Brooklyn Bridge Park
A waterfront park built on former piers, with lawns, playgrounds and skyline views.
Places
Places to see in Brooklyn
Landmarks, parks, museums and historic sites, with a short note on why each matters.
Brooklyn Bridge (Brooklyn entrance)
Opened in 1883; the pedestrian promenade links Brooklyn to Manhattan.
Domino Park
A waterfront park on the site of the former Domino Sugar refinery.
Brooklyn Navy Yard
A former naval shipyard, now a campus of manufacturers, designers and startups.
Barclays Center
The arena for concerts, sports and events at the Pacific Park site.
BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
Founded in 1861; a landmark for theatre, dance, film and music in Fort Greene.
Pratt Institute
An art, design and architecture college with a sculpture-filled campus in Clinton Hill.
Weeksville Heritage Center
Preserves the history of Weeksville, a free Black community founded in the 1800s.
Brooklyn Museum
A major art museum on Eastern Parkway, beside Prospect Park.
Prospect Park
Brooklyn’s great park, designed by Olmsted and Vaux, with a lake, meadows and woods.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A botanic garden beside Prospect Park, known for its Japanese garden and spring blossoms.
Brooklyn Public Library — Central Library
The central branch of the borough’s public library system.
Brooklyn College (CUNY)
A public college of the City University of New York in Flatbush.
Canarsie Pier
A fishing and waterfront pier on Jamaica Bay, part of Gateway National Recreation Area.
Coney Island Boardwalk
The beach, the 2.5-mile Riegelmann Boardwalk and the amusement area at Brooklyn’s southern tip: rides, hot dogs, concerts and an Atlantic sunset. Beach lifegua…
The Cyclone
A wooden roller coaster that opened in 1927 and is a New York City landmark. It is one of the signature rides of Coney Island’s amusement area.
Wonder Wheel & Luna Park
The Wonder Wheel, a Ferris wheel from 1920 with swinging cars, stands beside Luna Park, the modern amusement park that reopened on the site of the old Astrolan…
New York Aquarium
The aquarium run by the Wildlife Conservation Society has stood at Coney Island since 1957, with sea otters, sharks, penguins and a focus on ocean conservation.