As Brooklyn's profile as a hub of artisanal, hipster, Millennial culture has risen in recent years, so have the number of tour books touting their insider knowledge and trustworthy listicles of the boroughs. Trust many of these books blindly and you'll end up spending the majority of your time and money eating overpriced food in Brooklyn Heights and maybe Williamsburg before skirting across the borough to go to Coney Island with a suggested stop at Prospect Park. This is the Portlandia-ized Brooklyn, the Brooklyn of recent television and real estate brokers' wet dreams. In reality, all the juicy parts of Kings County can be found in the space between the tourist traps.
Untapped Cities' founder Michelle Young's new "Secret Brooklyn" actually does the borough justice. Instead of focusing on pricey cocktails and well-known sites, it focuses instead on BK's tiny Torahs, secret museums, morbid freaks and landmarked trees. This is a… Read More >
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