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]
Tourists in Park Slope? Sheesh!
And, yes, I also pay more to live in PS than I did in Manhattan–but now have three times the space.
Any tourists surviving the Gowanus canoe trip should be sent on to the East New York open house tour.
12:47 here. Exactly my point 12:55, Park Slope is one of the most beautiful and most gentrified areas of Brooklyn, and therefore is not typical of how Brooklynites live. As for 12:54’s question, Park Slope is indeed “so different” from 95% of Brooklyn. Whenever we cross the Park we are amazed at how white and wealthy it is.
those who do not realize how diverse park slope is, don’t really have their eyes open.
i would say it is one of the more diverse neighborhoods in brooklyn.
no, it’s not 80% black, but that is not diverse to me.
and i get cabs quite regularly on 7th avenue or flatbush.
Carol Gardens is correct. There are plenty of cabs riding north on Clinton St every day, including weekends. There’s a cab depot/garage somewhere in Red Hook or near the Battery Tunnel, and the cabbies all drive north via Clinton towards the bridges. It’s the easiest place to hail a cab in all of CG and CH.
i don’t understand your point, 12:47?
park slope is one of the more beautiful parts of brooklyn and it is also the most historic.
are you suggesting people from europe come to the states to vacation in brownsville?
I dont know 12:47 whats so deluded about that comment. I mean sure if you are talking about a single family Brownstone across from the Park I agree not very typical; but as a urban community within NYC – what is so ‘different’ about Park Slope then the rest of residential Brooklyn – from a tourist perspective?
i get cabs all the time on 4th ave and flatbush.
also park slope to brooklyn as nyc to america makes no sense.
BAY RIDGE YO!!
First off, the articles aren’t about Brooklyn. They are about a tiny little piece of it.
Second of all, this quote about Park Slope is one of the more deluded things I’ve ever read: “This (neighborhood) really gives you more of a flavor of how people in the city, how people in Brooklyn really live.” Park Slope is how people in Brooklyn really live? I think not. Park Slope is to Brooklyn as New York City is to America.
there have been several articles in both mens and womens national fashion magazines this year about shopping in williamsburg. i wish i would have saved them. i moved here last year and really had no idea about some of the shops here. the buying is very very good. obviously several creative buyers have been able to be entrepreneurs here. lots of lines that you don’t see other places (and not just great clothes – excellent furniture and salon/bath products too).
i am hoping that williamsburg unique retail will thrive as the neighborhood grows and not get pushed out any time soon.
i am seeing lots of tourists in the area as well.