{"id":1498,"date":"2006-09-01T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T18:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/who_needs_the_hamptons_when_you_can_barbecue_in_brownsville.html"},"modified":"2006-09-01T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T18:11:15","slug":"who_needs_the_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/who_needs_the_h.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs The Hamptons When You Can Barbecue In Brownsville?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Struggling to find people who will stay in town this weekend, the Daily News is forced to traipse out to the city’s poorer census tracts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Hamptons and the Jersey Shore may seem inviting, but it’s a shorter trip to the southern shores of Brooklyn, where some said they would go to catch one last dip in the ocean.<\/p>\n

“I am going to Coney Island Beach to relax and enjoy myself,” said Mike Owens, 37, of Crown Heights<\/strong>, a courthouse maintenance worker in downtown Brooklyn. “Plus, it’s my birthday, so I am really going to have fun.”<\/p>\n

Others were craving some excitement on their mini-vacation.<\/p>\n

“I am going to a big party on Sunday,” said Kevin Chinnis, 32, a concierge from East New York<\/strong>. “On Monday, I am going to the Caribbean Day Parade.”<\/p>\n

It also was time to kick back and use the time off to bond with family and friends.<\/p>\n

“I am going to stay with the kids and take them to Astroland, maybe to a movie,” said Louis Epps, 44, of Bedford-Stuyvesant<\/strong>, who also does courthouse maintenance. “Whatever they want to do.”<\/p>\n

“I am headed to a bunch of barbecues with friends and family,” said Dane Conde, 48, a mail sorter from Brownsville<\/strong>. “We all just get together, eat, drink and catch up.”<\/p>\n

Others are just looking to lay low, relax and check out a flick.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to see ‘The Descent,'” said Shelly Edwards, 38, of East New York<\/strong>. “I hear it’s really good.”<\/em> [Emph. added to underscore the obvious]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Better headline: “Economy Lags For Many”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Struggling to find people who will stay in town this weekend, the Daily News is forced to traipse out to the city’s poorer census tracts: The Hamptons and the Jersey Shore may seem inviting, but it’s a shorter trip to the southern shores of Brooklyn, where some said they would go to catch one last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}