Guidebook for Brooklyn
Parks & Nature
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington AveA stroll through Prospect Park is an easy way to spend a memorable day. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted after the completion of Central Park, it boasts 90 acres of wide, open fields for baseball and soccer, trails for running (the loop is 3.35 miles), bike riding, and horseback riding; summer concerts at the Prospect Park Bandshell; an all-season ice skating rink at the LeFrak Center; and several playgrounds. The park also has a zoo with a barn housing goats, chickens, horses, alpacas and sheep for feeding, a sea lion show, prairie dog burrows, cuddly meerkats, a duck pond and a huge aviary. Steps from the zoo is the magnificent 1912 Prospect Park Carousel, and one of the city's biggest gr
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Parque Prospect
A stroll through Prospect Park is an easy way to spend a memorable day. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted after the completion of Central Park, it boasts 90 acres of wide, open fields for baseball and soccer, trails for running (the loop is 3.35 miles), bike riding, and horseback riding; summer concerts at the Prospect Park Bandshell; an all-season ice skating rink at the LeFrak Center; and several playgrounds. The park also has a zoo with a barn housing goats, chickens, horses, alpacas and sheep for feeding, a sea lion show, prairie dog burrows, cuddly meerkats, a duck pond and a huge aviary. Steps from the zoo is the magnificent 1912 Prospect Park Carousel, and one of the city's biggest gr
This stretch of revitalized industrial waterfront running from the Manhattan Bridge to the Brooklyn Bridge appeals to kids and grown-ups alike. Dotted with playgrounds, meadows for picnicking and frolicking, concessions from local businesses such as Ample Hills Creamery, Lizzmonade and Fornino, the Park also boasts sand volleyball, full court basketball, kayaking, swimming in the pop-up pool (equipped with locker rooms, sandy beach and tiki bar and grill) and roller skating. Not to mention Jane's Carousel, an impeccably restored merry-go-round that dates to 1922, overlooking the water and housed in a clear glass pavilion designed by Pritzker-Prize winning French architect Jean Nouvel. BBP's
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Parque del Puente de Brooklyn
334 Furman StThis stretch of revitalized industrial waterfront running from the Manhattan Bridge to the Brooklyn Bridge appeals to kids and grown-ups alike. Dotted with playgrounds, meadows for picnicking and frolicking, concessions from local businesses such as Ample Hills Creamery, Lizzmonade and Fornino, the Park also boasts sand volleyball, full court basketball, kayaking, swimming in the pop-up pool (equipped with locker rooms, sandy beach and tiki bar and grill) and roller skating. Not to mention Jane's Carousel, an impeccably restored merry-go-round that dates to 1922, overlooking the water and housed in a clear glass pavilion designed by Pritzker-Prize winning French architect Jean Nouvel. BBP's
Arts & Culture
Trendy place in downtown Brooklyn. Theatre inside. Check out their calendar to see what is happening. https://www.bam.org/visit
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Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette AveTrendy place in downtown Brooklyn. Theatre inside. Check out their calendar to see what is happening. https://www.bam.org/visit
The Brooklyn Museum is the second-largest art museum in New York after the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is reason enough to visit. But it also houses one of the most impressive collections of ancient Egyptian art as well as works by Georgia O'Keeffe, John Singer Sargent and George Bellows. Special exhibitions explore the world far and near, including "David Bowie Is" (through July 15), and "William Trost Richards: Experiments in Watercolor" (through Sept. 9).
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Museo de Brooklyn
200 Eastern PkwyThe Brooklyn Museum is the second-largest art museum in New York after the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is reason enough to visit. But it also houses one of the most impressive collections of ancient Egyptian art as well as works by Georgia O'Keeffe, John Singer Sargent and George Bellows. Special exhibitions explore the world far and near, including "David Bowie Is" (through July 15), and "William Trost Richards: Experiments in Watercolor" (through Sept. 9).
New York Transit Museum
89 E 42nd StAntique trains and buses
Drinks & Nightlife
This is a LOUD active spot. Live Band. Trendy Brooklynites. And good conversation
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LunÀtico
486 Halsey StThis is a LOUD active spot. Live Band. Trendy Brooklynites. And good conversation
Shopping
Just across the street from Barclay Center
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Atlantic Terminal station
Just across the street from Barclay Center
Centro Gateway
579 Gateway DrHUGE shopping center
Essentials
Large, Clean and close to the house. They offer free delivery upon request. They also have a deli that serves a few hot meals
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America's Food Basket
2220 Atlantic AveLarge, Clean and close to the house. They offer free delivery upon request. They also have a deli that serves a few hot meals
V&E Rainbow Laundromat
5A Hull StLaundromat. They also offer Drop off service for great prices.
Sightseeing
The Brooklyn restaurant scene has mushroomed all over the borough, but Williamsburg may have more terrific restaurants, block by block, than any other neighborhood. An ideal day of eating would begin with breakfast at Egg (try Eggs Rothko -- easy-cooked egg in a slice of Amy's brioche and topped with Grafton cheddar) followed by a coffee at Blue Bottle; lunch at Andrew Tarlow's iconic hyperlocal American spot, Diner; a handmade cocktail on the roof at the Wythe Hotel followed by a bottle of bubbly and an icy tray of oysters from the expansive raw bar at Maison Premiere; steaks at St. Anselm, or the regional American tasting menu by chef Patti Jackson at Delaware and Hudson.
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Williamsburg
The Brooklyn restaurant scene has mushroomed all over the borough, but Williamsburg may have more terrific restaurants, block by block, than any other neighborhood. An ideal day of eating would begin with breakfast at Egg (try Eggs Rothko -- easy-cooked egg in a slice of Amy's brioche and topped with Grafton cheddar) followed by a coffee at Blue Bottle; lunch at Andrew Tarlow's iconic hyperlocal American spot, Diner; a handmade cocktail on the roof at the Wythe Hotel followed by a bottle of bubbly and an icy tray of oysters from the expansive raw bar at Maison Premiere; steaks at St. Anselm, or the regional American tasting menu by chef Patti Jackson at Delaware and Hudson.
There are many great Brooklyn neighborhoods to explore on foot -- Williamsburg, Park Slope and Cobble Hill are all solid options. But perhaps the most inspiring neighborhood to walk through is its oldest: Brooklyn Heights. It's on these tree-lined streets that a Revolutionary War battle was waged, and where many of the city's most notable writers lived -- Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Norman Mailer and W.E.B. DuBois, to name just a few. Walking here you'll find cobblestone streets, bona fide mansions, antebellum wooden-framed row houses and iconic brownstones. The Brooklyn Heights Association gives guided tours of the interiors of many of the neighborhood's landmark buildin
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Brooklyn Heights
There are many great Brooklyn neighborhoods to explore on foot -- Williamsburg, Park Slope and Cobble Hill are all solid options. But perhaps the most inspiring neighborhood to walk through is its oldest: Brooklyn Heights. It's on these tree-lined streets that a Revolutionary War battle was waged, and where many of the city's most notable writers lived -- Truman Capote, Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Norman Mailer and W.E.B. DuBois, to name just a few. Walking here you'll find cobblestone streets, bona fide mansions, antebellum wooden-framed row houses and iconic brownstones. The Brooklyn Heights Association gives guided tours of the interiors of many of the neighborhood's landmark buildin
DUMBO -- which stands for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass -- is teeming with talent, and its galleries are lucky enough to capture much of it. Visit United Photo Industries, which presents public installations and has a permanent exhibition space featuring a range of photography; then check out the mixed media, street art and sculpture on display at Masters Projects, and all the contemporary reductive abstract art you like at Minus Space. A.I.R. (Artists in Residence) Gallery, which opened in 1972 as the first all-female cooperative gallery in the United States, hosts shows, talks and lectures. Aside from galleries, DUMBO is also home to many studios which host open studio weekends view
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Dumbo
65 Plymouth StDUMBO -- which stands for Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass -- is teeming with talent, and its galleries are lucky enough to capture much of it. Visit United Photo Industries, which presents public installations and has a permanent exhibition space featuring a range of photography; then check out the mixed media, street art and sculpture on display at Masters Projects, and all the contemporary reductive abstract art you like at Minus Space. A.I.R. (Artists in Residence) Gallery, which opened in 1972 as the first all-female cooperative gallery in the United States, hosts shows, talks and lectures. Aside from galleries, DUMBO is also home to many studios which host open studio weekends view
Food Scene
Daily Press Coffee and Bar
38 Somers Stnear Fulton & Rockaway
Daily Press Coffee and Bar
38 Somers Sttumeric latte