36 Hours in Brooklyn

'South of Williamsburg, you can find an older Brooklyn: boisterous and beautiful, worldly with working class roots.

Recent decades have brought big, fraught, much-discussed changes to Brooklyn. But south of Williamsburg, the borough’s character — both boisterous and architecturally beautiful, worldly with working-class roots — remains. The waterfront no longer teems with longshoremen and heavy industry, but century-old river barges are enjoying second acts as unconventional arts venues, and a commercial pier has been reclaimed as a public park that draws families from across the borough. For better or worse, several high-profile projects like the former Brooklyn Navy Yard, an industrial park for high-end food manufacturers and movie studios, and Barclays Center, home to music and sporting events, have transformed areas of central Brooklyn. But many neighborhoods cater almost entirely to their local communities, from the Russian enclave of Brighton Beach to the Jewish Orthodox populations of Midwood, from Caribbean Flatbush to Sunset Park’s Chinatown.'>>>

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