By Yanice Lewis
Published Dec. 10, 2019
New York is the home to constant lights, being known as the city that never sleeps and the place you can travel to no matter the season. There’s always something to do.
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park can be seen as a very important historical location. This park was a place during the 1600’s where immigrants would migrate to. All trade from different countries happened here. As well as were soldiers would sail out for war. Also during the time George Washington was president and had a lot of impact on what happened throughout the bridge during that time.
Photo cred; Yanice Lewis
Photo cred; Yanice Lewis
Friday
1) 11 a.m Brunch River Cafe
River cafe is a restaurant located in Brooklyn Bridge Park. This restaurant was founded in 1977, by Michael O’Keef. O’keef also owns The Water Club in Manhattan. River cafe gives off a very romantic setting, especially since the area in general has a resemblance to the streets of France (the city of love). The meals they serve such as the Bay Scallop Ceviche, has chilled on the half shell with sea beans, tomato, coriander. This restaurant has fixed prices of $72 and is a decorum formal restaurant. Men must come in a Suit-jacket when eating dinner.
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Friday
2) 3:30 p.m Barclays Center
Barclays Center is a multi-purpose arena, located in Brooklyn, New York. The arena is home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and The New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. The arena opened on September 21, 2012 and has a capacity of 19,000. The average ticket price for Brooklyn Nets games may vary at about $156.88.
Atlantic Terminal Mall
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Friday
3) 6pm shopping at Atlantic Terminal mall
Atlantic Terminal Mall is a shopping center for the public and is located in Brooklyn, New York, directly across the street from The Barclay Center. This mall contains 35 stores, 5 floors, and provides a public transportation access. You can take the Q,R,N,1,2,3, trains, etc. As an alternative, you can take buses like B41 and B52 . Atlantic Terminal Malls main attractions are Victoria’s Secret, Target, Buffalo Wild Wings, Burlington Coat Factory, Cold Stone, and many retail stores and bites to eat.
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Saturday
4) 12 p.m Ice skating
Prospect Park is a great place for tourist to visit Prospect Park is located in what’s considered “the heart” of Brooklyn. “Landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux envisioned Brooklyn’s Prospect Park as a pastoral refuge in the midst of a rapidly urbanizing city. “This park was then renovated and restored in 1987 when it went through a long period of decline. It was also very critical to restore this park in order to have somewhere strictly green, allow people from the community to be a part of it and allow tourists to visit. Prospect park has a zoo as well. The fee for adults is $9.25 per adult, for children the fee is $6.25, and for senior citizens the price may vary at about $7.25. This park also has a wonderful ice skating rink that is opened once the fall season starts. Admission for adults is $7.50 to $11 and children are the same price including a $8 skate rental. This would also be a great place for tourists to visit. You can also get here via the B41,B or Q train, and shuttle train service.
5) 4pm sweets at Jacques Torres Ice cream shop
Located 66 Water St. you’ll find an Italian based desert space. It owned by a award-winning pastry chef and the location offers cookies, hot chocolate, chocolate covered bars, brittle, and many more sweet treats offered. Prices also range from $8- $125 and higher.
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Sunday
6) 8 am Brooklyn Roasting Company
Located 25 Jay street, Brooklyn Roasting Company was opened in 2009. It was actually one of the first coffee houses that was opened in New York. This coffee house is amazing to go to not only to understand the historic background of coffee history and how coffee is roasted rather then to get you’re coffee already grounded. You can see it be roasted you can also choose the type of coffee beans that you want which comes from places such as Columbia, Rwanda, Kenya, and other countries. This company also practices fair trade as well.
7) 1 P.m Grimaldi’s Pizzeria
Last stop of the day is Located in the Brooklyn Waterfront this location one of the top known pizzeria’s in New York. It is very famous and very popular as well. It can found directly under the bridge and prices for the pizza range from $14- $18. The Pizzeria was known as the best pizza in Brooklyn. Many travelers and tourist wait in line for pizza like this.
Lodging
One Hotel is located in the “ heart “ of Brooklyn Bridge. This fine hotel attracts many people from many places such as China, Australia, Canada, France, Korea, and Japan. There are various Airbnb’s located within walking distance of The One Hotel. The prices range from $450 to $4,000 per night, depending on the suite.
Sources
https://www.tripsavvy.com/grimaldis-pizza-brooklyn-442379 (Freudenheim, E Jan.1,2019)
https://www.1hotels.com/brooklyn-bridge
https://www.nycgo.com/shopping/jacques-torres-chocolate-dumbo
https://www.brooklynroasting.com/
https://rivercafe.com/
