Brooklyn
Brooklyn, coextensive with Kings County, is the most populous of the five boroughs and counties of New York City.
Brooklyn, coextensive with Kings County, is the most populous of the five boroughs and counties of New York City. Located at the westernmost end of Long Island and formerly an independent city, Brooklyn shares a land border with the borough and county of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, including the architecturally significant Brooklyn Bridge, and is connected to Staten Island by the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
See the Districts articles for more listings. Downtown is where you'll find the one of the most famous of all New York landmarks: the Brooklyn Bridge, which connects the borough to Lower Manhattan. Grand Army Plaza marks the gateway to Prospect Park, and is home to the distinctive Soldiers and Sailors Arch. Coney Island is a hotspot during the summer season.
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Things to do
See the Districts articles for more listings. The Brooklyn Academy of Music and Bargemusic in Downtown are both excellent options for concerts. During the summer season, Prospect Park hosts the Celebrate Brooklyn concert campaign every weekend in the Bandshell area of the park.
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Where to eat
See the Districts articles for more listings. 8th Avenue (or Third Chinatown), stretching from 40th Street to 62nd Street, holds its own against Canal Street and Flushing. Fancy gourmet restaurants to alleyway noodle shops, Malaysian to Vietnamese and fare from every Chinese province, the neighborhood has it all. Closest subway is the N-line's '8th Avenue' stop on 62nd and 8th.
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Getting to Brooklyn
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 14 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 16 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 19 km
- Philadelphia → Brooklyn129 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $12–17
- Hartford → Brooklyn163 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · $15–21
- Albany → Brooklyn223 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · $20–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Brooklyn
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brooklyn. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe [http://www.nywatertaxi.com Water Taxi, at Fulton Ferry Landing, provides service from various points in Manhattan along the East River.
- Get inThe Water Taxi has service between southern Manhattan and Red Hook, often used by customers of the Red Hook Ikea.
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Next door to Brooklyn
Brooklyn is 9 km from New York City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.