WTF?
I live on Flatbush, close to Grand Army Plaza, and there was this horrid double decker tourist mobile outside my window the other day. Aren’t we living in Brooklyn partially because we are trying to avoid sights such as these in our neighborhood? Needless to say, I was shocked and scandalized and had to sit down for a minute. Seriously.
Perhaps I should find out the schedule of this intrusion and stand armed with eggs, tomatoes, etc on my fire escape. Anybody wanna join?
Flatbush? They went to Flatbush? Anna, I will stand by your side armed with clumps of old potato salad. If Flatbush falls…we all fall.
YES! and they were there yesterday too! So, Sundays at 3pm. It’s on!
I spotted them out the window again while I was having people over for brunch. I had just taken a sip of mimosa and almost spewed it all over myself when I excitedly jumped up and started going “nnnghnnngh” and pointed at the window, opening it, swallowing mimosa, then screaming “go back to kansas!”
my friends thought i was insane.
It’s a regular loop — we saw them during the DDDB walk-a-thon. Been going on for months.
This is new and surprising to you? I’ve seen those tour buses in Prospect Heights/Crown Hights (around the museum) at least once a month for over two years.
I’ve lived in Fort Greene for three years and they’ve been there the whole time — this is nothing new…
i used to live on vanderbilt and would see those buses go by every saturday and sunday. it’s part of the brooklyn loop.
I saw my first double decker tourist bus about eight years ago when I was living in a second floor apartment in Boreum Hill on Atlantic Avenue. I can remember it like it was yesterday. It was a Saturday afternoon, I was lighting up a really fat bowl, pipe in my mouth, lighter lit; when a row of pudgy tourist-faces goes right past my window…at eye level. I was stunned. I felt like a creature in a zoo. “Look at the pot-head in his native habitat.”
get over it – you love it – bitch bitch bitch.. just because you moved to or “so cool brooklyn” does not mean you have to be tough – from behind your laptops.
please spare us your suburban terrorist acts of “egging” and the like. maybe you all should get crazy and “tp” the bus as well.
go back to the suburbs or join your pretentious tools in manhattan.
hey all, thanks for the comments. except for c’mon. i’ve lived in brooklyn for quite a while, dude/lady. even in some more gentrified/touristy areas and also close to flatbush, but i was definitely surprised to see this bus (i recently moved to the place i am now). i know it’s a busy street but in general i was surprised that the tourist bus company would be willing to deal with the traffic on the bridge and on flatbush to go to grand army plaza/the brooklyn museum. not that i don’t think that those places are worth visiting. i love them. it’s just somewhat jarring. maybe i’m just not used to living on a major road. i guess with time i will. sorry to offend anyone’s local sensibilities. i guess in the end i should applaud the tourists for taking the tour to brooklyn and not just stick to manhattan. maybe i should wave to them the next time.
I live in Brooklyn Heights -the double deckers come through, usually at night, usually heading toward the Bridge (Fulton Ferry landing?) And, also at night, there are frequent swarms of pedestrian (usually German) tourist seeing Brooklyn while holding ghuidebooks up to the lamplight. Somehow its all less obnoxious by night – they look more vulnerable and appropriately bewildered.
maybe you are a tourist…sounds like everybody else in Brooklyn has seen the tourist buses.
Sorry anna, but considering the tours have been coming through for many years makes it seem like you just got off the bus yourself.
ouch, my brooklyn “street cred” has been attacked! i’ve been exposed as the tourist i truly am — with a ny driver’s license and a brooklyn address? wtf again? why all the hating?
if you all came over to my house with some eggs and tomatoes we could do some fantastic damage, but instead you sit in front of your computer and criticize. that’s really too bad.
and also, i’m being facetious.
Red tomatoes on a red bus is just a plain silly, not facetious.
Saying, “I’m going to pee on your doorstep,” is facetious.