THE OUTER BOROUGHS - Rough Guide to New York City - page 277

The latest attempt to reimagine New York's waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge Park begins
around Fulton Ferry Landing and runs alongside Brooklyn Heights down to Atlantic Aven-
ue. Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park boasts Jane's Carousel (May-Sept Mon & Wed-Sat
11am-7pm, Oct-April Thurs-Sun 11am-6pm; $2) and brilliant views of the bridges, while
Pier 6 has a cool water-play area, huge sandpit, steep slides and ferries to Governors Island .
There's also boating, beach volleyball and outdoor movies.

BLDG 92
Flushing Ave at Carlton Ave, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard 718 907 5992, www.bldg92.org . Wed-Sun

noon-6pm. Free, Navy Yard tours (2hr) $30. MAP
Another waterfront-redevelopment success, the industrial park of once-derelict Brooklyn
Navy Yard has become an attraction in its own right. Visit BLDG 92 to get acquainted with
the yard's history; the centre, a modular, energy-efficient glass structure attached to an 1857
brick house, holds a museum with three floors of exhibitions (an 11-tonne anchor hangs
down to greet you as you enter). Linger over models of ships built at the yard, including the
USS Ohio , Maine and Missouri , and hear from the likes of historian Howard Zinn, who
worked at the yard in his youth.
NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM
Intersection of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn St, Downtown Brooklyn. Subway #2, #3, #4, #5 to Borough
Hall; A, C, F, R to Jay Street-MetroTech. 718 694 1600, www.mta.info/mta/museum . Tues-Fri 10am-4pm,

Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. $7, children 2-17 $5. MAP
Housed in an abandoned 1930s subway station, the Transit Museum offers more than one
hundred years' worth of transportation history and memorabilia, including antique turn-
stiles, and more than twenty restored subway cars and buses that you can hop on and off of.
It's an excellent place for kids.
RED HOOK
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This waterfront district, a former shipping centre, was once one of the more rough-and-
tumble in the city, but now holds artists' galleries, unique restaurants, converted warehouses
and, to some folks' chagrin, twin retail giants in IKEA and Fairway. Cut off from the sub-
way system, Red Hook can be reached by water taxi or bus, a worthwhile venture to hit the
Red Hook Ball Fields on summer weekends, where you can sample Latin American street
food and watch soccer, or to take in fabulous views of the Statue of Liberty and lower Man-
hattan from the piers, while snacking on a Key Lime Pie from Steve's Authentic Key Lime
Pies (204 Van Dyke St).