New Yorkers have always said to my partner and I, "You two would really like Brooklyn!" Having never been, I had no idea what they were talking about. That was until yesterday, when I ventured off with a small group to
McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn for the Armin Van
Buuren concert. For those of you who don't know, Armin Van
Buuren is a trance DJ from the Netherlands who was just named the number one DJ in the world!
http://stage.arminvanbuuren.com/ I'm not a huge trance fan, but I jumped at the opportunity to go to Brooklyn and experience the number one DJ in the world. Let me start by saying the venue,
McCarren Park Pool, was the most unusual place that I have ever been for a concert. It's literally an enormous, Olympic-size, swimming pool drained with a stage constructed above it. The dance floor was in the swimming pool! I kept imaging a 1976 4
th of July weekend there with families floating and swimming about.
http://www.mccarrenpark.com/ After drinking a few of Brooklyn Breweries finest, Armin took the stage, and the crowd was energized! Everyone facing the stage with hands in the air, jumping to the bass. It was electrifying for the first 3.5 hours...then gravity and age set in. I'm not as young as I once was, that's for sure! Fortunately, my friends felt the same, so we made our way to a more accommodating environment...A colorful place where the music plays quietly on the jukebox, the drinks are more reasonably priced and everyone
gayly sits around and shares a laugh.
We wandered through the
Williamsburg neighborhood searching for the infamous Metropolitan bar. This was when I realized the reason locals insisted that we would love Brooklyn. It reminded me of a hybrid between the Mission and Lower
Haight neighborhoods of San Francisco. The people in the streets were a
hodge podge of young hipsters, artists and die hard locals all converging around authentic, family owned restaurants, dive bars and eclectic, random boutiques and bodegas. Brooklyn was more of our kind of place for sure and I would definitely enjoy spending more time there, but there's no place like home! San Francisco is still number one in my book!
We wandered through the Williamsburg neighborhood searching for the infamous Metropolitan bar. This was when I realized the reason locals insisted that we would love Brooklyn. It reminded me of a hybrid between the Mission and Lower Haight neighborhoods of San Francisco. The people in the streets were a hodge podge of young hipsters, artists and die hard locals all converging around authentic, family owned restaurants, dive bars and eclectic, random boutiques and bodegas. Brooklyn was more of our kind of place for sure and I would definitely enjoy spending more time there, but there's no place like home! San Francisco is still number one in my book!
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