How often do you leave the hood (aside from work)

So glad to know there's other peeps who think like this!

When I do go to Manhattan I put on hipster glasses and kind of dress nicer - no jeans. Just the half hour subway ride makes me lose interest.

I leave Brooklyn a lot less now that I work in Bedstuy and not in the FiDi. We do frequent other nabes other than the Slope, though.....had dinner on Smith St. on Friday and brunch in Bay Ridge on Sunday but, otherwise, we have to plan ahead to head into Manhattan. It must be the 30's, as another poster said....

I also find myself tiring so much more of the hassle you have to go through to do certain things in Manhattan. I can get a ridiculous overpriced drink (when I want to) at Weather Up or Clover Club by walking in. Death & Co. has an idiot up front who takes your name down and calls you back three hours later. I wanted a Shopsin's burger in the LES on Saturday.....another hours-long hassle and, really, James and Bussaco have burgers probably just as good. My patience for Manhattan's little quirks to get the supposed cool, premium stuff is getting to be less and less, especially when there's alternatives just as good around the corner.

I leave PS mostly for destinations in Manhattan (upper west side and greenwich village) and Brooklyn (billburg). But I put on my ruby slippers and find there's no place like home among the gentrific boutiques and eating/drinking establishments of PS.

I don't have the same problem at my subway stop on the weekend. They are very clear that no trains are running and that I have to take the bus instead.

Carmen wrote: "The G is running on the F but then the F is running on the A from Jay to W4th but there is no A train so the C is running on the A local only and there is no uptown service from Herald to the moon to connect take a downtown Z train somewhere around the hale-bop comet bus station. Oh and there's a manhattan bound 6 train approaching Hoyt, we have no idea how it got here but just GET ON IT!! Its going to MANHATTAN!"

So true. I still don't quite understand the MTA's explanation of that 2/5 weekend switcheroo business from last year. Eventually I came to know what was happening, but the MTA sure wasn't helping me do that.

I think that the real reason I don't leave BK much on the weekends is that I don't need to. I feel well cared for with the services offered within a half mile of my house. Most often, the reason I'm in Manhattan on a Saturday is that I have tickets to something or other. I agree with the poster about Paragon Sports, very occasionally I'll need Whole Foods (and not Blue Apron or Union Market), but that's more the exception than the norm.

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"The G is running on the F but then the F is running on the A from Jay to W4th but there is no A train so the C is running on the A local only and there is no uptown service from Herald to the moon to connect take a downtown Z train somewhere around the hale-bop comet bus station. Oh and there's a manhattan bound 6 train approaching Hoyt, we have no idea how it got here but just GET ON IT!! Its going to MANHATTAN!"

Wow...that's more than I understand. I just hear "wah wah wah wah wah wa wah" (insert Charlie Brown teacher noises here)

It's funny that almost everyone here has interpreted the original question as "how often do you go to manhattan?" Only 1 person has mentioned ever going to the Bronx, Queens, anywhere in South Brooklyn or Staten Island.

We only go to Queens if we are taking the kids to a museum there or visiting the one relative who still lives there, so, that is rare. The Bronx? Umm, maybe once a year to go to the zoo, hubby used to go to yankee games a couple of times a year.

hey! You left the hood! Good for you rr!

The Hall of Science is great for kids!