Brooklyn as a Tourist Destination
The headlines more or less say it all: And Maybe a Side Trip to Manhattan? and Fugheddaboud What You Think You Know About Brooklyn. That’s right, media outlets are once again pitching Brooklyn as a tourist destination and alternative to Manhattan. Two travel articles published this weekend in the Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh…
The headlines more or less say it all: And Maybe a Side Trip to Manhattan? and Fugheddaboud What You Think You Know About Brooklyn. That’s right, media outlets are once again pitching Brooklyn as a tourist destination and alternative to Manhattan. Two travel articles published this weekend in the Wall Street Journal and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review offer sample itineraries for short stays in Brooklyn. The Tribune-Review’s one-day rundown covers standard guidebook fare for a 24-hour visit (walk over Brooklyn Bridge-eat at Grimaldi’s-visit Prospect Park-go to the zoo or Botanic Gardens or Brooklyn Museum-stroll around Park Slope), while the Journal’s three-day itinerary suggests slightly more off-kilter activities, like taking a canoe trip on the Gowanus Canal and catching a show at the Lyceum. Hey, with all the hotels getting built, we’re certainly gonna need all the tourists we can get.
And Maybe a Side Trip to Manhattan? [Wall Street Journal]
Fugheddaboud What You Think You Know About B’klyn [Tribune-Review]
“The threads on this blog become more disturbing all the time.”
Why do you return?
seriously 10:33, a few troll posters, displaying either their “wit” or moronitude, and you throw up your hands and declare Brooklyn a “borough of hateful people.” time to take reality lessons and apply some skin thickener.
“I don’t know why anyone would want to vacation in a borough of hateful people like this.”
An what love-filled vacation destination do you suggest? Candyland is booked through 2011.
brooklyn is great and i catch a yellow taxi in carroll gardens all the time. By the way carroll gardens/cobble hill is the best location of all of them.
I grew up in Sheepshead Bay. THAT is Brooklyn. Aromas and cultures mixed and no one cared where you began or where you were headed. You were there and that’s all that mattered. You belonged.
I did Park Slope in the 80s and it was already well on the way to becoming utterly unaffordable and kitschy-chic.
But still.
It’s home.
The threads on this blog become more disturbing all the time. I don’t know why anyone would want to vacation in a borough of hateful people like this.
5:02 – Does poverty = diversity?
“are you suggesting people from europe come to the states to vacation in brownsville?”
LOL!
Park Slope is NOT diverse. It’s gentrified as fuck! Oh yea, and direct the rude tourists to Brownsville and maybe they will enjoy themselves.