Welcome to Brooklyn, NYSo, why Brooklyn? Fuhgeddaboudit! Ask any Brooklynite and you’ll have a hard time convincing them that Brooklyn isn’t the best place on earth to live. Where else can you shop ‘til you drop in chic Brooklyn Heights, take a walk through Prospect Park, check out the new exhibits at the Brooklyn Museum, grab a bite to eat at Roll ‘n Roaster, and relax on the beaches at Coney Island? Brooklyn’s got it all! What about schools? As a part of the New York City public school system, and also with plenty of private schools, colleges and universities, there are plenty of options. What about history? Brooklyn’s rich in culture and history, dating all the way back to 1683 – when it was just a little Dutch village called “Breukelen.” Home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, Junior’s Cheesecake, the Cyclone rollercoaster, Walt Whitman, Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy, the list goes on and on… From family-oriented Bergen Beach to the hipster-haven of Williamsburg – Brooklyn is a great place to live. So, it’s no wonder more than 2 million people call Brooklyn home! Original, inventive, hard-working; that’s Brooklyn, and that’s Fillmore. We know Brooklyn. | More Local Area InformationDecades ago, Brooklyn, New York was a city that looked with nostalgia to the glory days of Coney Island, the Victorian Gold Coast, and the Brookly... Read moreThe pristine municipal Dyker Beach Golf Course, 242-acre Dyker Beach Park on Gravesend Bay, seasonal events at the 8.5 acre McKinley Park, and, o... Read moreFor more than 100 years, Coney Island has captured the imagination of people worldwide who are familiar with its history as a major resort tha... Read moreThe legacy of industrialist and philanthropist Charles Pratt defines Clinton Hill today. The Pratt Institute was founded in 1887 as an art an... Read moreSurrounded by the ocean on three sides and protected from outsiders by two secured entrances, Sea Gate is an exclusive community featuring privat... Read moreFor years a sleepy neighborhood sandwiched between Park Slope, Cobble Hill, and downtown Brooklyn, Boerum Hill now stands at the epicenter o... Read moreMidwood is noted for having one of the largest number of single-family, detached homes in Brooklyn as well as 18,000 shade trees. Its graciou... Read moreEast New York was primarily a rural community in the 19th Century but flirted with industrial development in 1835 when a prosperous merchant name... Read moreThe cool ocean breezes and location Sheepshead Bay an ideal destination for tourists. Hotels began arriving in the early 1800s, and tourists als... Read moreGrand Army Plaza, which Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed in the style of dramatic European plazas like the Parisian Etoile where th... Read moreThe rise of Greenpoint mirrors the rise of industrialization in the United States. Beginning in the mid-19th Century firms based in Greenpoin... Read moreOld timers in Windsor Terrace speak of the days when Irish Catholic families were so large that they filled entire pews at Holy Name Roman Catholi... Read moreFollowing the opening of the Brooklyn, Bath, and West End Railroad in 1885, real estate developer James Lynch bought land from the Benson family an... Read moreOnce a decaying warehouse and manufacturing district, the fortunes of DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) began to change when artist... Read moreAs Bob Dylan wrote, “the times they are a-changin', ” and no where is that phrase more evident in Brooklyn than in the neighborhood o... Read moreBergen Beach was originally developed in the 1890s as a summer resort community. An amusement park, boardwalk and Vaudeville shows provided visitor... Read moreAs in other sections of Brooklyn, Borough Park was farmland in the early 19th Century. A small development of cottages was built in 1887 and soo... Read moreWhile sitting on the sand at Brighton Beach in the summer, gazing out at the vast blue ocean interrupted only by the occasional sailboat o... Read moreConstruction on one-story, summer bungalows in Gerritsen Beach started in the 1920s when Irish-Americans began using the community as summer resort... Read moreThe neighborhood of Flatbush, framed by Prospect Park and Brooklyn College, is noted for its elegant one- and two-family Victorian homes and shad... Read moreCobble Hill was transformed from a rural area to a residential neighborhood beginning in 1836 after the South Ferry began operating to and fro... Read more | 
