Brooklyn - Believe The Hype!
20 Apr 12
BROOKLYN - BELIEVE THE HYPE!
Contact Carolyn Greer, Director Tourism
for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz
718 802 3803 - Cgreer@brooklynbp.nyc.gov
Please visit us at POW WOW, Booth #230, to check out the
latest insider information about this hip and historic destination.
While we have no
problem bragging about Brooklyn - we thought we'd lead with some of the
headlines from some of recent coverage of Brooklyn! We have the insider
information about new restaurants, new festivals, new hotels (4 in 2012- and
more coming in 2013) and a new ARENA and the return of major league sports to
Brooklyn...
Brooklyn
is the NEW in New York!
Quote from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz:
"From GQ and Condé Nast Traveler and New York Magazine
to Zagat, everyone is singing the praises of Brooklyn, America's fourth largest
city (and on track to become the third!). Brooklyn is the destination of choice
for more than 15 million visitors each year from across the globe—'proud host
to everyone from everywhere' with our unique cultural attractions, hot music
and literary scene, historic, hip and diverse neighborhoods, boutique and
budget-minded hotels, amazing restaurants, great shopping and, of course,
world-class wonders like Prospect Park, Coney Island, the spectacular Brooklyn
Bridge Park and the soon-to-be-opened Barclays Center, home of the NBA's
Brooklyn Nets. I like to say that Brooklyn has it all and is where New York
City begins—but if visitors want to take a day trip to Manhattan, that's ok,
too!"
"Brooklyn Is the Coolest City on the Planet!"
GQ Magazine, Nov. 2011
Brooklyn Heights,
named one of the most beautiful neighborhoods in America:
...."From the storied Brooklyn Bridge, an American
beauty itself, sets its eastern granite foot in this neighborhood made
beautiful by brownstones and regal prewar condos on leafy streets, some named
for fruit. Generations of literati (Thomas Wolfe, Walt Whitman, Truman Capote)
have flocked to Brooklyn Heights, and more than 600 houses date to before the
Civil War—surpassing better-known areas in Philadelphia and D.C. Visitors' most
memorable snapshots of the Manhattan skyline are taken from its sunset-soaking
waterfront esplanade!"
Travel and Leisure: America's Most Beautiful Neighborhoods,
October 2011
Brooklyn's Small-Town Charms
With its mom-and-pop shops, bluegrass joints, and working
farms, this borough offers small-town charm — smack-dab in the middle of New
York City.
Country Living, October 2011
B'klyn inn vogue -
Borough hotel boom
Brooklyn is becoming a hospitality haven. The borough added seven hotels totaling 838
rooms in the past year, and another five are set to open in 2012, bringing
another 523 rooms. Among the projects in
the pipeline for next year is an all-kosher hotel in Borough Park, and one in
Sunset Park developed by a top DJ whose tunes and mixes will crank throughout
the building.
New York Post, November 2011
Scenes of Brooklyn
No other place in the world can match the creative energy,
vibrancy and diversity of New York City. This is the stuff movies are made of -
classic landmarks, skylines, neon lights and facades that set the scenes for
some of the most famous movies ever made. New York City is composed of five
boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. I would be
exploring New York City's hippest borough, Brooklyn. Home to countless
musicians, athletes and celebrities, Brooklyn continues to rise in popularity
as the "it" place to see and be seen.
Globaltrekkers.com
Dec-2011Neighborhoods
A Scene Grows in Brooklyn -Brooklyn's Literary Landmarks
All great cities have their defining tribes, whose mores and
tastes permeate the urban landscape. Los Angeles has its movie people, Paris
has its fashion designers-and New York Has always had its writers.
Condé Nast Traveler, February 2012
The Twee Party
New York Magazine on Brooklyn's Artisanal Boom, April 2012
cover story
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