Fulton Park

Week 47

Most Likely to Succeed: Women Musicians and Their High Schools

Our final music-centric walk visits the high schools of Brooklyn's most famous female musicians. From Lena Horne to Barbra Streisand, Carole King to Lil' Kim, we see the institutions that made them - and sometimes made them leave.

Neighborhoods Liberty Park, Cypress Hills, Brownsville, Canarsie, Flatlands, Madison, Homecrest, Gravesend, Midwood, Kensington, Prospect Park South, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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Week 46

In Pursuit of Freedom

In 1790, 61% of all white Households in Kings County owned slaves, representing 30% of the borough's total population. This was enough to earn it the ignominious distinction of "the highest proportion of slaveholders and slaves in the North." Our walk this week covers the grounds of Canarsie and the Flatlands where many of these slaves resided, along with the courageous and vibrant abolitionist history of Brooklyn Heights, Williamsburg and Weeksville. We'll also step into Manhattan to visit the African Burial Ground National Monument near City Hall.

Neighborhoods Bedford Stuyvesant, Weeksville, Brownsville, Remsen Village, East Flatbush, Flatlands, Midwood, Mapleton, Bensonhurst, Kensington, Windsor Terrace, South Slope, Gowanus, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Dumbo, Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn Navy Yard, South Williamsburg, Bushwick

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