One of my colleagues who has previously worked in New York knew of a Pizza joint in Brooklyn called Grimaldi's. It's meant to be quite famous but I've never heard of it. It turned out to be quite nice actually. Me approving of something? I know right?
Our travels there, however, was quite complicated.
It began with a subway ride from Grand Central to Wall Street. Besides the usual fruitcakes that pepper the subway - buskers, hobos, mentals, it was a pretty routine ride. My colleagues have remarked that there's always going to be a fruitcake on the subway I'm travelling on ... ME. Word.
I walked over to the W Residences and met up with the rest of the team and we walked past Ground Zero on our way to the subway . Worried that some of our party would struggle to walk there and back, a decision was made to catch the subway over to Brooklyn, eat lunch and then walk back.
Not withstanding that there are about a dozen ways we could have gotten to Brooklyn (subway or not), we had to catch the A or the C train as it would get us as close as possible to the Pizza joint.
Unfortunately, for us, the entrance to the A and C train platform was extremely elusive. It took us no less than 3 attempts before we found the right entrance to the A and C trains.
We only had one stop to travel and when we alighted the subway and walked up to the surface, we were a tad lost. Fortunately, an older gentleman observed our cluelessness and offered to provide us with some directions. Seems that the people over in Brooklyn are a lot nicer! All except this guy ...
Seems that my colleague earned the admiration of a stalker in the brief time we were over in Brooklyn ...
Grimaldi's was not bad at all. It was different to what i'm used to. Normally, you can choose your own pizza or go with something that's on the menu. This place was different in that it only offered a personalised pizza - what you wanted to put on it. You choose a red or a white base and then you got to put on any number of different toppings.
After our delightful lunch, we walked back to Manhattan over the Brooklyn bridge.
Token shot of the bridge....
And a sign to remind us where we were ....
Shoutout to our token photo terrorist who takes pleasure in photo bombing as many photos as possible ;) i tip my hat to you.
It was a fairly easy walk back and i don't think we would have had any issue walking there and back.
My afternoon ended quite well. Being the douche that i am, i did notice a sign that made me snigger ...
The sign clearly indicates that cyclists to yield to pedestrians ... though in my mind, it just reminded me of mr herbert from family guy.
if you don't understand the reference, i saw yield to pedophiles ... i earnt myself a giggle this afternoon :)
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