Downtown views: Dumbo overlooks Manhattan across the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge.
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The part of Brooklyn across from Manhattan had long been run down. Now it’s almost completely gentrified. Tourists think it’s great, local residents don’t always.
Syou can hear them from afar. Several machines howl loudly. The tourists turn around in shock, a pizza maker looks annoyed in the direction of Washington Street. He already knows where that came from. You can see her around the corner, Pamela and her friends. They sit on their motorcycles, accelerate a few more times while idling and laugh. In Germany, such noise is considered coercion. But in America, especially in New York, everything is bigger, higher, louder.
That’s why the tourists standing around here laugh too. Many have flocked to this beautiful street in Brooklyn that looks under the Manhattan Bridge across the East River to Midtown Manhattan. Usually there are dozens, sometimes hundreds at the same time, who can be pictured in front of the scenery or take a picture of themselves right away. This goes on all day, especially on Saturdays and Sundays. In the evening, the photos get even better: when the haze clears over Manhattan, the brightly lit Empire State Building can be seen in the distance under the arch of the Manhattan Bridge.