Travel Reference
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Brooklyn Heights Historic
District
Overlooking the East River and
lower Manhattan skyline, the
Brooklyn Heights Historic District
is an enclave of old-world charm.
Along its quaint streets are pre-
served, Federal, wooden and brick
townhouses of the 1820s and
even grander Greek Revival homes
of the following decades.
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Court
Street to Furman Street, between
Fulton & State sts
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Subway Clark St
Train to Queens
This subway route, dubbed the
International Express, serves
New York's most varied ethnic
communities. Take 61st Street,
Woodside for Irish pubs,
46th Street for the Middle
East, 69th Street for the
Philippines. A $1 guide is
available from Queens Council
on the Arts, 79-01 Park Lane
South, Woodhaven, NY 11421.
West to 8th Avenue, between 14th St &
St. John's Pl, Brooklyn
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Subway 7th Av
Prospect Park
Frederic Olmsted and Calvert
Vaux considered this park,
opened in 1867, to be their
masterpiece. The 90-acre Long
Meadow is the longest unbroken
green space in the city. The pools
and weeping willows of the
Vale of Cashmere are
particularly fine, along
with Vaux's Oriental
Pavilion and Concert
Grove.
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Between
Eastern Parkway & Park-
side Avenue, Brooklyn
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Subway Grand Army Plaza
Flushing Meadow-
Corona Park
The site of two World
Fairs, this is now a
spacious park with pic-
nic areas, fields for cricket
and soccer, paths for bik-
ers and skaters, boating
lakes, and many other
attractions. The New
York Mets' Shea Stadium,
the U.S. Tennis Center, the
New York Hall of Science,
and the Queens Museum of
Art are also here. The Unisphere,
the symbol of the 1964 World
Fair, still stands.
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Queens
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Subway
111th St, Willets Pt-Shea Stadium
Carousel horse,
Prospect Park
Park Slope Historic District
These blocks on the western
edge of Prospect Park became
desirable places to live after the
opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in
1883. The Victorian brownstones
from the late 19th and early 20th
centuries are outstanding U.S.
Romanesque Revival and Queen
Anne residences.
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Prospect Park
Yankee Stadium
A sports shrine, completed
in 1923 and known as “The House
that Ruth Built” for the legions of
fans who came to see superhero
Babe Ruth. Other legendary
Left
World's Fair Unisphere, Flushing Meadow-Corona Park
Right
Yankee Stadium
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