Guidebook for Brooklyn

Mercedes
Guidebook for Brooklyn

Food Scene

This is a Colombian bakery a few blocks away from home :) They serve the best cafe con leche (coffee with hot frosty milk) you can have, and the best hot Colombian chocolate! They have pastries and different breads, sweets, and not sweet! Really a nice small place for breakfast... then there are other places in the area: Mexican food, Dominican food, pizzerias, etc... , Asian restaurants, Buffet style restaurant by Jamaica Avenue and 86th Street or 87th Street... etc... Go explore ! :)
Pan Ugo Bakery
8442 Jamaica Ave
This is a Colombian bakery a few blocks away from home :) They serve the best cafe con leche (coffee with hot frosty milk) you can have, and the best hot Colombian chocolate! They have pastries and different breads, sweets, and not sweet! Really a nice small place for breakfast... then there are other places in the area: Mexican food, Dominican food, pizzerias, etc... , Asian restaurants, Buffet style restaurant by Jamaica Avenue and 86th Street or 87th Street... etc... Go explore ! :)
Small Dominican restaurant, serves good food, soups, beers, and they have live music (can't remember what days...probably Friday nights and weekends)! I love their food, soups, and fruit shakes! Delicious and not expensive! Of course, I'm from the Caribbean, so I love the food :)
El Rinconcito de Nagua
7620 Jamaica Ave
Small Dominican restaurant, serves good food, soups, beers, and they have live music (can't remember what days...probably Friday nights and weekends)! I love their food, soups, and fruit shakes! Delicious and not expensive! Of course, I'm from the Caribbean, so I love the food :)

Sightseeing

The Ferry is free and it operates until maybe 10:00pm (check the schedule) It leaves from the south point of Manhattan to Staten Island every half hour and it returns to Manhattan... The view of Manhattan is very nice on sunny days or night time -- It's free :) Don't let anybody take your money (some not nice people have done that to the tourists!)--So you should just get on it and take your camera with you! They serve snacks and drinks on the ferry :) I hope you can enjoy it :)
21 locals recommend
Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal Greenmarket
4 South St
21 locals recommend
The Ferry is free and it operates until maybe 10:00pm (check the schedule) It leaves from the south point of Manhattan to Staten Island every half hour and it returns to Manhattan... The view of Manhattan is very nice on sunny days or night time -- It's free :) Don't let anybody take your money (some not nice people have done that to the tourists!)--So you should just get on it and take your camera with you! They serve snacks and drinks on the ferry :) I hope you can enjoy it :)
It's just beautiful! Magnificent! Historical :) I love it and enjoy walking and seeing the views from it! I have walked it a few times, from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and vice versa :) I hope you do too and take beautiful pictures for memories and to re-live the experience! Bring your lock to put on the bridge for the one you love :) -- this may be illegal, so please find out first--don't want you or anyone to get in trouble for a love lock on the bridge! :) Just make sure, please :)
77 locals recommend
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Bridge Boulevard
77 locals recommend
It's just beautiful! Magnificent! Historical :) I love it and enjoy walking and seeing the views from it! I have walked it a few times, from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and vice versa :) I hope you do too and take beautiful pictures for memories and to re-live the experience! Bring your lock to put on the bridge for the one you love :) -- this may be illegal, so please find out first--don't want you or anyone to get in trouble for a love lock on the bridge! :) Just make sure, please :)

Arts & Culture

It's just very beautiful! I love it...I can go there many days and still be amazed! I am in love with history.... this is a very beautiful museum and there's a gift shop store on one of the floors which has gifts for everyone and not expensive :) I hope you can go visit it too :)
1623 locals recommend
American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
1623 locals recommend
It's just very beautiful! I love it...I can go there many days and still be amazed! I am in love with history.... this is a very beautiful museum and there's a gift shop store on one of the floors which has gifts for everyone and not expensive :) I hope you can go visit it too :)
If you love art, you must go to this museum! It's beautiful! It's a great experience! I love it and think it's a gift to our life and to the human race, to have this museum! I do hope you can go visit it!
2653 locals recommend
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
2653 locals recommend
If you love art, you must go to this museum! It's beautiful! It's a great experience! I love it and think it's a gift to our life and to the human race, to have this museum! I do hope you can go visit it!
It's just majestic! Beautiful, I can't describe it! If you go, try to get on a tour of the library, which they offer during the day. The reading rooms are just amazingly beautiful :) I can gaze at the ceiling art and decor the entire day and not get enough of the beauty that was created in this gorgeous library! Just go in and look at "The Rose Main Reading Room" and you'll be transported to a beautiful era! :) I do absolutely love this library and have been to it a few times and enjoyed reading a book sitting at one of the tables! One of the books from the "Poldark" series.... "Bella Poldark"! :) I love it!
160 locals recommend
New York Public Library - Bloomingdale Library
476 5th Ave
160 locals recommend
It's just majestic! Beautiful, I can't describe it! If you go, try to get on a tour of the library, which they offer during the day. The reading rooms are just amazingly beautiful :) I can gaze at the ceiling art and decor the entire day and not get enough of the beauty that was created in this gorgeous library! Just go in and look at "The Rose Main Reading Room" and you'll be transported to a beautiful era! :) I do absolutely love this library and have been to it a few times and enjoyed reading a book sitting at one of the tables! One of the books from the "Poldark" series.... "Bella Poldark"! :) I love it!

Shopping

It's just a very beautiful store! There's something for everyone at Macys (low budget and high too)! I love it! I buy there many times, most of the times really :) The store holidays' decoration and windows' displays are amazing and just unique in beauty and details! I love Macys and wish that stays with us for hundreds and hundreds of years! It's an iconic place, historical, it conserves some of the old time charms in some areas of the store (the wooden escalators, for example, which I adore!) On two or three of the floors, they have food and a place to sit and eat!! I buy many of my clothes in the "juniors department", of course, even though I'm not a teenager, as you know! :)
22 locals recommend
Macys Herald Square Café
151 W 34th St
22 locals recommend
It's just a very beautiful store! There's something for everyone at Macys (low budget and high too)! I love it! I buy there many times, most of the times really :) The store holidays' decoration and windows' displays are amazing and just unique in beauty and details! I love Macys and wish that stays with us for hundreds and hundreds of years! It's an iconic place, historical, it conserves some of the old time charms in some areas of the store (the wooden escalators, for example, which I adore!) On two or three of the floors, they have food and a place to sit and eat!! I buy many of my clothes in the "juniors department", of course, even though I'm not a teenager, as you know! :)
H & M is a nice store with nice things! And it's very inexpensive too! They are everywhere in Manhattan! This one on Fifth Avenue is nice and pretty... the one on Lexington Avenue near 59th Street is very nice too.... very good prices!
52 locals recommend
H&M
497-501 Fulton St
52 locals recommend
H & M is a nice store with nice things! And it's very inexpensive too! They are everywhere in Manhattan! This one on Fifth Avenue is nice and pretty... the one on Lexington Avenue near 59th Street is very nice too.... very good prices!
Century 21 store, near the Freedom Tower (near the Financial District famous Bull on Broadway), is a very good store! Very good merchandise, brand names, European, and very good prices! I used to shop at this store all the time....I worked a block away from it during the early 2000s! I like it very much!
260 locals recommend
Century21 Stores
32 Church St
260 locals recommend
Century 21 store, near the Freedom Tower (near the Financial District famous Bull on Broadway), is a very good store! Very good merchandise, brand names, European, and very good prices! I used to shop at this store all the time....I worked a block away from it during the early 2000s! I like it very much!

Essentials

I buy here all the time! Prices are good...even though, I shop at other supermarkets in the area, wherever they have the specials going on! The other supermarket is two blocks away from this one, by 78th or 79th St., it's called: "Compare" or any other of the small shops in the area! We have a lot of them! :)
25 locals recommend
CTown Supermarkets
169-15 Hillside Avenue
25 locals recommend
I buy here all the time! Prices are good...even though, I shop at other supermarkets in the area, wherever they have the specials going on! The other supermarket is two blocks away from this one, by 78th or 79th St., it's called: "Compare" or any other of the small shops in the area! We have a lot of them! :)
This is a laundy -- the name is : " S&M Quality Laundromat" I don't know why it appears with a different name on Google here! This laundry is right in front of the supermarket, CTown! It's very close to our house...two blocks away! You can even pay for the lady to do it for you...they charge by the pound! My neighbor, who's a single man, does it all the time and he says it's inexpensive.... you leave it and pick it up later... just inform the lady if there's anything she shouldn't do to your clothes... or if you are allergic to something, or a special garment.... anyways, there are many dry cleaners too on Jamaica Avenue !
B K Tex Ltd
7436 Jamaica Avenue
This is a laundy -- the name is : " S&M Quality Laundromat" I don't know why it appears with a different name on Google here! This laundry is right in front of the supermarket, CTown! It's very close to our house...two blocks away! You can even pay for the lady to do it for you...they charge by the pound! My neighbor, who's a single man, does it all the time and he says it's inexpensive.... you leave it and pick it up later... just inform the lady if there's anything she shouldn't do to your clothes... or if you are allergic to something, or a special garment.... anyways, there are many dry cleaners too on Jamaica Avenue !