The Surreal Side of Brooklyn: A Red Hook Day Trip

Frankly one of my favorite trips.

I took the NYC Ferry there, it’s $4.50 now for a ride. The ride looks great, but the actual walk from the Red Hook ferry landing over to the trolley site was beautiful. Just lots of industrial character and quiet streets.

Saw a bunch of antique cars just parked on the street on the way to the Red Hook Trolley. 

The trolley was super cool, and I was the only one there of course since I travel early mornings. I found out about this trolley from Miles in Transit.

Back in the 90s, a guy named Bob Diamond wanted to bring a light rail system to Red Hook to fix how isolated the neighborhood is from the rest of the city. He brought in these vintage 1950s PCC streetcars from Boston, thinking they’d eventually be the start of a whole new transit loop. That didn't happen, of course.

For fun on the way back, I took the free IKEA ferry back to Manhattan. Highly recommend doing it this way if you're there on a weekend. One of the best low-cost days out in the city.

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NYC Cheapskate, what this is all about...

Years ago we were trying to find the cheapest things to do living in NYC and so I came up with an idea to create a hashtagged list of things on Workflowy. Any weekday or weekend, depending on the weather or our mood, we could find something cheap to do.

Anyway, the list grew and years later when I remembered that I had it, I decided maybe I should make a website, so here we are.

I have not been to all of these places. This is just a list. There is no guarantee of quality for any of this stuff, it's just things I found while researching and writing it all down for my own later perusal. In other words, proceed with caution.

There are highly subjective reasons for listing things. I'm trying to keep the list relatively cheap but that could mean many different things.