Willowtown, Brooklyn Heights, New York

A few years back while visiting New York we stayed in a brownstone on the corner of Jaralemon and Willow It's in a little pocket of a neighborhood called Willowtown, between Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights. Nestled in America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights, Willowtown has it's own identity. It also has a number of distinctive buildings all very old and packed wall-to-wall up and down the street. This group of houses painted in spring-like pastels always catches my eye. So awhen I was there in June I perched myself of the steps of the River Deli to see what I could record.

Just a bit further south on the Valentino Pier in Red Hook, I found some people watching the sun set behind the Statue of Liberty.

 

New York New York!

Teresa and I ventured to The Big Apple earlier in the month to see MoMA's Matisse show ( http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/969) and spent time each day walking and sketching. Sketched this sitting on a bench in Bryant Park, a little rain but not much! Have been missing our sketchcrawls, hope to get out to the next one!