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It really all depends on what you like. Just remember to stay flexible, cause you may have to travel to other boroughs, Long Island, or Jersey to find exactly what you are interested in or scheduled in a way that fits you. Also learn how to get around using the train and bus lines, parking prices can be a b**tch.
There is many great italian restaurants and pizzerias in Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge area, Middle Eastern food on Atlantic Avenue, and great Caribbean food in Flatbush and Crown Heights. Almost every neighborhood in Brooklyn can offer authentic ethnic food. Thanks to Booklyn being so diverse.
Quebecers often assume everyone around the world understands or cares about our insular colonial French culture. That's what happens when nationalist governments run the educational system.
As a former Quebecer and a person of French-Canadian heritage, I can say that.
Can somone S'plan what the heck a pied-Ã -terre is ?
Im living in NYC all my life and never heard of one, it that the same as them squirting toilet bowls, bidette's bidet's (spelling) ?
Note to toujoursdan:
Emm I'd drop the French and Canadian "stuff" if you want to get along with native New Yorkers.
This stuff dont well fly here
"Assimilate"
-Joe
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Originally Posted by america_dude
pied-Ã -terre?
Quebecers often assume everyone around the world understands or cares about our insular colonial French culture.
WTF is up with you guys?
Maybe it doesn't fly in Mattituck but I understood him just fine. It's an expression I've heard used my whole life. Nothing linked to any "insular French colonial culture" about it.
I thought he was asking where he could explore in Brooklyn. There are plenty of neighborhoods that provide a lens on how the entire NYC area fits together. The yuppie and the artsy and the blue collar and so on. See as much as you can.
It's actually a loanword so part of the English dictionary. French or not, you'd have to be pretty haughty to use that word anyway.
I just don't think so. I'm a beer, ballgame, grill a steak guy and I wouldn't hestitate to use the term because it has a particular meaning. You could just say you've got an apartment in Brooklyn, but there is a nuance of a part-time crash pad that the French expression conveys.
I don't think it's haughty at all, especially when you're a native French speaker who may not be aware that certain Americans think that anything French or anything in any other language is haughty.
First of all... while there are valid reasons to resent someone for casually mentioning their pied-a-terre in Cobble Hill, I think that just using the term is not one of them.
Secondly... to the OP, it really depends what you like to do, of course. But a short list for me would definitely include simply walking around some of the more beautiful parts of the area. Start off with the Brooklyn Heights Promenade (uh oh, another French word, maybe I should just call it the "sidewalk") and walking over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan. Also check out Prospect Park and the Grand Army Plaza area. While you're over there, the Brooklyn Museum is a couple of blocks away. It's no Met but pretty cool. BAM is also supposed to have some very worthwhile stuff, though I haven't been there. Check out the bars and restaurants on Smith Street and 5th Avenue. Go to Coney Island and catch a Brooklyn Cyclones game, if you happen to miss the Expos. Wander around some of the major ethnic enclaves that still exist in Brooklyn -- Sunset Park (Mexican and Chinese), Boro Park (Orthodox Jewish), Brighton Beach (Russian), etc.
It all depends what you want to do. Brooklyn isn't as high energy and exciting as Manhattan but it's definitely a city worth exploring in its own right.
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