# Travel to Brooklyn NY this weekened **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 1, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-to-brooklyn-ny-this-weekened/639610 "2012-11-01T20:28:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-to-brooklyn-ny-this-weekened/639610/1 "2012-11-01T20:28:41Z")
I need to be in Brooklyn Saturday morning 8am. My plan is to find a hotel as close as possible(which will be problematic) and drive to the hotel tomorrow night from MA. Then head into Brooklyn in the morning. Anything I should know about road closures and such due to the hurricane damage? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-to-brooklyn-ny-this-weekened/639610/2 "2012-11-01T20:38:59Z")
Where in Brooklyn? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-to-brooklyn-ny-this-weekened/639610/3 "2012-11-01T21:16:51Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Where in Brooklyn? 1700 E 15th st ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-to-brooklyn-ny-this-weekened/639610/4 "2012-11-01T21:48:08Z")
You can’t use the Lincoln Tunnel or the Henry Hudson bridge (or the triborough) to enter Manhattan unless you have three people in your car. Plan your route accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-to-brooklyn-ny-this-weekened/639610/5 "2012-11-01T22:31:20Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > 1700 E 15th st Well at least you won’t be underwater. 😃 Things change day-by-day, but currently: - You can not use the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, Holland Tunnel, or Queens Midtown Tunnel. - Lincoln Tunnel requires three passengers per vehicle. My suggestion would be Throgs Neck -\> Belt Pkwy -\> Ocean Pkwy -\> Kings Highway. A bit circuitous, but it avoids surface streets in Brooklyn (some of which still have debris) and it avoids the Manhattan crossings (the available ones of which are backed up to hell.) But things may be very different by the weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-to-brooklyn-ny-this-weekened/639610/6 "2012-11-02T17:15:04Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > I need to be in Brooklyn Saturday morning 8am. My plan is to find a hotel as close as possible(which will be problematic) and drive to the hotel tomorrow night from MA. Then head into Brooklyn in the morning. If it’s not too late, maybe a hotel in Brooklyn; there are a couple on the R train, so one change, and that’s easier than driving at the best of times. Though P and East 15th is going to be dead on a Saturday morning, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/travel-to-brooklyn-ny-this-weekened/639610/7 "2012-11-02T17:22:45Z")
You’re driving in to Brooklyn from Massachussetts? How keen are you on driving back the same weekend? Because there’s effectively no gas on Long Island for the foreseeable future - they’re saying Monday or Tuesday we MAY see a significant increase in the fuel they’re able to get into the city and Long Island. By which designation I include the NYC boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. People are waiting 3+ hours in line just to hope to get some gas at some of the few remaining stations that are up and running, and it’s very possible they’ll run out before you reach the pump. Cops are being stationed at these gas stations to enforce orderly queueing, and to prevent (further) fist, knife and gun fights from erupting over places in line. It’s even worse in New Jersey, and there have been reports of desperate Jersey drivers crossing two bridges to get to Brooklyn when the social media rumor mill reports that such-and-such station got a delivery. Bottom line: if you must drive in, I hope your car is fuel efficient enough to make it to Brooklyn and back on a single tank, and be sure to fill up your tank BEFORE you set out. If you’re an enterprising sort, fill up jerrycans of fuel and sell them in Brooklyn as a massive markup. You’ll make a huge profit, though maybe you’ll get mugged. Probably both actually, but in that order.