March 10, 2006
Brooklyn is where the hip is - Sunday Times
London's Sunday Times jumps on the "Brooklyn is hip" bandwagon, surveying all the options for tourists looking to venture to New York City's largest borough.
Relying heavily on a free Big Apple Greeter guide, the article's history covers the gamut of Brooklyn's immigration and Winston Churchill's mother to Walt Whitman and the Dodgers. And the author takes a long walk through Prospect Park, no mention is made that Gen. George Washington's first great loss of the Revolutionary War happened there at the hands of British soldiers.
And although the Sunday Times map confuses Liberty Island with Governors Island, the real hurt is delivered to the borough via its hotel recommendations: Brooklyn has few sleeping options, but is within easy reach of Manhattan’s many wonderful hotels. The stylish Soho Grand (00 1-212 965 3000, www.sohogrand.com) has doubles from £250. More modest, but spotless, is the Cosmopolitan Hotel, in TriBeCa (212 566 1900, www.cosmohotel.com); doubles from £86. Maybe the 355-rooms at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott were unavailable?
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March 10, 2006 08:13 AM in History, Hotelology, Out of Manhattan, Sightsology, Tours
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