Thursday Morning in Williamsburg and the Lower East Side: J Train Ride from Lorimer Street over Williamsburg Bridge to Essex Street

(Video courtesy Tropic Temp.)

Saturday Evening on the Lower East Side: Pinc Louds at the Essex Street/Delancey Street Subway Station

(Video courtesy dreamsunderwater)

Early Saturday Evening on the Lower East Side: The Second Annual Maharlika and Jeepney Balut Eating Contest at the Hester Street Fair

(Video courtesy mustard00honey) Twenty-eight-year-old Queens man Wayne Algenio wolfed down 27 balut in five minutes to win the Jeepney-Maharlika Balut-Eating Contest for the second year in a row.

Sunday Morning in Brooklyn Heights: Breakfast at Brooklyn Bridge Park and a Look at the New Pop-Up Pool

e At 8 a.m. today, before it got too hot and humid, we left home, took the J train over the Williamsburg Bridge one stop to Essex, went downstairs and got an F train two stops back into Brooklyn for York Street, walked down Front Street to the Dumbo Starbucks and got a venti iced tea and a multigrain bagel, and kept walking until we got to our breakfast destination: a bench at the waterfront at Brooklyn Bridge Park. We read the Sunday Times, as we have been doing for, oh, 48 years, and at 10 a.m., we walked over to see the cool new and popular Pop-Up Pool,

which can hold sixty people, although only one or two seemed to be in the water at such an early hour.

It was so beautiful we walked all the way down to Pier 6 and walked along Atlantic Avenue until we started getting sweaty enough to want to go home. We're grateful for Sunday mornings when we don't have to work, especially when they are this pleasant.