St. John's 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

Read

Week 17

First Impressions - Upper+Some Lower Bay Brooklyn

We stay in Brooklyn this week to continue our survey walks of the area, dipping to the southeast to cover such neighborhoods as Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton and Gravesend. The trip up takes us through Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Brownsville, grazing Greenwood Cemetery and Prospect Park along the way.

Neighborhoods Stuyvesant Heights, Weeksville, Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Park Slope, Sunset Park, Bay Ridge, Fort Hamilton, Bath Beach, Gravesend, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Windsor Terrace, Prospect Park South, Prospects Lefferts Gardens, Wingate

Read