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
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
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
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
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York
Fort Greene has earned many bragging rights. It?s home to Brooklyn?s only skyscraper, the 512-foot-tall Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower. It has the oldest performing-arts institution in the country, the still-vibrant Brookly... trails.com
Boerum Hill And Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York
Begin near a large mall of today?s most recognizable chain stores. Cross the street and you are transported into the 19th century. Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill, adjacent neighborhoods south of Atlantic Ave., were fashionable d... trails.com
Carroll Gardens And Gowanus, Brooklyn, New York
The ?Carroll? comes from Declaration of Independence signatory Charles Carroll; the ?Gardens? from the neighborhood design conceived by surveyor Richard Butts in 1846. The houses? deep front yards have been well cared for ove... 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