Brooklyn 101: Brooklyn Introductory Tour

Brooklyn starts at the waterfront, so we typically start in DUMBO (and see more than what casual visitors notice).

We then walk up to Brooklyn Heights (the city's first landmark district) & the Promenade, and see the edge of Downtown Brooklyn: Civic Center, generations of towers, key crossroads, and the site of Brooklyn's one-time City Hall, now Borough Hall.

We then subway to Park Slope/Prospect Heights, seeing the Brooklyn Museum and the Central Library before reaching Grand Army Plaza, dipping into Prospect Park and traversing key blocks of row-house Park Slope.

We can end there, but an extended version (Brooklyn 202), adds a walk past the Barclays Center arena, a look around the arts district of Fort Greene, and even the mansions of Clinton Hill.

For a less aggressive, and shorter, 2.5-hour version of Brooklyn 101, we can cut out the subway ride to Park Slope/Prospect Park and keep walking below Brooklyn Heights to the adjacent neighborhood of Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill, maybe even further south to Carroll Gardens.