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]
i love brooklyn too. would never go back to manhattan. it’s lost its soul really.
brooklyn is the borough of the world.
anyone who doesn’t appreciate that, doesn’t deserve to live here.
go live in birmingham, alabama for a while and see what you think.
2:37 needs to be kicked to the Curbed.
If it’s a borough of guidos, its also a borough of jews. If it’s so sad, stop eating Italian food, stop wearing our clothes, and stop visiting our country.
@2:17. No, 2:12pm has it right. It’s not as bad as Staten Island but come on, get your head out of the sand and look around. The statement is pretty much right on.
I think every poster on here would agree that you are the sad and lame one, 2:17. Now, go along and collect your welfare check and give your landlord a hard time because you’re on rent control. Oh, and don’t forget to go to your monthly nazi meetings.
I think every poster on here would agree that you are the sad and lame one, 2:12.
The borough of guidos. So sad, so true, so lame….
Your analogy makes no sense. This article was about tourists. Tourists go to the nicer areas in general. But they are still a part of the fabric of society just as much as poorer neighborhoods.
i just don’t agree with you at all 12:47/1:33.
park slope was built back in the day for wealthy-ish people from manhattan. besides for the 30 years where it fell on hard times, it’s always been a nice neighborhood, for the most part so how is that not typical of brooklyn?
brooklyn is made up of many many nice neighborhoods…some are plenty white…carroll gardens, brooklyn heights, bay ridge, brighton beach…the list goes on.
sounds to me like you have a bone to pick with park slope but your analogy doesn’t really make sense to me.