Flash Mob – Die In – In A Berlin Minute (Week 50)
On April 12th at 6:30pm a German-wide flash Mob called “Die In – Fukushima Wahnt!” took place. Flashmob is an unusual and often pointless-seeming activity that is done by a group of people in a public…
Dong Xuan Center Asian Market – In A Berlin Minute (Week 66)
In Berlin’s Dong Xuan Center around 240 different shops and vendors (mostly from Vietnam) offer a fascinating mix of clothes, jewelry, toilet seats, Dollar Store wares, Asian groceries and magazines, bulletin boards, restaurants, hair and…
Alexanderplatz Time-Lapse – In A Berlin Minute (Week 153)
Alexanderplatz is the bustling center of Mitte, the central neighborhood of Berlin (and formerly part of East Berlin). During week 7 of the web series In A Berlin Minute I already focused on…
DUMBO – In A Brooklyn Minute (Week 89)
D.U.M.B.O. (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is a Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood underneath the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. When I moved to New York in the late 90s, DUMBO was still a raw and…
Olympic Village Berlin (Olympisches Dorf) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 119)
The Olympic Village Berlin in Elstal was the first brick-on-brick Olympic village and is therefore the oldest Olympic village still in existence. It was built for the 1936 Olympics. In the beginning, it was…
Reichstag – In A Berlin Minute (Week 170)
The Berlin building referred to as the Reichstag (officially: Reichtagsgebäude) today houses the Bundestag, which is the name for the German parliament. It was originally opened in 1894 when Germany was still the…
Berlin Ringbahn (Circular Railway) – In A Berlin Minute (Week 154)
The Berlin Ringbahn (circular railway) is a 37.5 km (23.3 mi) long city train (S-Bahn) line around the center of Berlin. There are two trains: S41 goes clockwise, the S42 goes counter-clockwise. For…
U8 Subway – In A Berlin Minute (Week 24)
This week brought a few bigger decisions – some still need to be made. One of the easier ones was to change the name of my weekly one-minute videos from “German New Yorker…
