"More than just a Bridge" a Brooklyn Travel Page by yooperprof

Brooklyn? Its own VT page, separate from New York City? What's up with that?

Well, Brooklyn was an independent city for most of its existence, and it has very much the feel of a place with its own identity. Don't forget the great cultural and historical institutions here as well: the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Pratt Institute, Coney Island, the Brooklyn Dodgers. . .

How many people know that Brooklyn is the most heavily populated of the five boroughs that make up NYC? About 900,000 more people live in Brooklyn than live on Manhattan. If Brooklyn were again an independent city, it would be the 3rd largest in the United States, with more people than the entire state of Utah.

The neighborhoods of Brooklyn are like separate villages, each with its own local identity: Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Crown Heights, Prospect Park, Williamsburg. . . I went to Williamsburg to visit my friends who share an apartment just off Bedford St. They said that they could get everything they needed within a five-block radius of their place.

I think of this as a "classic" Brooklyn photo. A busy but narrow commercial street - in this case Bedford Ave - with someone leaning out of a second floor window surveying the scene below. And a "Deli-Mart" corner store next to a Yuppie Italian restaurant.