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Coney Island beach and amusement parks (June 2016), Brooklyn, New York, United States

Brooklyn Museum Entrance (52302265063), Brooklyn, New York, United States

Brooklyn skyline, Brooklyn, New York, United States

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About Brooklyn

Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, spread across the western end of Long Island across the East River from Manhattan. Dutch settlers founded the village of Breuckelen in the 1640s, and Brooklyn grew into a major city of its own, the third largest in the United States, before joining New York City in 1898. The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 tied it to Manhattan and became one of the great engineering feats of the century.

Today Brooklyn has about 2.6 million residents and a famously varied mix of neighborhoods. Brownstone streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant sit alongside the warehouses-turned-studios of Williamsburg and DUMBO, the Caribbean culture of Flatbush and the Russian enclave of Brighton Beach. Its restaurants, music venues and independent shops have made Brooklyn a byword for creative city life.

Visitors come for walks across the Brooklyn Bridge, the views from Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, and the green expanse of Prospect Park, designed by the same team as Central Park. The Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden sit side by side, Barclays Center hosts concerts and NBA games, and Coney Island's boardwalk, beach and Wonder Wheel are a classic summer outing at the end of the subway line.

Best seasonApril to June and September to October for walking, parks and Coney Island's season from late May.

Ideal stayTwo to three days for the bridge and waterfront, Prospect Park, the museum and a few neighborhoods.

ArrivingJFK and LaGuardia airports are 30 to 60 minutes away; the subway connects every neighborhood to Manhattan.

What to See in Brooklyn: 12 Favorites

Landmarks 2

Brooklyn Bridge

When it opened in 1883, this was the longest suspension bridge in the world, designed by John A. Roebling and finished by his son...

Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch

Facing Grand Army Plaza, the Central Library opened in 1941 and is one of the borough's great Art Deco buildings. The facade is sh...

History 1

Green-Wood Cemetery

Founded in 1838, Green-Wood is a 478-acre National Historic Landmark of rolling hills, ponds, glacial valleys and Victorian monume...

Parks 3

Brooklyn Bridge Park and DUMBO

Old shipping piers along the East River have been turned into a long waterfront park with lawns, playgrounds, sports fields and so...

Prospect Park

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the designers of Central Park, laid out Prospect Park in the 1860s, and many people think...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Dating from 1910, this 52-acre garden packs in an impressive variety of plantings. The Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, created in 1...

Museums 2

Brooklyn Museum

Housed in a monumental Beaux-Arts building by McKim, Mead & White on Eastern Parkway, this is one of the largest art museums in th...

New York Transit Museum

Underground in a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Downtown Brooklyn, this museum tells the story of how New York built and ra...

Family 1

Coney Island

At the far southern tip of Brooklyn, Coney Island has been New York's seaside playground for well over a century. The wooden Cyclo...

Neighborhoods 2

Brooklyn Heights Promenade

This elevated walkway, built in the early 1950s over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, gives a sweeping view of Lower Manhattan, the...

Williamsburg

Once a district of factories and sugar refineries, Williamsburg is now one of Brooklyn's liveliest neighborhoods, packed with rest...

Entertainment 1

Barclays Center

Opened in 2012 above one of Brooklyn's biggest transit hubs, this arena is home to the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and the WNBA's New York...

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Express Repair New York

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B&P Consulting Corp

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149 Norman Ave, Brooklyn

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