One of the delights of taking time to walk and randomly explore rather than focusing on the top ten and looking at guidebooks is that you stumble across the most unexpected things. In this case a labyrinth in a shady nature spot in the middle of a New York City harbour pier.
Pier 3 was the last of the piers along Brooklyn’s East River shoreline to be converted into a park. Together with piers 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 it provides 85 acres of sustainable parkland; known as the Brooklyn Bridge Park. Up until the early 1980s this whole area was a commercial waterfront, at times bustling with cargo, ferries and immigrants. After cargo operations ceased here in 1983 the future looked very uncertain, but fortunately some wise heads decided this was a perfect spot for a park. It was to take more than 20 years of discussion and negotiation though before the vision was even started, and nearly another decade before the first section opened at pier 1 in 2010.
The park is free and open to everyone, rather like November Squares and One Word Sunday which both have the theme of shadow today. And yes I know neither my post or title are one word, but I have followed the other rule which is to stay square with my November Shadows!
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Not what one expects when one thinks “New York”. Great find, and well captured. Here is my Sunday shadow: https://picturesimperfectblog.com/2025/11/09/i-am-being-followed/
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Thanks, and yes I am slowly discovering there is so much more to this city than what is presented in the guidebooks and on TV
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Perfect place to relax. Becky, here is my entry today. https://wanderingteresa.com/shadow-trail-in-obuchi-sasaba/
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it really was 🙂
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Opps, forgot to add my link https://sillarit.com/2025/11/09/shadows-in-abandoned-spaces/
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no worries 🙂
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Great place to visit and photographing in the labyrinth would have been fun, that image appealed to me.
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so glad you like – it kept me amused for quite a while!
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How wonderful that it was a park at was created in this space. Did you get lost in the Labyrinth? And here you have a post today shared with Debbie: we’ll all be up to that trick, I suppose: https://margaret21.com/2025/11/09/another-shadow-from-the-valley-gardens/
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No it was less maze and more a zigzagging path, so perfect for just mooching before I had to go to the airport 🙂
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Perfect.
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Nice find!
Mine today not far from home… https://mariawijk.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/shadow-4/
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thanks 🙂
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How novel!
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That’s what I thought, and I loved how they reused some of the original structure in it too
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How beautiful and amazing dear BeckyB, not only photographs, I also love your explanations/stories all about them. Thank you, Love, nia
https://photographyofnia.com/2025/11/09/square-shadow-november-09-2025/
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Glad you have enjoyed this one 🙂
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That is a fabulous find Becky. I could wander there for ages
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It’s a really lovely park, and has such great views of Manhattan. Better than being in Manhattan I say!
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I would reckon it would be. Not as many people
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exactly 😀
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Wonderful to have open spaces like this in the city, Becky. There are only so many sights you can see before you go boggle-eyed xx
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exactly 😀
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