Coney Island is a peninsula, formerly an island, in the southernmost part of Brooklyn and a neighborhood of the same name. It is most famous…
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Williamsburg – or Hipsterville, U.S.A. – is New York’s ‘it’ neighborhood of the current and the past decade. Therefore it is often referred to as…
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Gowanus has been an active center of industrial and shipping activity since as early as the 1860s. During that time, a small saltwater creek was…
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Bedford-Stuyvesant, or Bed-Stuy, is New York City’s largest African American neighborhood. During and after World War II, many African Americans, who migrated from the southern…
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Bushwick is a neighborhood in Brooklyn with a very large Latin American population. Many residents of Bushwick are immigrants from Puerto Rico and the Dominican…
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Sunset Part is a very beautiful neighborhood in Brooklyn named after a park, which lies in the center of the neighborhood. This park affords visitors…
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Named for England’s beach resort in 1868, Brighton Beach shows little connection with England considering its amount of signs in Cyrillic these days. Brighton Beach is…
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Crown Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn known for its black, especially Caribbean, and its Hasidic Jewish population and culture. The coexistence of these two…
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Located in the southwestern part of Brooklyn, Borough Park is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods outside of Israel. This Orthodox Jewish enclave has…
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East New York is a neighborhood in the eastern section of Brooklyn. The area is predominantly inhabited by African Americans and Latin Americans. Formerly East…
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East Williamsburg is a neighborhood between Williamsburg, Greenpoint and Bushwick. Even though the City of New York recognizes East Williamsburg as a neighborhood, there are…
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Brownsville is a mostly residential neighborhood dominated by public housing projects. In fact the Brownsville section of Brooklyn contains the highest concentration of NYCHA developments…
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Williamsburg’s Southside has a very, very different character from its northern counterpart. A busy Hasidic Jewish community has settled in the neighborhood between Bedford Avenue…
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Fort Greene has long been known as a center for African American life and business. Spike Lee grew up in Fort Greene and his movie…
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Dumbo is a neighborhood located between the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn. The name is an acronym for “Down Under the Manhattan…
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Bensonhurst is a neighborhood in Brooklyn known for its Italian-American history. Compared to other parts of Brooklyn, this section is very quiet and its residents…
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Flatbush and neighboring East Flatbush are two neighborhoods very similar in nature in the central portion of Brooklyn. Both neighborhoods are known known for their…
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Consisting mostly of warehouses and factory buildings, the western part of Red Hook is one of the latest Brooklyn neighborhoods to be hyped by the…
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