Amanda, our well traveled friend and ex-roommate had a couch in Brooklyn for us to sleep on, where we met Ami's oldest friend, Kim for a mad week in NYC.Kim is a nuclear-powered, graveyard shift ICU nurse, who's half cheetah, half chipmunk stamina should be researched as an inexhaustible source of energy.
Together the four of us frenetically explored Brooklyn for three days and nights.
We ventured out to the once vibrant Coney Island, we found an aging carnival on a well trodden beach. We got drenched as we walked around the rusting rides and stopped for a famous Coney Island hot dog. Traveling on a lifted part of the subway we saw the old and crowded cemetery that has serviced the area for such a long time, this was one of the few places in the city not covered in sky scrapers.
After a night out on the town, we went underground to to explore the transit museum and some of the now nonoperational subway lines. It was amazing to see the vintage of the still operational subway system; hand dug and built pre-machinery. Above ground, we came across bustling markets and hoards of amazing food. We ended up at the Brooklyn Bridge, where we were lured across by the Manhattan 
skyline.
