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Your winter escape
Brooklyn spots for pretending it is still summer
By Jessica Parks
Brooklyn Paper
Winter officially starts this weekend,
but we are already dreaming
of warm weather. So here are
four summer spots in Brooklyn where
you can go to escape the winter, and
make those dreams come true.
Notes on Camp
A newly-opened toy store in Brooklyn’s
Downtown hides a secret summer
sanctum. Behind a bookcase at the back
of Camp, you will find a space decked
out to resemble a New England summer
camp — including a painted lake
with projected ripples, log cabins, trees
stretching to the ceiling, and a 1970s
station wagon that evokes memories of
old school road trips.
Every shelf is covered in toys, games,
and kids’ clothing, but there are also
plenty of free campground games to
keep kids occupied. Young campers can
immerse themselves in craft activities
that change each day, including making
masks or dreamcatchers, and then can
enjoy storytelling events or kids’ comedy
shows at the “Campitheatre.”
Adults can visit the camp canteen,
which offers coffee, along with Camp’s
signature flavor of ice cream from Ample
Hills: a chocolate, graham cracker, and
marshmallow mash-up dubbed Smores
Sprinkles.
Camp 1 Dekalb Ave. between Albee
Square West and Fleet Street in
Downtown, (917) 310–2448, camp.
com/locations/5-brooklyn. Sun–Wed,
10 am–7 pm; Thu–Sat 10 am–8 pm.
Free.
Tiki talk
Sip a drink from a coconut shell and
imagine that you are in the tropics, at
Crown Height’s tiki bar Super Power!
Fend off the winter doldrums by sipping
on summer cocktails served up in
beachy vessels, including a mezcal Mai
Tai, a frozen Painkiller, and the four-person
“Tea Punch” served in an enormous
conch shell and decorated with tiny umbrellas.
Outfitted in neon lights, glowing
pineapples, and sculptures of pufferfish,
Super Power helps patrons feel
like wintertime is far, far away.
Super Power 722 Nostrand Avenue
between Prospect Place and Park Place
in Crown Heights, (718) 484–0020, superpowerbrooklyn.
com. Mon–Fri 5
pm–4 am; Sat–Sun 2 pm–4 am.
A little horseplay: The toy store and activity center Camp features an
underground forest decorated like a summer camp, where kids can
forget about winter for a while.
Shuffle along
A Gowanus shuffleboard club offers
a helping stick for those who want to
feel that they are cruising the Caribbean.
Bring a friend or three and sign up for
the game traditionally played on board
a yacht, and you can send disks spinning
across one of the club’s 10 shuffleboard
courts. You will be surrounded
by plastic palm trees, pictures of pink
flamingos, and bartenders rocking Hawaiian
shirts. Between matches, you can
kick back on the summer patio furniture
while sipping a frozen pina colada from
one of the club’s two bars.
Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club (514
Union St. at Nevins Street in Gowanus,
www.royalpalmsshuffle.com). Mon–
Thu, 6 pm–midnight; Fri, 6 pm–2 am;
Sat, noon–2 am; Sun, noon–10 pm. $40
for shuffleboard court.
Winter oasis
Winter is the perfect season to visit
the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and learn
about the hottest spots on Earth. Inside
the Desert Pavilion, you can marvel
at the selection of cacti, wildflowers,
and succulents from hot, dry areas
around the world. Meanwhile, in the
nearby Tropical Pavilion, fruit trees
from near the equator are starting to
produce papaya, guava, orangeberries,
and jackfruit.
And as an extra inducement, the Gardens
are free on weekdays throughout
the winter season.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden 900 Washington
Ave. at Eastern Parkway in Prospect
Heights, (718) 623–7200, www.
bbg.org. Open Tue–Sun, 10 am–4:30
pm. Free on weekdays ($15 on Saturdays
and Sundays).
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