Category: Brooklyn

Williamsburg belongs to Brooklyn’s most exciting and popular neighborhoods and counts some 35,000 residents. In the past two decades, Williamsburg has become a highly influential center of contemporary music, jazz, soul, and indie rock, and it is known for its hipster culture.

The neighborhood offers a well-developed art scene, the finest restaurants, great music venues, and a vibrant nightlife, earning it the name ‘Little Berlin’, so go to Williamsburg and soak up the energetic creativity and young vibe that has characterized this mecca for the young and the creative for already many years.

Williamsburg is a bit of a mish-mash of vistas and cultures, and the Williamsburg hipster scene has transformed the area’s old industrial buildings into artistic centers, restaurants, the finest shops, and interesting music venues.

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Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is wonderfully average and empty. Inner Brooklyn is rather lame and ugly all things considered. The DUMBO area is nice, beyond that, the only state institutions built before WWII are nice to look at.

There was some great art by some dude who found random blokes on the street brought them into his studio and painted a portrait. The random person off the street would select a classic portrait, get his picture taken in that pose, then the artist would make a portrait of the person. Subversion of the past.

The first Saturday of each month the Brooklyn Museum hosts a free gala of fun! It was packed! I never thought that so many people would go to Brooklyn, let alone the museum. Apparently, TV hasn’t killed all American culture.

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Brooklyn is the second of New York City’s five boroughs. Brooklyn is continuing to break entirely out of the shadow of Manhattan rapidly. Brooklyn has a thriving music scene, and the nicest boutique hotels are appearing all around. If the borough of Brooklyn still would have been independent, it would have been the fourth-largest city in America.

Brooklyn houses a great number of interestingly different communities, from the Polish communities in Greenpoint and Brighton Beach’s Russian enclaves to the pushchairs mamas of Windsor Terrace and the Bushwick arty punks. Brooklyn has so many attractions that need to be discovered and there are plenty of things to do. Brooklyn is fascinating so take your time to explore this great part of New York City!

Main Brooklyn Attractions:

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
If you’re looking for a quiet moment, a little peace of mind, a bit of quiet, check out this verdant oasis and spend some hours to relax. Start out at the garden’s Visitor’s Center, which is actually very eco-friendly and comes with a roof that has 45,000 plants. The Botanic Garden houses a few other Brooklyn gems as well, Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum.

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Brooklyn College was established in the 1930s and is a beautifully situated 4-year college with Georgian-style buildings on a 26-acre location that includes top-notch art studios, lecture halls, classrooms, and science laboratories. The school’s students, more than 17,000 in total, are really a highly diverse community who come from all across and the rest of the world. So let’s check out Brooklyn College Academic Calendar and Scholarship Options.

What drives and unites all these students is their dedication to success in their future. Brooklyn College offers excellent and affordable academic programs, and also offers great financial packages and scholarships. The school is included in many “the best career path” suggestions, rated among nation’s “best value” colleges and regularly receives praise for its beautiful campus location.

Brooklyn College offers programs for undergraduate, graduate, and transfer students, from all over the world, as well as continuing education to students wishing to enhance their careers. Students who want to go for an MBA are welcome, and the school offers numerous scholarships, so let’s take a look at a few of your options:

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Green-wood Cemetery
5th Avenue & 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232, Phone: 718-768-7300

The beauty of Green-wood Cemetery (also referred to as Greenwood Cemetery) can only be matched by its astonishing art, impressive history, surprising architecture, and its numerous well-known residents. If you visit New York, and Brooklyn in particular, there is more to see than just the museums, and coming to Green-wood Cemetery is a must.

Green-Wood was established before Manhattan’s Central Park and it was founded during the ‘rural cemetery movement’, a direction that promoted building cemeteries that looked like, and functioned as, public parks. In the middle of the 19th century, Green-wood Cemetery was a highly visited tourist attraction, much like New York upstate’s Niagara Falls, with more than 500,000 visitors annually.

Everybody who was of any importance in New York wished to get buried at Green-wood, so the beautiful cemetery is home to many of Brooklyn and New York’s historical figures, celebrities, and inventors.

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If you visit New York, or in particular Brooklyn, you really need to take a stroll through Coney Island. There’s so much to be seen about the history and charm Brooklyn that was highlighted in so many plays, movies, and musicals.

Coney Island is home to the Mermaid Parade in June, the Cyclone and the Wonder Wheel, and offers over 35 (sort of historic) rides for the visitors to enjoy.

If you like history and amusement parks, Coney Island is really what you want to visit. The heydays are long past, but the economic uprise of Brooklyn has resulted in a fantastic comeback. Coney Island, with its old wooden rides, is really a Must See if you visit New York City.

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