New York City Brooklyn

Williamsburg

For decades, a large part of Williamsburg was an industrial wasteland, home of Domino's Sugar Factory, abandoned riverside warehouses, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. A vanguard of artists began to make ...more

Park Slope

Park Slope's iconic brownstones and leafy streets have attracted an increasingly privileged community over the decades. Half a century ago, a diverse mix of classes rubbed shoulders in this parkside neighborhood ...more

New York City Brooklyn Heights Brooklyn

Brooklyn's stateliest neighborhood is also its most scenic. Each street is gorgeous in its own way, with much of the architecture dating back to the early- to mid-19th century. The quiet, pristine atmosphere ...more

Dumbo

In one of New York's most dramatic (if, by now, familiar) neighborhood evolutions, this tiny riverside area beneath the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges went from a mostly abandoned industrial wasteland ...more

Fort Greene

Yet more brownstones line the blocks of Fort Greene, once home to the Victorian upper class (and, most famously, Walt Whitman. Today the scene is far more diverse, with an integrated community ...more

South Brooklyn

Once generically called South Brooklyn, now obnoxiously nicknamed BoCoCa, the conglomeration of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Carroll Gardens is a mostly residential area filled with pleasant streets and ...more

Red Hook

Red Hook lies south and west of the teeming, six-lane Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. It's still dominated by the piers that once supported a thriving community of longshoremen. A mix of housing projects, ...more

Bedford-stuyvesant

After Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant is New York's largest and most famous African-American community. Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Jay-Z, the Notorious B.I.G., and other luminaries were all raised in this expansive ...more

Flatbush

Once a prosperous suburb, then a white working-class area populated mostly by Jews, Irish, and Italians, Flatbush has only recently become home to New York's largest community of West Indian and African ...more

New York City Sunset Park And Green-wood Cemetery Brooklyn

Once home to New York's largest Scandinavian community, diverse Sunset Park, bordered by 36th St., Ninth Ave., 65th St., and the Upper Bay, is today witnessing the rapid growth of a Chinatown that may ...more

Bensonhurst And Borough Park

With an Italian-speaking population that still numbered over 20,000 in 2000, Bensonhurst,bordered by 60th St., MacDonald St., 86th St., and 13th Ave., remains a proud Italian and Italian-American community ...more

Bay Ridge

Immortalized in the film Saturday Night Fever, Bay Ridge is a residential, middle-class neighborhood tucked away in Brooklyn's southwestern corner and enclosed by the Gowanus Expressway and the Belt Pkwy ...more

Coney Island And Brighton Beach

Ever since it first began attracting New York's lower classes in the late 19th century, Coney Island has been a national landmark. Though its early 20th-century days as a massive playground that drew all ...more