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New York FOR THE AGENT BOOK A DIFFERENT BOROUGH The variety of accommodations and tours in Brooklyn may surprise you hurst. Several other neighborhoods and landmarks are seen during the bus ride, and there are short walks at Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Ferry Landing and the Coney Island boardwalk. Muia shares history and lore about pizza as well as Brooklyn, and he shows clips from movies right as the tour passes the spots where they were filmed. The tour operates three days a week and costs $75; Muia (917-678-9733, tonymuia@ hotmail.com) generally discounts agent bookings by 10 percent. Gray Line (www.newyorksightsee ing.com) operates a hop-on/hop-off ride through Brooklyn Heights, Downtown, Fort Greene and the Brooklyn Museum/Botanic Garden area. Start and end point in Manhattan is South Street Seaport. There are continual departures On the Promenade, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background PHOTO BY ADRIENNE ONOFRI from 10 to 4 daily, and passengers can get out at seven stops in Brooklyn. If they stay on the bus, the trip takes about two hours. The price is $39. Like Gray Line, CitySights NY (www.citysightsny.com) tours Brooklyn by double-decker bus every day, though its trip is not hop-on/hop-off. The 90-minute ride through the Heights, Downtown, Park Slope, around Prospect Park and along Flatbush Avenue departs hourly between 10 and 3 from South Street Seaport. Fare is $37. Agents can either set up an account that gives them access to discounted rates or establish an “affiliate link” so clients can make the booking themselves via the agent’s web site. Click on Affiliates on City Sights’ homepage for more information. The four aforementioned operators charge about $10 less for children 12 and under. Levys’ Unique New York (www. levysuniqueny.com), a company run Getting around: Drivers can encounter traffic and parking difficulties in Brooklyn just like Manhattan, not to mention the same high NYC car rental prices. Whether they’re traveling within Brooklyn or between Brooklyn and Manhattan, clients should be able to get anywhere they need to on the subway. Brooklyn also has a lot of public buses—these trips take longer, but it’s a way to see neighborhoods in between the ones you’re visiting. Get bus and subway information at www.mta.info. Tour operators: For a comprehensive survey of Brooklyn, New York Visions/ Harlem Spirituals (www.harlem spirituals.com) runs a five-hour motorcoach tour every Tuesday, departing from Manhattan’s Times Square at 9 a.m. The route takes in brownstone neighborhoods, the Prospect Park/ Brooklyn Museum area, Sheepshead Bay and the ethnic nabes of Brighton Beach, Borough Park and Crown Heights. There are stops at the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Park Slope, Williamsburg and Coney Island. Cost is $59, and the company pays 10-15 percent commission. A highly authentic, and tasty, experience is the Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour (www.asliceofbrooklyn.com), created and led by the personable Tony Muia, a lifelong resident of the heart of Italian-American Brooklyn (his motto: “Manhattan? Fuhgettaboudit!”). The 4½-hour trip includes stops at two legendary pizzerias, Grimaldi’s and L&B Spumoni Gardens, where passengers get two slices each plus soft drinks. The tour visits Dumbo, Bay Ridge and Benson- 42 Home-BasedTravelAgent F EB RUARY 2008 http://www.newyorksightseeing.com http://www.newyorksightseeing.com http://www.citysightsny.com http://www.asliceofbrooklyn.com http://www.mta.info http://www.harlemspirituals.com http://www.harlemspirituals.com http://www.levysuniqueny.com http://www.levysuniqueny.com

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