The Brooklyn Waterfront

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Prof. Goodlad                                                                                                             10/5/14

Culinary Tourism by Jessica Pineda, Holly Ye, Irina Kupershteyn, and David Chen-He

An ice cream shop called the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is located on Water Street and old Fulton that was opened in the early 2000’s, with the owner being Mark Thompson. Unlike the ice cream people buy from the stores, Mark’s ice creams are produced freshly and homemade. The flavors include strawberry, butter pecan, chocolate, peaches and cream, and vanilla. Holding the title of freshly made ice cream, it has a light-creamy texture that just melts into one’s mouth. Being old fashion ice cream, it has less butterfat and no eggs needed. Not only do they sell ice cream, they also bell banana splits, sundaes, and milkshakes. Although the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is not as famous as other ice cream makers, they still gather quite an amount of people, especially tourists.

Another fact about the Brooklyn Waterfront is that it holds the Brooklyn flea market called Smorgasburg. Every Sundays, people gather in an announced pier near the Brooklyn Bridge park along with the hundred plus food vendors. Thousands can have a little taste of everything they want, from freshly made cookies, to Asian style dumplings, to many homemade recipes, and hundreds of unique one of a kind foods. It’s a place to try new and exciting foods, perfect for friends and families. After living in Brooklyn for so long, this is my first time hearing about the weekly flea and it really makes me want to go and try all the possible different foods located there.

Within the Brooklyn Waterfront proximity, there are clusters of restaurants. One of many being the One Front Street restaurant which caters pretty expensive foods like a chicken sandwich which sells for $8.95 along with your choice of fries. Pub named Waterfront Ale House serves a wide section of beer and also a variety of different dishes like spicy chicken wings. Some people reviewed these restaurants as the best ones in Brooklyn, or maybe even the whole New York itself. After eating/drinking, you would have a great view of the Manhattan skyline just a few blocks away and it’s even extraordinary when you’re there at night with all the city lights on. The Brooklyn Waterfront is the place to be, especially when you’re a tourist and you step foot in Brooklyn for the first time. You might just say it’s almost equivalent to Manhattan’s Time Square.

Brooklyn Bridge Waterfront Park

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Marilyn Marte                                                                                                    Date:10-01-14

Prof. Goodlad

Brooklyn Bride Water Front Park

Ecotourism main’s purpose is to educate the tourists about the ecological conservation, and to focuses more on individual values. The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) defines ecotourism as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment and improves the well being of local people’’ basically ecotourism deals with living parts of a natural environment where flora, cultural heritage, and fauna are the main attractions in a tourist place. In addition, as the book Intro to Hospitality mention, responsible ecotourism program includes the minimization of negative impact of the environment providing positive financial benefits for conservation and for local people (Pg.364).

Knowing the importance of the ecotourism I highly recommend to all tourists to visit the Brooklyn Bridge Park because it has a little bit of everything related with ecotourism. Brooklyn Bridge Park has become one of the most favorite tourist activities in New York City. Its view across the tallest building in the city makes this place special, but the uniqueness of this park is the natural of the flora and fauna its environment provides. This park has many conservation ideas, for example, the park floor is made by granite that was reused from Roosevelt Island’s bridge. Visitors can get in the water by Kayaking on the East River which makes the tourists enjoy the natural view of the river. Another natural factor of this amazing park is its benches; they all are made from old yellow pine trees. According Green Team Brooklyn Park a corp. group of volunteer beautify the park by planting, mulching, and removing plants which provides an essential horticultural care to the park (brooklynbridgepark.org).

Brooklyn Bridge Park is huge on saving energy. This park encourages people to travel by walking, biking, taking the ferry, or taxi water throughout the park in order to save gas, energy, and decrease pollution. This park also provides a sustainable energy source there are a lot of storage tanks built underground where it holds thousands gallons of water for the purpose of conservation. This park is all surrounded by natural environment. The park also has an energy center that has solar energy panel that provides all the energy needed in the park (brooklynbrigepark.org).

All these elements provide a complete package for tourism, especially for ecotourism. Tourism is a dynamic travel where travelers enjoy especially because they are outside their regular environment. Therefore, I suggest all tourists to visit all ecotourism places because it deals with living parts of a natural environment where flora, cultural heritage, and fauna are the main attractions in a tourist place.

volunteer in Brooklyn waterfronts

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JiajieTan                                                    Prof.Karen.Goodlad

HMG1                                                       10/01/14

We always go to waterfront because we love the ocean because it offers a lot of entertainments and facilities.Brooklyn waterfront is a large brand new park which contains five piers.Everything has two sides, the environment is concerned when we’re enjoying the life. The beautiful environment can attract people to come here and the good service makes people love to come here. In fact, a few organizations are helping the visitors to explore the park. Although they have a good deed in the inside service,but that is not enough. The outside service is very important too,such as helping the visitors to park their cars. Actually, the park is close to Manhattan,so it won’t have enough parking lots for the people.This volunteer action is the one of the way that attracts people to come here..

America is a country which encourage people to use the cars and it uses to own plenty parking areas.Manhattan is one of the boroughs the New York City and it is crowed. So, the residents live here have the parking lots,but it will not be enough if the visitors come. In fact, they will not park a car for a day,so we will look for the parking lots for the visitors. I will find some friends stand on the streets these near by the Brooklyn bridge park and keep contact anytime. Actually,people come to the park is for relaxing and enjoying the view. I don’t think they want to spend a hour to park their cars, so I would like to take this responsibility to help them.

Waterfront is our favorite place that we want to go in the vocation. Sometime,we will run along with the waterfront or ride the bicycle. This kind of exercises are popular in the Brooklyn water front and I would like to bring a first aid all the time for the runners and visitors. To lead the travelers walk around is necessary because a good experience will make them come back in the feature. In a addition, I would like to lead them to the ice cream factory and the coffee factory because no one will refuse have the delicious food. As usual,cleaning is a daily job and we have the employees to do that.So my job is to convince the people do not throw the garbage. The education is more important than just pick up the trash they throw.

Volunteer is a stupid job in some people’s eyes,but in the Hospitality industries is very important. To gain the work experience early is more helpful for us. We need to face a thousands of different situations when we are working. More experience means more solutions we have,so we can handle it well. A lot of like to go to the waterfront because its wonderful environment.I would try to offer my best to volunteer others,not only for them, also myself.

Site Visit: Brooklyn Bridge Park, October 2, 2014

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Class site visit schedule

8:30– The Corners of Old Fulton and Water Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 the Brooklyn Heights location of Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory at the Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1.

8:40– Student lead discussions begin

9:40– walk through park in tourism focus teams (culinary, heritage, culture, volunteer, eco)

10:00– Meet in front of Jane’s Carousel

10:30– Brooklyn Roasting Company

10:45– Class dismissed

Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory

Pier 1 Brooklyn Bridge Park

Brooklyn Roasting Company

Jane’s Carousel

Student Groups: October 2, 2014 Place Based Learning Activity

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Areas of Tourism and Student Grouping

  1. Historic/heritage Tourism
    1. Tiffany Hickman, Ayako Hiratsuka, Yuwei Zhu, Peter Zhang, Welthy Lora
  2. Volunteer Tourism
    1. Charlie Tripoli, Irene Papanikola, Nicole Maldonado, Jason Zhang, Raymond Tan
  3. Ecotourism
    1. Jeffrey Grannum, Veronica Shalska, Dylan Dai, Victoria Kitsos, Marilyn Marte
  4. Cultural Tourism
    1. Tatianna Taylor, Kelly Mei,  Anthony Espino, Murielle Thimoleon, Jamesha Andrews
  5. Culinary Tourism
    1. Jessica Pineda, Holly Ye, Irina Kupershteyn, David Chen He

Victoria Kitsos Electronic Profile Submission

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I was always encouraged by my family to try new foods. Still to this day I am a very adventures person. I love to try new foods even if they might seem, or look weird. I was born and raised in Queens New York. I went to Long Island City High School, and there is where it all began. I was mentored and trained by two wonderful teachers, Mr. Matsis and, Ms. Molite. They saw the passion and love I had to learn about cooking, and told me about C-CAP.C-CAP is a organization that looks for young high school students who dream to become chefs or a part of the culinary industry.

I’ve done a lot of competing to get where I am today. I am a firm believer of will power, as long as you set yourself a list of goals and remind yourself that you can do this, I believe that you will. I was given many opportunities to do workshops that trained me on safety and sanitation, knife skills, basic skills, and job skills. I was also trained with people skills, such as how to handle a sticky situation. When I worked in NBC Commissary in Rockefeller center I put those skills to the test. I had to deal with a lot of people some doubted me and told me I’m in the wrong career path, after hearing that for a while I really thought I was. But I didn’t let that discourage me and I worked my way through it. Because some people like, Executive Chef. Steven Mule a NYCCT graduate thought I was going to be perfect in this industry. I told him about my goals and dreams. He put me to work at the grill station, deli, hot station, cold station, prep cook, and catering. After working here it really opened my eyes to all that I can do. Before I started working here I made a list of goals and planned on achieving as much as I could. When it was time to go back to school I sat down with Chef Mule and talked to him about the next steps in my career. Here is where I was convinced City Tech would be my new home.

For every stage in my life I make up a list of goals. Currently some of my goals are to continue to gain experience working in all types of settings in the industry. That way I can find out what exactly I want to do in the future.

Yu Fu

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Hospitality Management wasn’t my first choice as a major I would study in college. My parents wanted me to be a doctor or a lawyer but I knew early on that those occupations didn’t interest me. I wanted to grow up and do something interesting, something that’s exciting. It wasn’t until last year that I decided to give it a shot at Hospitality Management. My father is a flight attendant so I traveled to a lot of different places when I was a kid and I loved traveling, I love seeing new things and meeting new people. I stayed at so many different hotels all around the world, bad ones and good ones. So naturally, I decided to pursuit a career in this field. Maybe I can make someone’s experience better when they visit.

I went to a community college after I graduated high school, completed my associates degree in liberal arts then transferred to City Tech. I am currently still really new to this field but I am determined to learn everything there is to learn about managing a hotel. I am working in a bookstore now and I worked in a jewelry store in Times Square. I was hired at both jobs because I am bilingual in Mandarin and English. With the combined time of 5 years, I learned a great deal of providing a satisfying customer service and I strive it. I know being in either NY or LV will be more beneficial to an graduate with a Hospitality Management degree but my dream place has always been LA. I am planning to move there after graduation and my dream job is being the GM at the Disneyland Hotel. Hopefully, being in City Tech can increase my knowledge about this particular field and give me a nudge in the right direction.