Walking Tour Meets Love Story: Park Slope

Have you ever considered experiencing your hood from another perspective?  James Carter has.  Carter is the creator of NY_Hearts, a fully immersive neighborhood experience that riffs on the popular walking tours of NYC by infusing them with a plot, characters, neighborhood locales, “free” gifts along the way and a handy-dandy app to tie it all together.

Originally launched in 2012 in the LES as part of the Game Play Festival by The Brick Theatre, the latest installment drops you in Park Slope for an interactive three-hour tour(…a three-hour tour). Stops along the way include Babeland, DeLuxe, and Bar Toto. 

I don’t know about you guys but nothing says idyllic Park Slope to me like a sex shop, a random coffee joint in South Slope and a bar named after Dorothy’s Dog.  Admittedly, I’ve never been to any of these fine establishments and they’re most likely excellent in their own right.

All in all it’s fun idea. Reminiscent of “Sleep No More”, it’s experimental theater meets tourism meets hospitality meets technology. The marketing possibilities alone are limitless.

So tell me, FIPSters: does this sound like something you’d do?  If you were to organize the story/tour where would your stops be? 

For just $25 I think I’d don my freak flag for an afternoon and let it rip.

VIA TRULYNET.COM