Kensington

Worth seeing in and around Kensington

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Brooklyn Museum

   The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects.

   2.8 km · art museum in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Prospect Park

   Prospect Park is a 526-acre urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

   1.7 km · public park in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Brooklyn College

   Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolled nearly 14,000 students on a 35-acre campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall 2023.

   2.3 km · senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Brooklyn Botanic Garden

   Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The botanical garden occupies 52 acres in central Brooklyn, close to Mount Prospect Park, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum.

   2.5 km · botanical garden in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Brooklyn Public Library

   The Brooklyn Public Library is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors.

   2.9 km · public library system in New York City · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Grand Army Plaza

   Grand Army Plaza, originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, is a public plaza that comprises the northern corner and the main entrance of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It consists of concentric oval rings arranged as streets, with the namesake Plaza Street comprising the outer ring.

   3.1 km · public square in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Lesbian Herstory Archives

   The Lesbian Herstory Archives is a New York City-based archive, community center, and museum dedicated to preserving lesbian history, located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Archives contain the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians.

   1.9 km · archive, history museum in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Brooklyn Children's Museum

   The Brooklyn Children's Museum is a children's museum in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Founded in 1899, it is the first children's museum in the United States and, according to Time magazine, the world's oldest such museum.

   3.9 km · chidren's museum in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Gowanus Canal

   The Gowanus Canal is a 1.8-mile-long canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the westernmost portion of Long Island. Once a vital cargo transportation hub, the canal has seen decreasing use since the mid-20th century as domestic shipping declined.

   3.6 km · canal in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Prospect Park Zoo

    The Prospect Park Zoo is a 12-acre zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York City. As of 2016, the zoo houses 864 animals representing about 176 species, and as of 2007, it averaged 300,000 visitors annually.

    2.2 km · zoo in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kensington

Airports

John F. Kennedy (JFK), 16 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 17 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 18 km

Stations

Avenue H, 1.9 km · 36th Street station, 3 km · Flatbush Avenue – Brooklyn College, 2.5 km · Avenue I, 2.3 km · Fourth Avenue / Ninth Street, 3.1 km

• Philadelphia → Kensington

  5 km · quickest by road, 15 min · $0.5
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• Hartford → Kensington

  16 km · quickest by road, 33 min · $1.5–2
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• Albany → Kensington

  224 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · $20–28
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