Saturday, May 9, 2009

summer

my most favorite part of summer in midwood is sitting on ocean parkway on shabbos. for those of you who do not live in midwood, ocean parkway is a street lined with benches. its a very busy street, but its the closest one can get to sitting in a park on shabbos in urban midwood. there are a few concrete jungle parks in midwood but they are quite depressing . they are more like a place to put a few swing sets and slides . they arent real parks. a real park has grass and trees. these concrete jungles have neither. this is why i prefer the benches on ocean parkway. ocean parkway has two sides. one side has benches and a divider where on one side people can walk and the other side people can bike. on the other side ocean parkway there are benches and its a bike-free zone. only walkers are allowed. last year the walking only side was closed off so they could redo the sidewalk and some of the benches. it was a nightmare. everyone had to sit or walk on the biker friendly zone. this year it will be different. the bike-free zone is open. i know this sounds trivial, but there isnt alot i like about midwood and i was deprived of my only midwood pleasure last year. thankfully this year will be different.

7 comments:

Mikeinmidwood said...

I happen to like those ocean parkway benches too, the breeze of cars flying by, all the unfresh air they leave, and the occasional screaming russians, its all good.

NotaGeek! said...

It's beautiful this time of year with the trees and all, and no bikes...

הצעיר שלמה בן רפאל לבית שריקי ס"ט said...

It's the only semi-reasonable looking area in Brooklyn (well...this part of Brooklyn). ..it's also the only reasonable place to bike (or jog)..

Nice Jewish Guy said...

I used to run along Ocean Parkway when I grew up there. It was also a place where young singles would congregate on Shabbos...

frum single female said...

njg-
as the saying goes- the more things change the more they stay the same!
in this case its a good thing!

Dude with hat (aka BTS) said...

Ha! It used to be my most favorite part of Shabbos in the summer to get somewhere between ave J and ave M (closer to J) to look at tzniusdic dressed girls!! I used to drag my friends with me or make any trip to get through that area :)

Ookamikun said...

Used to go when we first got married...then gotten too lazy...