You’ve seen the double-decker tour buses on Flatbush Avenue.
And last night, I saw a Domino’s Pizza commercial about their new "Brooklyn-style" pizza. The ad is very New Yawk with taxi drivers and heavily accented New Yawkers.
Now this: Travel and Leisure has an article in its November issue about Brooklyn as a travel destination. I saw this excerpt on Gowanus Lounge (who found it via Dumbo NYC).
I admit the borough’s new cachet comes as some vindication. (Taste it,
212!) And, sure, I love braised squid and fancy cocktails as much as
the next yuppie arriviste. Happy they showed up. But I wonder if
curious visitors aren’t coming with misplaced expectations. If someone
told you Brooklyn is "the next Manhattan," they got it dead wrong.
Brooklyn is nothing like Manhattan. Brooklyn looks and feels and is
like no place else.The first thing you need to know about Brooklyn
is that it is huge: New York’s most populous borough, home to nearly a
third of its citizens. An independent Brooklyn would be the nation’s
fourth-largest city. Brooklyn is a vast metropolis blessed and cursed
to lie 500 yards from Manhattan.The second thing you need to
know about Brooklyn is that it is small. Big in breadth and attitude,
but intimate in the height of its buildings, the modesty of its
storefronts, the compactness of its communities. Defined by the stoop,
the bodega, the bocce or basketball court, Brooklyn has an enduring
neighborhood-ness. Come to my block next month and they’ll be decking
the stoops for Christmas; come in June, and the kids next door will be
manning a lemonade stand.
yes the tour buses have been freaking me out lately. i wonder– WHAT are they looking at??? i would suppose the architecture and destinations such as the Brooklyn Museum, Prospect Park, etc. and they seem to park outside of Junior’s so the tourists can get cheesecake, lol.