In the 1600’s this area was a major shipping and transportation center and this lasted through the the early part of the 19th century.

The museum was founded in 1976, and is located in a 1936 subway station in Downtown Brooklyn.

The Dyker Heights Holiday display has become one of the most sought out New York attraction during the holiday season.

Built between 1869 and 1883, the iconic Brooklyn Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world, at the time of completion. It was the first roadway connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan.

This section of Brooklyn, was land once owned by the Ditmas Family. The Ditmas Park Historic District is a National Historic District which contains approximately 2,000 buildings, mostly residential.

Coney Island is the name of both a neighborhood and a landmark amusement park. Between 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement park in the United States. Switchback Railway, a gravity coaster was built in 1884.

Some 600,000 permanent residents call Green-Wood Cemetery home. Inspired in part by the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, Highgate Cemetery in London and Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, it was founded in 1838 by Henry Evelyn Pierrepont and designed by David Bates Douglass, and was one of the first rural cemeteries in America.