NYC Hospitality Innovator Sponsored By Heineken: The Wythe Hotel's Peter Lawrence, Encouraging Us To Wake Up In Williamsburg

Sell me on Brooklyn. I’m from Omaha and traveling to NYC and I have a week, why should I come here? “Because you can sit here and see (motions to skyline)… all of that! And just how fabulously insane it is and not have to be buried right in the middle of it. “ Ha don’t tell my parents that, they are never going to come back to Manhattan! “In Brooklyn, you wipe your feet before you walk into a building and you apologize to someone if you knock into them in the street and you’re just more aware of your surroundings and the people around you and what they’re doing. And in Manhattan you really can’t be because you just have to have that laser focus of getting through your day.” It’s definitely gentler here. “Definitely more gentle. People here will wave you past (in your car) and they will get upset if you don’t let them in." I’m sold! Porter (photographer): “You should totally move here!” Peter: (Laughing in agreement)