De Rosa in motion., originally uploaded by sashae.
Days like today reinvigorate my faith in living in the city… rolled down to Chinatown to a spot called Nam Zhou Hand Pulled Noodle for some beef noodle soup and dumplings and Chinese soap operas blaring on the tv in the background as one of the shop guys beat and pulled a roll of dough into submission to produce… noodles.
Headed over the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn, rolling past an outdoor Baptist congregation at the Farragut Houses, hands waving and gospel playing, then through Wallabout passing Satmars with their families walking down (and almost getting mowed down by a Hassidic man in a minivan near Lee St. as he drove down the wrong side of the road.)
Cruised down Flushing for a while, and then had a Spanish guy in a teal Geo Tracker lean out the window and offer me a set of rims for my bike after asking if mine were steel or aluminum…
Rolled down Morgan St through industrial East Williamsburg, passed the “chrome boobs” of the power plant near Newtown Creek, then past the awful-smelling water treatment plant near the Greenpoint bridge.
Finally back home over the Queensboro Bridge, a nice ride in beautiful weather.
