This morning I resumed my routine of taking a brisk walk along the Promenade, down Squibb Hill, around Pier 1, and back. I was anxious to see how this part of Brooklyn Bridge Park had weathered the hurricane. On the way in, I passed this blaze of fall foliage (click on image to enlarge). More photos and text after the jump.
Looking north along the riverside esplanade toward the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.
A single, battered Rosa rugosa clings to its bush, surrounded by rose hips.
Frank Gehry’s 8 Spruce Street shows its Bernini drapery in the morning sunlight. A Machine, part of Oscar Tuazon’s “People” series of sculptures, is in the foreground.
The Brooklyn Bridge, seen through the trees.
Looking south along the Esplanade; the skeleton of the shed on Pier 2 is in the background.
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Rounding a corner of a path, I startled some sparrows. They flew up, then alighted on a fence.
These are rose hips from 
Sailing up the East River, a sloop approaches the Manhattan Bridge.
Worker on a cable of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Flowers by the pond near the pier’s northeast corner.