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36hrs Brooklyn WaterFront

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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.

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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/

 

 

 

 

 

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Visiting the hotel was a truly amazing experience for me. It allowed me to get an idea of what it is that I want to do once I graduate from college. It gave me a glimpse of what the life of being in the hospitality field will look like and it seemed just a bit difficult but it’s somewhere that I want to be. Also, I would like to keep in contact with the people that I had the opportunity to meet with by reaching out and say thank you for having me and it was truly a pleasure to be there.

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Prospect Park

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 apart of it and allow tourists to visit.

Gustafson,A (2017,April 6) Retrieved from: https://turnstiletours.com/the-great-war-and-nyc-prospect-park/

Yanice Lewis

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Rennes and St.- Malo seems like a wonderful place to travel to many things for tourist to do such as visit  ‘La Dame d’ Antinoe’ which is a mummy that was dug out of Egypt as well as a few artifacts and art museums that can be visited for a good price. It also appears to be a attraction as well because it is somewhere that World War II took place. The food from the description also feels interesting and different as well. “Shredded Lamb with chickpea froth”, “thick slice of red tuna with sea salt…. and dice asparagus”, and “sweet-sour passion fruit” as a desserts just seems so amazing and these all come from three star restaurants which comes to 55 euros and that only equals to $60 in U.S money.  This is a place I would to travel to because it looks extremely gorgeous and the water looks so clear, clean, and blue. It also has so many different attractions that it’s endless and it is a very inexpensive place to go to.

Yanice Lewis

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High school graduate as of June 2019 at school for Youth Community and Development. Currently enrolled in NYC college of Technology major is Hospitality Management. Has volunteered to serve at multiple events serving to no less than 10 people. Cooking since the age of 10. Has been very passionate about it ever since. Maintained a average of 90% or above throughout senior year of high school. Achieved multiple awards in English, Science as well as being on the honor roll. Very athletic played Volleyball, basketball, and was on the track team and ran for Colgate and came in 3rd place. She’s very competitive but is a team player as well. Being the 2nd eldest of 7 kids made her one as well as having knowledge in being a leader. Also, working at Old Navy for the past 1 yr. has given her the experience of working with various types of people. Has allowed her to be open as well as put her in a position to learn how to be professional in a predicament where it seemed impossible and accomplished it.

At the age of 10 she had to learn how to make bottles, cook, bathe 3 babies all ages 1-3 at the time, be able to do her homework and maintain her grades at school. It was one of the most challenging situations that she’s been put in. She was forced to grow up at a young age with such little time. She found herself being a kid taking care of children. She had to grow up quicker than others but she’s learned that it’s something that set her apart from others. She learned so many things that helped her become the person that she is today. She was taught patience, communication, strength, the importance of life. Having younger brothers and sisters actually inspired her to do better than the generation before her. She wants to let her brothers and sisters know that they can be so much than what they come from and that it’s possible. She knew that going to high school, attending college, and then opening up her own restaurant would let them know how possible it really is and encourage them as well. Opening a restaurant has been her dream for the past 3 years now and would for it to be seafood based, After getting to a comfortable space in the first restaurant she would like to open up other restaurants in different locations. She also believes that she will be successful in life and as well her her career because of personal strengths such as resilience, independence, humbleness, being able to be open-minded, ability to be a leader, emphasize, and show tough love when it’s needed.