How do you get to Brooklyn...

How do you get to the River Cafe in Brooklyn from 44th street and 5th avenue? Is the ride and restaurant pricey? Dress Code?

How do you get to Brooklyn...

There are four ways to get there:

1) Hail a taxi in Manhattan, and go to the River Cafe (be warned, many cabbies do NOT know how to get there.)

2) Take the subway to Borough Hall in Brooklyn and catch a cab there - cheaper than the above, and slightly better chance the cabbie can find Front Street in Brooklyn.

3) Take the subway to High Street, and walk the five blocks or so down the hill. Cheapest of all, but not recommended in rain or snow.

4) Depending on the time of day, go to Pier 11 near Wall Street and take the water taxi over the river.

How do you get to Brooklyn...

Restaurant is pricey. For more detailed info and dress code go to their website

rivercafe.com

re #2 for greenwhiteblue - there isn%26#39;t a snowball%26#39;s chance in hell of you getting a taxi at Borough Hall in Brooklyn - yellow cabs simply do not ply their trade in Brooklyn - so don%26#39;t even think of trying to get a cab while in Brooklyn.

Other than the subway your best bet is to get a car service to and from.

You can combine this with your walk over the Brooklyn Bridge if that was ever on the list of things to do. It%26#39;s not far from the end of the bridge.

Hi

I agree with LTT, car service is the way to go if you%26#39;re not taking the subway (which involves a walk at the end to reach the restaurant)...this way the price is pre-determined %26amp; your driver will know the destination (specify this to the car service company - it%26#39;s their job to provide directions if the driver doesn%26#39;t know...however, this being said I always take along the address/phone number of the destination in the car as back-up). Taxi%26#39;s can run up a huge fare if there%26#39;s traffic on the bridge, or if they take a wrong turn - a lot of us Brooklyn-dwellers use car service. River Cafe can help you arrange for car service back to the city as well (some queue up in their parking lot). It is a pretty restaurant w/an amazing view...enjoy your trip.

Re livetotravel%26#39;s comment -- it is true that yellow cabs do not ordinarily work in Brooklyn. However, people do take cabs to Brooklyn, and the cabs head back for the bridges. One has very little chance of finding a yellow cab in Park Slope, for example, but one can easily find one on the streets of Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Heights that lead to the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges -- including near the Borough Hall subway station. Anyone who needs a cab in the city could find few better places to catch one than, say, the end of Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights where it turns into Tillary -- and cabs can regularly be gotten on Adams Street.

For most of Brooklyn, however, it is very true to say that you will find a flamingo on the street more easily than you will find a yellow cab.