Vacationing in Brooklyn – crazy?

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    ZosHaTorah
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    My wife has been begging for a vacation to Brooklyn for a really long time. We live not near NYC, and she wants a few days to shop and eat in Brooklyn. She’s not interested in the Empire State Building, or Ellis Island, or the night life. She just wants to be able to buy frum clothing and have hundreds of kosher restaurants to chose from.

    So I’m surprising her on Sunday with plane tickets for us to leave that morning for 4 days in Brooklyn. If I told anybody at work I was taking a vacation to go to Brooklyn, they would surely think I was nuts.

    What do you think?

    #765470
    dunno
    Member

    Take a walk along the Belt. It’s beautiful at this time of year

    #765471
    am yisrael chai
    Participant

    A man who makes his wife happy is a happy man

    #765472
    mewho
    Participant

    why not? there are plenty place to go and things to do.

    enjoy

    #765473
    deiyezooger
    Member

    For any wife vacation means shoping….

    #765474

    I think its a great place to vacation. I live here and besides for the noise which might be a little annoying, I think it is a very convenient place to be for shopping and eating out.

    Have Fun!!!!

    #765475
    Pac-Man
    Member

    Who doesn’t love Brooklyn?? Whydya think so many of us choose to live here? No ones forcing us, we love it!

    #765476
    HIE
    Participant

    how far from brookln do u live

    #765477
    smartcookie
    Member

    You’re not nuts at all. You can have a very enjoyable vacation. But I hope you have a full plan exactly where and when to go.

    #765478
    mewho
    Participant

    i would like to suggest dinner at cafe venezia on coney island ave between ave J and K. whatever you eat as a main will be yummy but make sure to have the belgian waffles with ice cream for dessert!!!!!

    #765479
    ZosHaTorah
    Participant

    We live in the middle of the US, and our city has about 6 kosher restaurants, so the food in NY is a BIG draw. Yes, any suggestions are welcome. I think what we’d really like to find would be an Asian style (Thai, Japanese, etc) restaurant.

    Luckily, we have a great free place to stay. My wife’s aunt/uncle live in Manhattan for half the year and Florida the other half. They’re still in Florida, so we get the use of their apartment for free.

    A rav once told us we should take 3 vacations a year:

    1. One as a couple (check)

    2. Another with the kids (it’s been a while – we’re due)

    3. And for the third… separate vacations (sounds doable)

    #765480
    HIE
    Participant

    ya brooklyn is loaded with great restaurants. try schnitzi schnitzel bar on coney island avenue in flatbush gread shnitzel sandwiches, also carlos and gabis a couple blocks from there has great japanese food. u only have 6 kosher restaurants??? wow i wouldn’t survive there!!!

    #765481
    Pac-Man
    Member

    “A rav once told us we should take 3 vacations a year:”

    I’d like to change rav’s, who is this rav!? Does he only cater to the ultra-wealthy??

    #765482

    Great idea! I love the city. Make sure to check out the Jewish Press dining guide. U could also google kosher restaurants wherever u want to go, and u’ll get listings. Just make sure the hechsher is fine. There’s a place called Tiberias which is I believe 24 hours. It’s in the city..down 34th street and is dairy. I like that restaurant. There’s tonz of shopping in the city if that’s where u want to shop…Everything (basically) can be looked up online…

    Enjoy!

    #765483
    yaakov doe
    Participant

    Enjoy your visit to Brooklyn!

    #765484
    commonsense
    Participant

    if you want a cheap place to eat with good food, try shnitzi’s they are in Bp and in flatbush.

    #765485
    walton157
    Member

    @ZosHaTorah: If anyone asks, just tell them that you and your wife are vacationing in that wonderful land just over the East River.

    I once heard a man say: Happy Wife. Happy Life.

    Also, thank you for shopping Brooklyn. Please come again. 🙂

    #765486
    Sender Av
    Member

    I would love a trip to Brooklyn. I did it last year , as well as Lawrance, Monsey, Lakewood, Baltimore, all the spots and did a lot of shopping(food mostly). I love grocery stores..dont forget to go to Pomegranate.

    #765487
    am yisrael chai
    Participant

    There’s a sign on the highway:

    Leaving Brooklyn? FUHGEDABOUTIT!

    (not sure of the exact spelling)

    no kidding

    #765488
    Health
    Participant

    Next time, send me the plane tickets and I’ll do your shopping for you and ship it to you. I’ll have one ticket left over for My vacation.

    #765489
    commonsense
    Participant

    We live in Brooklyn and last year we took a vacation to Lakewood. It was a great trip! it was wonderful having an easy time finding food to eat and no problem with finding minyanim. it was probably one of the nicest trips we’ve taken. so coming to brooklyn doesn’t sound silly if you don’t live here, enjoy!!

    #765490

    The easiest places to vacation to are ones where there are a lot of minyanim so that you don’t have to make yourself crazy to be back on time for that one minyan in the one shul in some small hicktown.

    #765491
    deiyezooger
    Member

    Brooklyn is like the zoo, its beutiful to visit as long you can go home after the visit is over and you are not caged in.

    #765492
    HIE
    Participant

    ya in brooklyn youll find minyanim for maariv till atleast 3AM and minyaim for shacharis till 12:30PM

    #765493
    cofeefan
    Member

    “Brooklyn is like the zoo, its beutiful to visit as long you can go home after the visit is over and you are not caged in.”

    lol SO TRUE;)

    #765494
    deiyezooger
    Member

    Take it from me, a former resident who charged the gates and excaped.

    #765495

    1)Yeah, and remember that there’s Landau’s and Shomer Shabbos for minyanim at crazy hours!

    2) Steer clear of terrorists! (YIKES)

    3) Enjoy ur trip, and after it’s over let us know how it went, and where u went…..!

    #765496
    deiyezooger
    Member

    “ya in brooklyn youll find minyanim for maariv till atleast 3AM and minyaim for shacharis till 12:30PM”

    I was onced visiting my Grandparents in BP and on the way home my then 8 year old decided he needs the bathroom, So I stoped at (-) {one of the major minyen factories} and it was already after 3pm with a shul full of people in talis & tefilin, so my son asked me “Tati, do they have the minhag in (-) to daven minchah in a talis?”…….

    #765497
    fedup11210
    Member

    HIE just for the record carlos & gabbys is mexican not japanese, if you want japanese go to moshi moshi also on coney like ave p

    #765498
    deiyezooger
    Member

    “There’s a sign on the highway:

    Leaving Brooklyn? FUHGEDABOUTIT!

    (not sure of the exact spelling)

    no kidding “

    When going onto the Williamsburg Bridge there is a sign;

    “leaving Brooklyn? oy vei”

    no kidding

    #765499
    HIE
    Participant

    fedup11210, btw its funny we live in the same zipcode but anyway i realized that mistake after seeing their ad in one of the local newspapers, thanks for correcting

    #765502
    Getzel
    Participant

    go 4 it

    #765503
    HIE
    Participant

    it’s funny. I spoke to many people who live in Brooklyn about living here. Each one has a very strong opinion about it. Either they’re very against it, or very pro it. There’s no one that says “it’s not bad”, or, “It’s Okay”!!

    #765504
    WolfishMusings
    Participant

    There’s no one that says “it’s not bad”, or, “It’s Okay”!!

    It’s okay. I neither love nor hate Brooklyn. There are certainly better places to live, but there are also worse.

    The Wolf

    #765505
    bpt
    Participant

    HIE is right about Schnitzi.. its a MUST for all visitors. Also be sure to daven in Bobov 15th / 48th at least one shachris (Shabbos is 10x as good, if you can swing it).

    On the outside, Prospect Park / Bklyn Botanical Garden is also very nice. If you’re able to, Bike-n-Roll rental on the West Side Hwy. Flat and really pleasant this week

    #765506
    HIE
    Participant

    wolf, you’re the first congratulations!

    #765507
    adorable
    Participant

    I love BP but live too close to actually go there for vacation. enjoy it! I love that you can just walk outside at any time of the day or night and get something to eat/drink or someone to talk to…

    #765508
    nfgo3
    Member

    For lunch or dinner (milchik), go to Basil, on Kingston Ave., one block north of Eastern Parkway. Eastern Parkway itself is a remarkable site, designed by the same guy who did Central Park. And Basil is a block from Lubavitch world headquarters.

    #765509
    Health
    Participant

    North of Eastern Parkway is Bed-Sty. Does the restaurant provide armed guards?

    #765510
    ZosHaTorah
    Participant

    I’m having so much fun reading all of your suggestions. I’m having even more fun taking you up on some of them. BP is surely a sight to see, for a frum Jew not from a town with so many Chassids. I live inside an eruv and I’m surrounded by Jews on Shabbos when they are all afoot, but I wasn’t prepared for what I saw yesterday in BP. Everybody dressed in their Shabbos finest for a regular old Monday afternoon. Beautiful to see Torah Jewry thriving the way it is in Brooklyn. A Beis Medrash on nearly every corner. Rav Aron Cutler would be proud if he could see…

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