Matt and I spent today in Brooklyn. We wanted to go to the MTA Transit Museum, because neither of us had ever been there before, so that’s what we did.

The Transit Museum is located in an old subway station in Brooklyn Heights, and it’s much bigger than either of us had expected. The main level has exhibits on the building of the subway system, the old elevated trains, the bus system, the history of public transportation in New York, and a collection of old turnstiles that still worked — including a recently obsolete subway turnstile that takes Metrocards and has a token slot as well. The bottom level — where the subway tracks are — contains two rows of old subway cars that you can walk through. The Transit Museum is a must-see for anyone intererested in the history of New York City.

After leaving the museum, we were hungry, so at my suggestion, after walking through the outdoor Fulton Mall, we had a late lunch at Junior’s, a Brooklyn institution with the best cheesecake in the world. After seating you, they give you beets, pickles, cole slaw, rolls and corn bread — oh, and menus. We each had a burger (Matt’s had muenster cheese and mushrooms) and the tastiest onion rings ever: they’re thick and bready, like hushpuppies wrapped around strips of onion. Yum.

And, then, of course, the cheesecake. I ordered chocolate swirl cheesecake, and Matt ordered chocolate mousse cheesecake. “Have you had it before?” the waitress said. “No,” Matt said. “You’re in for a treat,” she said.

A few minutes later she brought out our plates.

My plate had a substantial slice of cheesecake on it. It looked pretty yummy.

Matt’s plate had the most incredibly enormous slab of cheesecake I’d ever seen.

It was half regular cheesecake, half chocolate cheesecake, and the end was a layer of chocolate covered — covered — with chocolate chips. He and I could have split it with two or three other people. I had a few bites of it, and let me tell you — it was pretty amazing.

He was going to try to finish the whole thing, but I stopped him because I was near bursting and I just couldn’t bear to watch. (I also didn’t want my boyfriend getting a tummyache.)

Hmm… what are we gonna have for dinner?