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
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
High Line
Start spreading the news about New York City's innovative new public park. The High Line rail-trail is an urban marvel, stretching 1.5 miles and towering almost 30 feet above street level through several neighborhoods in t... traillink.com
Old Putnam Trail
Splayed over 1,146 acres in northwest Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park has a lot going on. The park is New York City's fourth largest and is home to the oldest municipal golf course in America. There are playgrounds, walking trai... traillink.com
The Green-wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
Yes, the ?The? belongs in the name, as does the hyphen, though Green and Wood are not the cemetery?s patrons, but two pastoral images from this 478-acre greensward of hills and ponds and a fascinating collection of statuary. ... 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
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
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
Flatbush And Midwood, Brooklyn, New York
Only a few neighborhood names are instantly recognized by nonresidents. The Left Bank is one. The French Quarter another. In Brooklyn, Flatbush has earned that honor. Non?New Yorkers got to know Flatbush from the movies, the ... 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
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
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
Hackensack Meadowlands, Lyndhurst, New Jersey
Follow the trail as it gently climbs a man-made mountain. The six-acre Kingsland Overlook represents a high-tech solution to the landfill reclamation problem. Tons of household waste were capped by a waterproof fabric made fr... 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
Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, pioneers of landscape architecture and the urban parks movement in the United States, are most famous for Central Park but were prouder of Prospect Park. When they had designed Central ... trails.com
Cypress Hills And Highland Park, Brooklyn, New York
?Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,? goes the title of a short story by Thomas Wolfe. He lived way over west in Cobble Hill, but the aphorism could apply to the easternmost nook of Brooklyn, where about 20 cemeteries straddle the b... trails.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
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