I moved to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn 9 years ago. Hated it for the first few years. It seemed and still seems so suburban to me (we have big houses with lawns) but I grew to love Bay Ridge. I bike most the year by my favorite water view along the Hudson, the food is fantastic, it’s a safe, self-contained neighborhood, and very diverse. Even though it has all this going for it – it still never quite feels like home. To this day anyone who asks gets the full story, “I live in Brooklyn but I was born and raised in Manhattan on the LES.”

I’m always a little homesick and craving for knishes.

My favorite knish place.

These low rises will be high rises in the near future.

Katz’s pastrami sandwich.

The Chinese resturant at the corner use to be a Jewish cafeteria back in the day.

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Museum at Eldridge Street

Division Street

Sheils’s building – traces of Chinatown’s Jewish past.