Fotos!

Today being my day off (yay!) I laid out in the park by the river and then took some pictures.

The only thing better than laying out in the sun when it's nice out is laying out in the sun when it's nice out and you have a panoramic view of Manhattan.

Here's downtown ...

and midtown.

Here's Hoboken along the riverfront. there's a walking and bike path that connects to another pier with its own park. (The rest of the city looks more packed-in East Coast townlike, but all the commuters were coming back so I couldn't get a very good picture.)

Some of the older buildings on Washington Street still have street signs on the sides. 

Some more things you may not know about Hoboken:

• The hipsters/artists/yuppies started coming here from Manhattan in the late 80s, before which it was pretty industrial and somewhat dangerous. Around 2000 they rezoned a bunch of old industrial space and turned it into condos and artist lofts (most of the artists have since moved on to Jersey City).
• Hoboken is a little over a mile square and has about 40,000 residents — including a concentration of immediately post-college people that borders on the ridiculous.
• Frank Sinatra was from here, but disowned Hoboken after facing nasty heckling here early in his career. Even though they named a street after him (there's also a store on Washington Street called Spreading the News.)
• Some people claim baseball originated here.
• Hoboken was most likely named after a city in Belgium. There is a story saying that that city was named when a little boy dropped a sandwich in the river and shouted "Ho, boken!" ("Stop, sandwich!" in some Dutch dialect). 
• Hoboken has the occasional chicken emergency.