Intriguing Environs in Brooklyn

Discover 15 intriguing environs in Brooklyn.

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Brooklyn Battery Tunnel

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Plymouth Street in Vinegar Hill

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Vinegar Hill

Walk into the 19th century without leaving Brooklyn.

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Red Hook Ball Fields Food Vendors

This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.

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Site of Joe Gallo's 1950s Headquarters

The site where Joe Gallo kept his guns, pet lion, and launched an all out mob war in 1960s Brooklyn.

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The Red Hook Community Justice Center

An experimental, community court opened in 2000 takes a new approach to youth offenders in south Brooklyn.

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Red Hook Play Center

Red Hook's massive public pool, built by Robert Moses.

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Red Hook Houses

One of the largest public housing complexes in New York once visited by Eleanor Roosevelt.

Underneath the entrance to the nature walk is a small separate garden (Michelle Enemark CC Attribution Share Alike)

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Newtown Creek Nature Walk

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A boat being serviced using a dry dock. (amberjol/Flickr)

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The Brooklyn Navy Yard

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Permanently Closed

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The First Home in Greenpoint

Where Greenpoint's first European settler—and troublemaker—made his home.

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Transmitter Park

Once a ferry dock, radio transmitter, and now a new Greenpoint park.

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Manhattan Avenue Street End Park

Once a dumping spot, now a park with a kayak launch.

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Bushwick Inlet

Once a flowing stream and where the USS Monitor, the world's first ironclad, was built and launched.

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North Brooklyn Boat Club

A group dedicated to promoting boating, kayaking and environmental education programs.

Boardwalk Empire set

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Boardwalk Empire Set

HBO series' stage tucked away in a Greenpoint lot is the largest theatrical set of its kind in the United States.

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