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How to spend 48 hours in Brooklyn

• Read our guide on how to spend a weekend in New York's hippest borough
• Eat your way around Brooklyn’s favourite outdoor food market, Smorgasburg
• Ride the east Ferry River to Brooklyn Bridge and check out the Botanic Garden

By Sarah Turner For The Mail On Sunday

Published: 22:01 BST, 30 June 2018 | Updated: 08:44 BST, 2 July 2018

Hipper than Manhattan and more affordable, Brooklyn is New York’s hangout centre of excellence. 

With crafted beer, curated beards and artisanal everything, it has the best food scene in the city. 

Basing yourself at the Williamsburg Hotel is a good idea, although there’s been a crop of new good hotels recently. Brooklyn dwarfs Manhattan in size but the subway dots don’t always join up terribly well, so plan your sights carefully.

DAY ONE  

Flower power: Brooklyn Botanical Gardens (above) has 52 acres of blossoms, blooms and trees

MORNING

First, set yourself up with a good breakfast at Bakeri on Wythe Avenue. Staff wear boiler suits and there’s a Scandinavian slant to the cakes and baked goods; on a nice day, head for the garden at the back. Once full of artists, celebrities have now colonised Williamsburg. I can vouch for the fact that Jon Voight likes this cafe because we bonded over the excellence of the scrambled eggs.

Afterwards, explore Williamsburg. As you walk towards Bedford Avenue you’re close to Artists & Fleas at 70 N 7th Street, which mixes witty gifts with fashion. Or, if you’re there on Saturday, head to East River State Park for Smorgasburg, Brooklyn’s favourite food market.

It takes about 15 minutes on the L train to get to Bushwick; get off at Morgan Avenue. You’ll find yourself in the middle of New York’s best area for street art and you’ll also be able to find vintage stores galore (Beacon’s Closet is the most famous).

Above all, you’ll be able to combine it with one of New York’s best and most famous pizzas. Roberta’s lies behind a near-anonymous door at 261 Moore Street. Inside, there’s a courtyard with a bar. The wait for a table may be long, but takeaway is also available.

AFTERNOON 

Seaside fun: Take the subway from Brooklyn to Coney Island (above) 

Walk to Broadway (it’s a 15-minute stroll) and you can catch the G train to Hoyt-Schermerhorn where you’ll find the New York Transit Museum (nytransitmuseum.org). Housed in a disused subway station, and packed with old trains and signs, this feels like pure, distilled New York. Adults $10 (£7.60), children $5 (£3.80).

Then take the real subway to Coney Island, every New Yorker’s favourite seaside resort. It’s resisted the lure of hipness, especially when it comes to food; do as the locals do and have a hot dog at Nathan’s, but you may want to wait until after you’ve been on the 1927 Cyclone rollercoaster.

EVENING

You might decide to stick around if the Coney Island Cyclones baseball team are playing (brooklyncyclones.com). Tickets start at $10. But if you return to Williamsburg, head up to rooftop pool of the Williamsburg Hotel; it has a magical view of Manhattan across the East River. Then explore the nightlife. Delaware & Hudson restaurant gets rave reviews, and cool concert venues include the Knitting Factory.

DAY TWO 

MORNING

Today is all about culture. But first take the East Ferry River to Brooklyn Bridge, a single costs $2.45 (£1.85), a bargain price for the views. Wander through the brownstones of Brooklyn Heights to Teresa’s. This classic neighbourhood restaurant has home fries, muffins and sunny side eggs to set you up for the day.

Brooklyn has some of the finest American food and beer

From there, a quick subway ride on the 2 or the 3 will bring you to Brooklyn’s holy trinity of sights. Brooklyn Botanic Garden (bbg.org) has 52 acres of blossoms, blooms and trees, fashioned into orchards and ornamental gardens. Afterwards head to Yellow Magnolia Cafe which uses produce from the gardens.

AFTERNOON

Next door, Brooklyn Museum (brooklynmuseum.org) is every bit of a rival to Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum but significantly cheaper to enter. You’ll get Rodin, Goya, Monet and Egyptian antiquities for your hotentrance fee $16 (£12) for adults, free for those under 19. If you have kids with you, take a stroll through Prospect Park to the zoo (prospectparkzoo.com).

Afterwards, take the subway (the 2 or 3) to Clark Street to the heart of Dumbo (Down Under Manhattan Bridge). You can visit the past at Brooklyn Historical Society (brooklynhistory.org) – or, if it’s a Sunday, see the curated past at Brooklyn Flea in Pearl Street, with vintage clothes and food stalls.

EVENING

Saving the best for last, the Brooklyn Bowl (brooklynbowl.com/brooklyn) is across the road from your hotel. It hosts concerts, has a 16-lane bowling alley and some of the finest American food and beer. If you want to discover Brooklyn’s beating heart, you’ll find it here.

TRAVEL FACTS 

British Airways return flights from London to New York start at £399 (ba.com). Rooms at the Williamsburg Hotel (thewilliamsburghotel.com) start at £320. For more information about New York, go to nycgo.com.

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