The 11 Best Ways To Spend Memorial Day Weekend In Brooklyn
Ride the Red Hook Ferry
Granted, it launches from Pier 11 in Manhattan, but given that it’s free (and comes with free transfers to the northbound East River Ferry once you’re done hanging out in Red Hook), this seems well worth the effort. In its inaugural year, the Red Hook Ferry is part of a Bloomberg-backed initiative to draw crowds to (again, Sandy-damaged) small businesses in Red Hook, and will run from 10am to 9pm every weekend this summer. If you still haven’t made it down there—or even if you have, but would just rather travel by boat—now’s the time.