By clothing-bag, 04/03/2023
What to do a weekend in Brooklyn - Walking for New York
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What to do on Friday in Brooklyn?... What to do a Saturday in Brooklyn?... What to do on a Sunday in Brooklyn? ... This is your post!.
Brooklyn is fashionable and rightly so, it continues to maintain that essence of Old New York and at the same time renewed, but that still has those roots that characterize Brooklyn so much.
So that you know a little more about this place I will explain and show you.Brooklyn is one of the districts (also called counties or boroughs) of the five in New York, the rest are Queens, Manhattan, Bronx and Staten Island.
Brooklyn is the perfect fusion of cultures in the same place creating unborough with great strength, character, personality and strong identity.Brooklyn before joining the state of New York was an independent city and one of the most populated in the US.To identify Abrooklyn in the past as the phrase "Home to Everyone from Everywhere" (home for any of any place) is used today.
Brooklyn is formed by different neighborhoods with their own personality, creating life and color, such as lighted streets with brownstone and reddish stone houses like those in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn Heights, Park Slo, Sunset Park, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, ... the contrasts between the most conservative and the most hipster that fuse perfectly into the Williamsburg neighborhood.Greenpoint The twin brother of Williamsburg, but maintaining calm and gentrification at bay.Bushwick with its industrial air and its art gallery at street level.Bedford Stuyvesant that is being reinvented with the arrival of new neighbors to the area for the gentrification that is in other areas of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Immigration has also played a great role in the fusion of cultures, from the beginning he was home to immigrants (who came to the US for a better future and many of them worked in the great factories that gave the East River), as many inhabitants ofManhattan who moved to Brooklyn Heights seeking tranquility and others like the orthodox Jews who moved from the appealed Lower East Side to Williamsburg.
Fusion of cultures from Italine, Latin American, African -American, to Eastern Europe, ....living all in Armonia and creating a neighborhood with a lot of personality.
New Yorker advice
Brooklyn is more than Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights, adentraos and discovering your own Brooklyn.It is also that you have a thousand plans to do, I already tell you that in Brooklyn the same thing happens in Manhattan, you do not end up or live in New York, there is always something new in addition to the authentic of the place.
There is much to do and do in Manhattan as in Brooklyn, you do not want to drown wanting to see everything and that at the end of the trip you have said:
Yeah!I've seen everything (with my tongue outside) ... but I would ask you
Have you lived it?... there the difference.
My advice would be to sign your essentials in New York on a list, divide them by areas and draw a route.Traveling is living the experience of the place not to coin all the places without knowing in the end that you have done, traveling is like life ... Live and soak up the place and when you return home you will say I have lived New York and that is the best gift of the traveler.
On a trip of 7 to 10 days you can not see "everything, but to live it" that is why New York always has to come back and the one that tells you that it can be - lies to you - hahahajaja except that you make marathons from 7 to.M until 00:00 to: m without stop and without really knowing what you have seen or done, that is not living a place.
Keep in mind that Manhattan is great and Brooklyn even more, even New York the new ones have not seen everything from their own place, so you do not feel bad.Mark your favorites and let yourself be surprised by New York, which I assure you already what will!...
Plans for all tastes
In Brooklyn you will find a lot of plans to do, here I tell you Varíasopcciones to be able to do a weekend and at the same time discover these neighborhoods of Brooklyn with so much life, which is more fashionable in New Yorkes Brooklyn.Walking for New York is how New York is really discovered.
Friday in Gowanus
It is a neighborhood with its own identity, with industrial and neighborhood air at the same time, it is also known by the channel that crosses it and for being between the two known neighborhoods such as Park Slope and Carroll Gardans.With the gentrification of other Brooklyn neighborhoods, Gowanus is becoming one of the fashion neighborhoods for many families and young people.Gowanus still maintains its hallmark with its usual premises and businesses, it is a very community neighborhood in which they always organize events, they have urban garden and it is perfect for living to visit.
You will find a lot.Some new buildings built next to the channel and part of this area have renewed it as the Gowanus Canal Sponge Park (166 2nd st Brooklyn) a dock that is bordering the channel.Walk and walk through the neighborhood discovering its essence.
How to get to Gowanus
To get to Gowanus-Brooklyn, you can come directly from Manhattan or make route through Brooklyn.
From Manhattan:
Subway
To make route through other Brooklyn neighborhoods:
Cross the Brooklyn Bridge and discover the neighborhoods of Vinegar Hill, Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights and then take the meter heading Gowanus.
In Jay St - Metrotech Station (A, C, F).You can take the "F" line and stop at the Atlantic Avenue Barclays Center Station stop and take the line "R" until Union St, in case you do not want to walk much and want to reach the center of the neighborhood.
You will find this information in the "route through Brooklyn" that is at the end of this post.
What to visit in Gowanus
This building and its lovely park are worth making a visit.The building is a reconstruction of the Vechte-Cortelyou house of 1699.It is located in Washington Park, is between the neighborhoods of Park Slope and Gowanusenbrooklyn and is just where the historic original Dutch farm was and in which the culminating commitment of the battle of Brooklynde 1776.Also commemorates the birthplace of Brooklyn's Dodgers.Esparte of the National Registry of Historic Places of New York.
This visit is interesting and will allow you to live as Brooklyn was from 1776 to 1783, in addition to being able to enjoy the interactive exhibition on the largest battle of the American war.
Be attentive to your website to see the events they usually have and exhibitions, the visit is free but you can give a donation something that is very good since you help the maintenance of the place and preserve the history of the place.Make donation even if it is symbolic from $ 2 to $ 5, let's not be rats with history.
It is the community garden of the neighborhood and in which they usually organize events at some times of the year.
It is a small spring that is surrounding the channel that crosses the neighborhood, sitting with your coffee and a book in one of its seats, only for the pleasure of disconnecting.
What to do in Gowanus
It is a neighborhood where you will find a lot of leisure to do and have a good time, especially in the cold winter days.
COFFEE SHOPS
SWEET AND DELICIOUS
To take or eat in the place in a fast plan
HAVE DINNER
Vegan and vegetarian food in gowanus
The Vspot (156 5th Avenue, Brooklyn) here you will find many vegan options.
Taheni (224 4th Avenue, Brooklyn) have some vegan and more vegetarian options.The place is in a fast plan and also has tables.
Bars and brewing
The beer factories have become very fashionable by Brooklyn and in which you can tasting the different craft beers, this is also an interesting plan also instead of going to a bar.
Annotation:
Saturday at Williamsburg and Greenpoint
Perfect day walking through Williamsburg and Greenpoint (Brooklyn) with a thousand plans to do and see.Start with a delicious brunch or breakfast with view, walk through the hipsters par excellence of Williamsburg, walking through Lee AveSMORGASBURG All this covered and with incredible views from above, ....Live a magical sunset from some rooftop odesde the parks that are on the side of the East River, enjoy live music in a small place or in a great concert.You can make the route perfectly walking and discovering these two neighborhoods that have so much to show.Walk through Brooklyn and let you soak up the magic of this place with such life.
Williamsburg
On Saturday it would be the perfect day to walk through the most active neighborhoods in Brooklyn in which you can enjoy their leisure, vintage stores and records, their rooftops, their parks with views and their diversity.Williamsburg's architecture is a fusion between industrial buildings, low and modest houses, with new buildings of a pair of plants that have been urging areas in the neighborhood and the new construction of expensive skyscrapers that have stolen part of the sky of the vera ofRiver in Williamsburg.In Williamsburg you will not find wooded streets and reddish stone houses as in Brooklyn Heights, but maybe there resides its charm.Williamsburg is the new Brooklyn, the one they will speak in the future as a neighborhood that was transformed from its history.
More information from Williamsburg
How to get to Williamsburg
To get from Manhattan to Williamsburg
Subway:
Ferry: The stop is that of North Williamsburg and you can find more information at Ferry NYC.This is one of the very advantageous ways to move through other neighborhoods of Brooklyn and in different points of Manhattan, in addition to being comfortable you will keep your mouth open with the views.
Crossing the Williasmburg Bridge: This is another way to get to Williasmburg, in winter it becomes harder for the cold but it is worth it and on the hot spring, summer and autumn days it is a delight to reach Williasmburg.It is a bridge that is not so busy by tourists and the walk becomes more authentic.Walking through New York is the essence of the place and this way of crossing from Manhattan to Brooklyn or vice versa, it is authentic, many times you will find messengers in bicycles, runners, orthodox Jews, people who live in the area and have preferred to cross throughThe Williamsburg Bridge.
To get from Brooklyn
You can do it with the Metro with the G-J-Z-M line that travels part of Brooklyn or with the ferry they do too (look at the different ferry routes since they are quite practical).
Brunch or breakfast with views
The day would start with a delicious brunch in some lovely restaurant or breakfast with views from the East River State Park.
Delicious brunch
Breakfast with views
Breakfast with views is one of my favorite plans, still cold I like to contemplate the views of Manhattan's Skyline with my hot coffee in my hands.I usually do this:
If you arrive by Metro to Williamsburg for the Bedford Avenue (Line L) Mentro stop, when you leave you will find various options to buy a breakfast to take East River State Park.
Coffee shops
I love Williamsburg's coffee shops, perfect to write and taste a good coffee while you inspire with just the vibration of the place and my playlist that puts a soundtrack around me.
What to do in Williamsburg
Route through the Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg
Williamsburg in the perfect fusion of cultural diversity and is something that fascinates me from this Brooklyn neighborhood in which you can find the most hippis style to the most conservative of the orthodox Jews.Visiting this area is important to enjoy the contrast of this neighborhood with so much history, many of the Jews living in the area are descendants of those families who changed the onset Lower East Side at the beginning of the 20th century looking for a better quality of life.Lee AV is the main avenue where all the businesses in this authentic area are, Leave upperder through the adjoining streets, you will immediately notice the cultural change and you will live in the first person lamulturality in New York.
In this post you will find a perfect route to tour the Williamsburg neighborhood from the most hipster part and the most conservative area of Orthodox Jews in Williamsburg.
Vintage purchases
In Williamsburg you will find several places specialized in vintage clothing, ne those that you can find from designers of other decades to basic clothing in good condition.It is one of the perfect options to help the environment to find that jewel of the sewing you were looking for, a way of marking its own identity out of what marked as conventional or "being fashionable».
PLAY BOWLING
Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn): In this place a bowling room with a concert hall is merged, be attentive to their website to check the concerts they have on their billboard.And if what you want is a fun afternoon throws some games with bowling with a background, some of drinking and eating.
The Gutter (200 N 14th St, Brooklyn): This is another bowling alley, but with vintage air of those authentic.In this place you will find drinks but not food, it is rather a bowling bar.The price per game and person is $ 7, per hour and lane from Monday to Thursday $ 40 and from Friday to Sunday $ 45, footwear $ 3 and $ 2 socks.
Go to the cinema in Williamsburg
Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn): It is one of those places that are still in Brooklyn, perfect to watch a movie and in which you do not know if you are also inside one of them.They also usually make films and short films with directors and artists, be attentive to their website for all events and billboard.This cinema will be pleasantly surprised, I can assure you.Being able to watch a movie with your table, your popcorn, your cocktail and little things to chop as if you were in your own cinema.By the way in Prospect Park (188 Prospect Park W) you will find another of these cinemas with a very vintage air.
Magic sunset from Williamsburg
From Domino Park you will have great views, but I like toThe sun falls creating a warm atmosphere.This whole area is full of charming places to sit and contemplate the Manhattan Skyline without hasteSome panómica photos of Manhattan Skyline.
Scandal views, good music and something to eat or drink from Lemon’s (at the Wythe Hotel) and in The Water Tower (The Williamsburg Hotel).
Enjoy urban art in Williamsburg
Walking through Williamsburg you will find great urban works of art in its streets.
LIVE MUSIC
Live music is always a plan and Williamsburg and Greenpoint are full of live music premises or concert halls.The places that I name below usually have concerts every week, access the website of each of them and check the billboard, my advice is to book in advance since there is always a lot of demand.
CONCERT HALLS
Bars with live music
PUBS
Being able to taste a good wine in a cozy, discreet, charming and good taste place in Williasmburg as it can be in:
If what you are looking for is a more scalp, I recommend these:
For beer lovers
Eat vegan and vegetarian in Williamsburg
Two Boots Williamsburg (558 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn) is a pizzeria in which pizzas are delicious and also with vegan and vegetarian options.
Terms of Endearment (135 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn) is a vegetarian restaurant, in which vegans are also welcome.
Champs Diner (197 meterole ST, Brooklyn) have a variety, either for dinner, eating or breakfast and everything is very good.
Modern Love (317 Union Ave, Brooklyn) The letter pleasantly surprises you with the wide variety of options.
Black Flamingo (168 Borinquen PL, Brooklyn) is the perfect fusion between bar, restaurant and dance room.
Abracadabra Brookyn (347 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn) is a charming cafeteria that is perfect for everyone.
GreenPoint
Greenpoint is Williamsburg's twin brother, but with a quieter air and in which gentrification to a is more controlled.This lovely neighborhood is one step by Williamsburg and the Bedford Avenue Metro stop (Line L).Greenpoint even has marked that essence of history in its streets, we can verify it in the small Polesy places with their own history, to be exact they call it the "little Poland".What fascinates me in this neighborhood is the perfect fusion, you can find an adorable old lady in a charming cafeteria reading a book and at the next table a couple of hipsters in the neighborhood and when you go out to the street is full of businessusual premises and others that are now opening for emerging artists, in which you will find local and sustainability products, in addition to enough vintage stores.
You could say that in this neighborhood the old has been merged with the new, the story with the current.
This is the famous neighborhood in which Viviahannah (Lena Dunham).
More information about Greenpoint
How to get to Greenpoint
To get from Manhattan
To get from Brooklyn
Subway's G line travels part of Brooklyn's neighborhoods, which makes it so practical to move through Brooklyn.Download the New York Subway app and check where you can take this subway if you are in neighborhoods like Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Park, Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Clinton Hill, Downtown, South Williasmburg, GreenpointUntil Lic (Long Island City).(If you stay in LIC you can easily move Brooklyn with line G and lines 7-E-M-R-N-W with Manhattan).
What to see and do in Greenpoint
Interesting purchases
Second -hand stores in Greenpoint:
Libraries in Greenpoint:
Eating in Greenpoint
Polish food
If you come to Greenpoint you have to try the Polish food that is the essence of this neighborhood.
Krolewskie Jadlo (694 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn).Testing the pierogies, are the Poles Dumplings, is paste stuffed with different types of vegetables, can be fried or boiled and filled with white cheese and potato accompanied by caramelized onion.
Karczma (136 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn).If you want to eat delicious homemade food this is your site!.In addition to having reasonable prices the food is delicious.
Frankel’s Delicatessen (631 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn).When I think about this place, he comes to mind immediate.They continue to make the recipes as did, which have passed grandmother to grandmother, but giving their personal touch too.Highly recommended!.
Peter Pan Donut & Pastry Shop (727 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn).I love donuts and I can say that here they are delicious, they are juicy and tasty with that homemade touch that characterizes them so much.In addition to finding a wide variety of donuts, they also have bars and other sweets.
To taste flavors
Eat vegan and vegetarian in Greenpoint
DULCE Y COFFEE SHOPS
PUBS
Sunday in Red Hook
This coastal neighborhood of Brooklyn can be somewhat further but it is worth visiting this neighborhood.Here you will find New York essence with deep historical roots, areas with stacked and oxidized cargo containers, cobbled streets, beautiful views and a growing artistic scene.
How to get to Red Hook
What to do in Red Hook
Coffee delicise in Red Hook
Somowhere Red Hook (185 Van Dyke St, Brooklyn) is my favorite place to taste a delicious coffee, perfect to carry and drink in Louis Valentino, Jr.Park and Pier with beautiful views.
Red Hook Eating
Vegan and vegetarian food in Red Hook
Lucky (5101 8th Ave, Brooklyn) is a vegetarian restaurant where you will find a great variety of vegetable and even vegan food.
PUBS Y MUSICA EN VIVO
Other posts relationships with Brooklyn
Route through Brooklyn
Discovering Brooklyn
What to do in Williamsburg
What to do in Greenpoint
By Paloma Martínez - Walking for New York.
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