This weekend bucket list idea is an oldie but a goodie - a day trip to Governor's Island (and the ferry) is always fun.
If you've already been there you know the deal so just take my advice on one thing. Do not go on a holiday weekend. Seriously. The ferries are insane and everyone has the same idea as you. Wait til a normal weekend, otherwise you're going to be queued up for a WHILE and anxious about getting on the boat before it hits capacity.
That being said - NYC ferries make this trip super convenient.
Download the NYC Ferry app and pre buy your tickets. This works like a MTA card and the tickets are good until you active them.
From Williamsburg, we caught East River (teal) route to Wall Street and then transferred to the South Brooklyn (yellow) route to Governor's Island. This will cost you just one ferry ticket.
Enjoy the views of both Brooklyn and Manhattan and even take a far away peak of the new Louis Vuitton x Nike Air Force 1 collab designed by the late Virgil Abloh in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
First things first on Governor's Island was to eat. In retrospect, due to how crazy busy the island was on Memorial Day, we wished we would have brought food or just eaten at home. The lines everywhere were crazy - and we ended up wasting a lot of our day in line.
That being said, we grabbed some beers from Three's Brewing to distract us while in line at Tokyo Drumstick.
Total wanna be blogger fail - I didn't take a pic of our food. But I will say it was delicious. We had Korean Nachos: chips topped with cheese, beans, kimchi, cheese and DUMPLINGS?! What a combo. Preview their amazing non dumpling version here
Next stop, Citibike. The island has 3 stations, on the north, south and east sides. The north station definitely seems to be the most popular so I'd recommend planning to park elsewhere. You can bike all around the perimeter with views of the Statue of Liberty. We parked on the southern most station and then decided to chill on the grass for a bit before catching our ferry home back to Brooklyn.
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