Let's Pitch a Tent Together: Camping in Brooklyn!

Last time I made the epic bike journey from the Slope to Tilden Beach (epic for moi, at least), I dreaded the ride back. My quads and ass ached for a nap and I would have gladly traded my little red Schwinn for a place to crash for the night, just until the jello-jiggly feeling in my legs subsided. Well that dream will soon be a reality. Start packing marshmallows and bug spray with your sunscreen and frisbees, 'cause our southern tip of Brooklyn is getting a campground!  

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who oversees the National Park Service, announced Monday that Floyd Bennett Field, an airport once graced by Charles Lindbergh, Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart, will be converted into the country's largest urban campground (take THAT, every other city). FBF was the city's first municipal airport, but is rarely used for aviation these days. Salazar says we can expect an initial five campsites to expand into ninety over the next two years, and could eventually reach as many as 600. That sounds like it could be tight quarters, but that's kind of how we New Yorkers roll, right? Tent flaps, thin apartment walls -- either way we're going to hear everything our neighbors say. At least at a campground it's more likely to be a ghost story than a raging fight over who accidentally erased Glee from the DVR.

Kumbaya, Brooklyn. Kumbaya.

[Via Crain's]