April 05, 2005
Brooklyn as a hip (or gentrified) tourist wonderland
 Brooklyn's Williamsburg, Dumbo and Park Slope neighborhoods are touted as tourist destinations in a USA Today story about the city's largest borough.
Among the places it favors is the Galapagos Art Space, the Brooklyn Museum and Prospect Park. For low-cost accommodations, it suggests the Greenpoint YMCA and the Awesome B&B. (Though the Awesome B&B website claims its downtown Brooklyn location is a mere 10 minutes from Times Square. Maybe they have a Star Trek-style teleporter?)
Brooklyn, once the country's capital of breweries, isn't as frothy as it once was. Yet still there's Brooklyn Brewery, which is sponsoring a contest that will award 60 people a one-day trip to Brooklyn. The winners will be shuttled to the borough via limousine (or to NYC via JetBlue) and will get a tasting at the brewery, tickets to a Brooklyn Cyclones game, and free rides and hot dogs at Coney Island. (Thanks to Nichelle Newsletter for the tip.)
And England's Globe and Mail weighs in with a profile of Park Slope architecture, with this lovely line:
As Manhattan's poor cousin, Brooklyn gets no respect, like Henny Youngman, the sad-sack comic who grew up in the borough. Sure, maybe that was Rodney Dangerfield's line, who grew up in Queens, but ah, forget about it.
April 5, 2005 08:34 AM in Out of Manhattan
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