Brooklyn hot spots

Paradise, Brooklyn Style: A Day at Coney Island

Paradise, Brooklyn Style: A Day at Coney Island

Sep 20, 2013

By Elyssa Goodman   Almost everyone who comes to Coney Island is a tourist, and honestly that’s part of the fun! How often do we get to be tourists in our own city, staring up at the skyline or out into the water and enjoying even for a few hours a getaway from the madness of city life? At Coney Island, you get to do that and be a kid again, hot dogs,...

Brooklyn’s Historic Neighborhoods

Brooklyn’s Historic Neighborhoods

Nov 24, 2008

If you grew up in Brooklyn you probably have a “in my day” story about TriBeCa, Harlem, and Williamsburg. With dynamic, and vastly different histories, those three neighborhoods have become trendy destinations with coveted addresses. Today’s bearded, L-train riders, with their mini fedoras, are all over Williamsburg, assuring your grandfather would not...