Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York
In the late 19th century, Clinton Hill was the most prestigious address in Brooklyn after Brooklyn Heights. Charles Pratt, Brooklyn?s wealthiest resident and the owner of Greenpoint-based Astral Oil, put the neighborhood on t... trails.com
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Williamsburg?s 21st-century reinvention as hipster haven Billyburg occurred after decades of poverty and neglect. It?s only the latest transformation for an area that?s had many identities. From a farming village within the 1... trails.com
Around Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York
This is a lengthy walk from the westernmost to easternmost point of Prospect Park. It?s no straight line, and you never set foot inside the park. Instead, the walk skirts the park, taking you through Windsor Terrace south to ... trails.com
Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
Aside from those Brooklynites still squawking about the ?mistake of ?98,? Downtown holds the most reminders that Brooklyn used to be a separate city: government buildings, a concentration of shops and banks, and many former o... trails.com
Eastern Parkway Trail
The Eastern Parkway Trail is a 2-mile route along a tree-lined boulevard in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. The path begins at Prospect Park, which houses some of Brooklyn's most popular attractions, including the B... traillink.com
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York
Unlike many Brooklyn neighborhoods with ?Hill? in their name, Bay Ridge actually sits on elevated ground?a bluff overlooking Upper New York Bay. It was the proximity to and views of the water that attracted Manhattan?s elite ... trails.com
Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York
Red Hook is the overnight success of Brooklyn?s renaissance. In a matter of months the neighborhood went from off-the-radar rat hole to purported hotbed of gentrification and fine cuisine. But the hype was probably premature.... trails.com
Bedford-stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York
Bedford-Stuyvesant, the district that made history by electing the first black woman to the U.S. Congress (Shirley Chisholm), had become synonymous with ?ghetto? by the 1970s. Comedian Chris Rock now jokes about his mid-?80s ... trails.com
Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, New York
Prospect Heights may be the richest neighborhood in Brooklyn?not in income, but in institutions. The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, and Brooklyn Botanic Garden are all located here, as well as Grand Army Plaza, whi... trails.com
Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
In tracing the history of Bushwick, one of the five original Kings County towns founded by the Dutch (as Boswijck in 1661), two words are bound to come up: beer and blackout. Bushwick?s brewing industry, which before Prohibit... trails.com
Manhattan Bridge And Ferry District, Brooklyn, New York
The 1,470-foot-long Manhattan Bridge is the youngest of the three lower East River spans, completed in 1909. Overshadowed in historical significance and renown by its southern neighbor, the Brooklyn Bridge, it gets only a fra... trails.com
Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Heights needs no introduction, since it?s the one place in Brooklyn likely to have been visited by tourists and residents of the other boroughs. It?s even recognizable to those who haven?t been here, through its nume... trails.com
Fort Hamilton To Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York
New Utrecht was one of the five original towns established by the Dutch in the 17th century in what would eventually become the city, then borough, of Brooklyn. This walk includes present-day neighborhoods within the area onc... trails.com
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
Greenpoint was one of Brooklyn?s centers of the ?black arts,? with more than 50 oil refineries and 20 glass factories in operation in the late 19th century. But industry was on the decline by the mid-20th century, and its ves... trails.com
Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York
Park Slope was rediscovered during the brownstone revival of the late 1960s, so it has been a primo address for some time. The millionaires who transformed it into Brooklyn?s Gold Coast after Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Br... trails.com
Dumbo And Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn, New York
In the past decade, artists and dot-commers have turned this no-man?s-land down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass into another Soho, converting warehouses into trendy residential and cultural venues. The attitude may be boh... trails.com
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York
Crown Heights. It?s one of those places, like Selma or Kent State, forever linked in people?s minds with a violent event. For Crown Heights, it was three days of rioting in August 1991 that ensued when a seven-year-old black ... trails.com
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York
On one Saturday every June, the flags of over 50 nations are proudly hoisted, waved, and applauded during Sunset Park?s Parade of Flags, a celebration unique to this polyglot neighborhood. Sunset Park has been an ethnic encla... trails.com