THE BROOKLYN ICE CREAM FACTORY
Neighborhood: DUMBO, Brooklyn

If you like ice cream (and who doesn’t like ice cream?) a trip to the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory should be high on your to-do list. Happily, you can combine it with one of the city’s more conventional tourist activities—a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The shop is located on the Fulton Ferry Landing Pier, a scenic spot with a perfect view of the Manhattan skyline—a fact not lost on New York’s brides and grooms, who flock here to have their wedding photos taken. The ice cream factory offers only a few flavors at any given time, but it’s great stuff, super rich and less sweet than most ice creams, so the flavor is of pure, fresh cream. I would walk miles for a little cup of the peaches ‘n cream. I have, in fact.

Here are directions from the Brooklyn Bridge walkway:

1.) Exit the bridge via the stairs (not the ramp).
2.) At the bottom of the stairs, turn right.
3.) Walk about 100 feet, until you reach a paved path leading into a park.
4.) Turn right onto the path, and follow it across the park to Cadman Plaza West.
5.) Cross Cadman Plaza West (at Middagh Street).
6.) Walk down Middagh Street to Columbia Heights (four blocks).
7.) Cross Columbia Heights and turn right.
8.) Walk down hill to Old Fulton Street.
9.) Cross Old Fulton, then cross Water Street (to your left). The ice cream factory is straight ahead.

NOTE: Don't feel like walking? The New York Water Taxi stops just steps from the ice cream factory’s front door.

THE BROOKLYN ICE CREAM FACTORY
Fulton Ferry Landing Pier
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 246-3963

COST: $3 per scoop
HOURS: Tuesday-Sunday 12 PM to 10 PM
HOW TO GET THERE:
By train: “C” to High Street or “F” to York Street. For more detailed directions, visit http://www.hopstop.com/
By water taxi: visit http://www.nywatertaxi.com/