Travel to Brooklyn New york City
Begin your tour at the Brookyn Tourism & Visitors Center in beautiful Borough Hall, which showcases the fabulous things to do and see in this great borough; from taking a rollercoaster ride, sunning on the beach, and seeing a dolphin show in Coney Island to exploring one of the world’s best Egyptian collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. A fun way to get to Brooklyn is to walk across the iconic Brooklyn Bridge (take the 4, 5, or 6 subway to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall; the bridge will be on your left). Finished in 1883, this engineering milestone ranks among the world’s greatest suspension bridges. Day or night, the view is spectacular.
Southern Brooklyn was once the premier resort destination for New York City.
Coney Island developed as a playground for the rich in the early 1900s, when wealthy New Yorkers would bet on horses at the Gravesend or Sheepshead Bay Race Track and dined at high-class restaurants and seaside hotels. No trip to Sheepshead Bay would be complete without a stop at the docks and then dinner at Lundy's Restaurant. The introduction of the subway made Coney Island a vacation destination for the masses, and it evolved into one of America's first amusement grounds. The Cyclone rollercoaster, built in 1927, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1920 Wonder Wheel and other rides are still operational at Astroland. Coney Island went into decline in the 1970s, but is undergoing a renaissance. The annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade is a hipster costume-and-float parade which honored David Byrne, pre-punk music guru, as the head merman in 1998.
The New York Transit Museum displays historical artifacts of the New York subway, commuter rail and bus systems; it is located in the former IND Court Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights. The 52 acre Brooklyn Botanic Garden includes a cherry tree esplanade, a one acre rose garden, a Japanese hill and pond garden, a fragrance garden for the blind, a water lily pond esplanade, several conservatories, a rock garden, a native flora garden, a bonsai tree collection, and children's gardens and discovery exhibits.
Begin your tour at the Brookyn Tourism & Visitors Center in beautiful Borough Hall, which showcases the fabulous things to do and see in this great borough; from taking a rollercoaster ride, sunning on the beach, and seeing a dolphin show in Coney Island to exploring one of the world’s best Egyptian collections at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. A fun way to get to Brooklyn is to walk across the iconic Brooklyn Bridge (take the 4, 5, or 6 subway to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall; the bridge will be on your left). Finished in 1883, this engineering milestone ranks among the world’s greatest suspension bridges. Day or night, the view is spectacular.Southern Brooklyn was once the premier resort destination for New York City.
Coney Island developed as a playground for the rich in the early 1900s, when wealthy New Yorkers would bet on horses at the Gravesend or Sheepshead Bay Race Track and dined at high-class restaurants and seaside hotels. No trip to Sheepshead Bay would be complete without a stop at the docks and then dinner at Lundy's Restaurant. The introduction of the subway made Coney Island a vacation destination for the masses, and it evolved into one of America's first amusement grounds. The Cyclone rollercoaster, built in 1927, is on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1920 Wonder Wheel and other rides are still operational at Astroland. Coney Island went into decline in the 1970s, but is undergoing a renaissance. The annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade is a hipster costume-and-float parade which honored David Byrne, pre-punk music guru, as the head merman in 1998.
The New York Transit Museum displays historical artifacts of the New York subway, commuter rail and bus systems; it is located in the former IND Court Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights. The 52 acre Brooklyn Botanic Garden includes a cherry tree esplanade, a one acre rose garden, a Japanese hill and pond garden, a fragrance garden for the blind, a water lily pond esplanade, several conservatories, a rock garden, a native flora garden, a bonsai tree collection, and children's gardens and discovery exhibits.
