We went for a walk this afternoon, down to DUMBO. Ostensibly to go to the Tiger Beer Singapore Chili Crab Festival but mostly just to take an amble through the neighborhood.

First we walked down Hicks Street past the Ice Cream Cone Face thing: Lisa noticed this a couple months ago. It may have been there forever, or it may be a couple months old. We're not exactly the most observant couple. Yes, this is apparently the corner of Hicks Street and Hicks Street (it’s where Hicks Street was cut off by the BQE and becomes the Cadman Plaza exit ramp).

Then we headed down under the BQE into the Fulton-Ferry/DUMBO neighborhood.

Five Front is the neighborhood restaurant we fallen in love with. Since Tinto closed a couple of years ago we hadn't had a place we felt comfortable in. I mean, we go to Henry's End, Noodle Pudding, and practically have a direct line with Iron Chef House, but Five Front manages to have both a relaxing, hang-loose atmosphere, and excellent food. Five Front Street, Brooklyn, NY. Home of the Five Front restaurant.

We then wandered down Front Street and crossed over into the stub of Brooklyn Bridge park which is under the Manhattan Bridge. There we saw what appeared to be Tibetan prayer flags …they were indeed prayer flags of a sort, but there didn't appear to be a single theme to them. I don't know if they were there for the Hiroshima anniversary (our initial theory), the WTC (which they sort of faced ) or some other cause or event. I put together a photo set at flickr of some of the flags.

Of course Frisket had to get into the act as well:

Oh, and the Tiger Beer Singapore Chili Crab Festival? Not so interesting or fun …several hundred people crammed into a short stretch of Water Street. And ponies, which are close enough to horses to still scare the heck out of Frisket.