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Brooklyn Hidden Gems
Saturday, March 6th, 2010

In the second part of the article discover some more unique travel experiences in Brooklyn.

If not municipally, Brooklyn is finally arriving as a travel destination in its own right. While pizza is a tasty component of Brooklyn’s history, it is by no means the only one. A stroll along downtown Atlantic Avenue will immediately reveal the cosmopolitan nature of this area where Middle Eastern food stores selling spices right from the sack stand next to Vietnamese restaurants and neo-chic hangouts like Floyd, a laidback neighbourhood bar with an indoor bocce court.

Manhattanites too cool to party on their own island effect the ultimate turnaround by constituting a reverse bridge-and-tunnel crowd looking to have a good time in Brooklyn’s many happening bars and lounges.

Before a drink, however, make your way to the Brooklyn Museum, home to the second-largest museum collection in the US (after the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in Manhattan) to see its excellent array of world-class art, including more than a few famous masterpieces. Unlike other museums with millions of objects in its custody, the Brooklyn Museum has as portion of its abundant inventory in glass storage for open viewing, effectively putting more of its collection on display than otherwise possible. Temporary exhibits are world class and have people flocking in, as does the museum’s unique First Saturday, a monthly event in which the Brooklyn Museum basically throws a party where everyone is invited.

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Filed under: travel experience — Anne Bain @ 1:02 pm

In this 2 part article you will be introduced to Brooklyn, one of the boroughs of New York city. There is always something new to discover!

Off the plane, into a taxi, limo, or finally functional Airtrain, into Manhattan and back again. Is that New York for you? If so, you’re missing out on a whole lot of fun.

New York—only people from such places as Kansas and Alabama add ‘City’—is one of the world’s most exciting cities. For many visitors, the attractions of Manhattan Island offers enough (over)stimulation to keep busy for weeks. But what about the rest of the city? What lies amidst the residential neighbourhoods of these mysterious outer boroughs, as the five sections of New York are known?

A lot more than you’d ever imagine. Lonely Planet’s New York City guide is thicker than many of its country guides, which becomes less surprising as you start reading about all there is to see and do in Gotham and realise your ten-day visit needs to be stretched to six months. Alternative: do everything in a hurry like a real Noo Yawka.

Something offbeat to start off? A Slice Of Brooklyn pizza tour makes a fine beginning. Led by the charismatic Tony Muia, the tour takes visitors around New York City’s largest borough, which many are surprised to learn would be the fourth-largest city in the US if it were its own entity (as it once was). From chic Brooklyn Heights to renascent Coney Island and many places in between, A Slice Of Brooklyn informs as it entertains—and then there’s the pizza itself as the object of veneration.

First stop is Grimaldi’s, where flat Neapolitan pizza reigns supreme. Later on the tour, thick and chewy Sicilian pizza is eaten at L&B Spumoni Gardens. A more Brooklyn Italian restaurant it could not be; not even Steven Spielberg would dare create a place so stereotypically Brooklyn, with white stone walls punctuated by mirror-backed recesses in which stand white angel statues. Never mind the decor; the pizza is excellent. Spumoni, that wonderful Italian cross between gelato and granita, is made to perfection here. The pistachio is incredible.

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