past weekend, turning down the streets we would usually never walk through and wandering around tucked-away neighborhoods. Biet frolicked in new playgrounds and shimmied down new sidewalks. There's something so refreshing about being somewhere unfamiliar every once in awhile.
I will always be amazed at the magnitude of this city. We've discovered so many wondrous little places so far, and still have a few more day trips planned. It turns out that our second-born hates riding in cars even more than our first-born, so the trips have been a bit bumpy at times (give these kids a subway car any day!), but, let me tell you, it's certainly been nice to have a little break from carrying strollers up and down subway steps.
I've definitely already fallen head-over-heels with a neighborhood or two. I keep finding myself daydreaming about driving around Brooklyn all day and uncovering more new-to-us nooks of this great metropolis (discovering old, weird, city relics is my driving-into-the sunset). New York City, here we come..
