"A Slice of Brooklyn" TV Show!

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In the past I've written posts about The Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour, The Slice of Brooklyn Neighborhood Tour Part One,  Part Two, and Part Three, and The Slice of Brooklyn Christmas Lights and Cannoli Tour," and now I'm excited to announce that there will be an hour long special on the Travel Channel on Wednesday, March 7th, at 10 PM called  "Slice of Brooklyn,"  which will show the joys, trials and tribulations of running a successful family run tours in the popular New York City borough of Brooklyn.

'A Slice of Brooklyn': MyFoxNY.com

MyFoxNY.com interview the tour owner, Tony Muia, about the show, which you can see in the video above.

Here is how the Travel Channel describes the show:

"Slice of Brooklyn" is an authentic, fun and informative glimpse into the lives of native Brooklynites Tony Muia, his cousin Paula, and his friends from the old neighborhood that he appropriately calls his "consiglieri": Uncle Louie, Fat Sal and Frankie Pancakes.

What makes this oddball family so special is that they run a small but
very successful tour bus company highlighting the best foods, neighborhoods, landmarks and famous movie locations in Brooklyn, NY. 

Their wildly popular pizza tour is always booked to capacity and has
even been voted the #1 tour of Brooklyn on Tripadvisor!

But there are bigger fish swarming through the East River from Manhattan
and they're trying to gobble up his clients.  Will Tony be able to keep his business afloat with multi-million dollar tour companies looking to take over his turf? One thing for sure is that Tony is not going down without a fight."

 


A short Travel Channel promo video for the show is above.  As you can see, there is some strong language, which I imagine remains "bleeped" out, but the producers of the show wanted this type of reality grittiness.

* As full disclosure, The Slice of Brooklyn tour host,Tony Muia, is a relative of my husband.  Good luck Tony!  You and Paula are excellent tour guides and show how wonderful Brooklyn really is! We are thrilled for you and wish you much success with the show! 

Thrift Shopping in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

The north side of the Williamsburg neighborhood is known for it's young, single, and trendy "hipsters" populating this once industrial area of Brooklyn  Only a ten minute ride from Manhattan on the L subway line,  it's full of coffee shops, restaurants, art galleries, bars, and vintage markets and boutiques. Mixed in with the modest immigrant housing of the past are new high rise luxury condos and lofts. It's a fun place to walk around, window shop, and enjoy its urban energy.

Which is exactly what a friend and I were doing not long ago when we came upon this half open garage located at  567 Driggs Avenue, off North 6th Street with a view as far as our eyes could see of vintage used goods for sale. The store is appropriately named "JUNK,"  and is open 9 AM -9 PM, seven days a week.

How could we resist?  We had to walk in to browse along its aisles bursting with all kinds of antiques...

...and architectural salvage.  I'm glad I had my little pocket Cannon camera with me so I could show you a few of the items we saw.

I was especially fascinated by the very large selection of antique bottles and cans of all kinds and from all eras, complete with their vintage dust and dirt still adhered to them.  It is as if they had been unearthed in an archaeology dig, or more likely from a dark basement of a house torn down to make way for a new high rise.

We also saw aisle and aisles of vintage china and bric-a-brac.

Did we buy anything? Not really, as I'm trying to downsize my life right now and not add to my possessions, but it was an interesting place to poke around and explore.

If you are interested in visiting some flea markets and vintage shops in Brooklyn New York Magazine has locations listed on their web site for Williamsburg on this link, and the AOL real estate web site has a guide to Brooklyn Flea Markets and Thrift Shops on this link.

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I'm linking this post to "Seasonal Sundays" event on The Tablescaper's blog. "Mosaic Monday" event on Mary's Blog The Little Red House, and "Blue Monday" on Smiling Sally's blog. Thanks to all the blog hosts!