Freaky Fortnight - Michael Agger and Susan Burton

The Prospect Park Zoo, like all the best places to take kids, is kind of crappy and second-rate. Let the tourists gape at the polar bears in the swank Central Park Zoo. The Prospect Park Zoo has some depressing baboons and kangaroos that hide from you, and one-quarter of the exhibits always seem under construction. But it’s also homey, uncrowded, and staffed with friendly volunteers who will tell your sons cool stories about the animals that try to escape. Whenever I go the popular museums and attractions, I come home with a headache. Seek out the crummy places.

This quote has nothing to do with the surrounding series of articles in which a husband and wife switch jobs for two weeks, but it rings quite true.