Closing Bell: Give Your Regards to Downtown

Next month a TKTS Discount Ticket Booth will open at 1 Metrotech, according to Broadway World. The Theatre Development Fund booth will offer same-day evening and next-day matinee tickets for shows in Brooklyn and Manhattan (Broadway and Off-Broadway) at discounts of up to 50 percent.
New TKTS Booth To Open In Downtown Brooklyn [Broadway World] GMAP

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wow, REALLY great news!!!

Brooklyn continues to be on fire!

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 4:13 PM

aha, now that mobile shake shack truck parking at metrotech is starting to make some sense. get people on line to buy burgers while they are on line buying tickets. genius.

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 4:28 PM

wait,

it's not open on sat or sun?

what about the TURISTAs?

what of their rights?

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 4:30 PM

anybody remember when they used to have a booth near borough hall?

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 4:35 PM

Wow wow wow great

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 4:36 PM

yay!

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 5:06 PM

No, 4:35, I don't when was that? And 4:30, the booth at the South Street Seaport isn't open on the weekends either.

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 5:07 PM

I'm not really thrilled about this. TKTS is a menace. Soon downtown Bklyn will be swamped with tourists looking for shorter line, clogging the sidewalks and meandering into people. Putting my hand in a garbage disposal would be less torture!

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 5:29 PM

When Fulton Mall opened way back in the early eighties there was a TKTS Booth in front of the New York Bank for Savings ans Albee Square Mall. It was a big bust and didn't last long. Maybe Brooklynites have now become theatergoers and it will last this time around.

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 5:32 PM

yeah, 5:29, more tax dollars to downtown brooklyn, which has been all but a ghetto for the last 30 years sounds like TERRIBLE NEWS!

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 5:44 PM

"Brooklyn is now recognized as one of the cultural jewels of New York City," said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.

By selling tickets for shows in - drumroll please - MANHATTAN!

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 5:52 PM

With the hotels under construction within walking distance of this location and all the college kids (Poly/NYU, City Tech, St. Francis, Brooklyn Law, LIU) it may be able to survive. The Marriott is booming, the NU Hotel at the corner of Smith and Atlantic is getting close to being done and the new hotel on Duffield can't be more than 6 - 8 months away.

It's a shame that they won't have Saturday hours but MetroTech is still a bit of a ghost town after 5 on Fridays.

Posted by: guest at June 18, 2008 6:07 PM

5:29 (and anyone else who's worried):

The only TKTS outlet with crazy lines of tourists is the one in Times Square. I've visited the outpost at South Street Seaport many times and rarely find the line longer than 20 (mostly local) folks.

So, yay!

Posted by: curiositykilledthecat at June 18, 2008 10:15 PM

this is a great move

Posted by: BrooklynLove at June 19, 2008 6:18 AM

5:32, that's right! Now that you write where, I can picture it. I sometimes hop over to the Seaport for tickets, which as 'curiosity' notes, has few customers. I will be checking out the new booth regularly.

Posted by: guest at June 19, 2008 9:32 AM

for complete info on locations and hours go here:

http://www.tdf.org/TDF_ServicePage.aspx?id=56

Posted by: guest at June 19, 2008 9:39 AM

seaport can attract a crowd on weekends. just show up early and you'll be fine.

Posted by: guest at June 19, 2008 9:40 AM

TKTS will be worthless once AY is built...

Posted by: guest at June 19, 2008 11:56 AM