One day in Brooklyn, New York
A day through Brooklyn’s best-known sights that lie close together: Lesbian Herstory Archives, Prospect Park, Prospect Park Zoo, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Museum and Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch. 6 stops, about 1.7 mi between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.
The route
- Lesbian Herstory ArchivesMuseum · On the map
- Prospect ParkGarden · 0.5 mi on from Lesbian Herstory Archives · On the map
- Prospect Park ZooZoo or aquarium · 0.4 mi on from Prospect Park · On the map
- Brooklyn Botanic GardenGarden · 0.2 mi on from Prospect Park Zoo · On the map
- Brooklyn MuseumMuseum · 0.2 mi on from Brooklyn Botanic Garden · On the map
- Soldiers' and Sailors' ArchMonument · 0.4 mi on from Brooklyn Museum · On the map
6 stops, about 1.7 mi between them in straight lines.
More for Brooklyn
- Things to do in Brooklyn, New York · 25 places to see, led by Brooklyn Museum and Prospect Park
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Photo credits
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: Jim.henderson, CC0
- Prospect Park: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Prospect Park Zoo: Garry R. Osgood, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden: Stavenn, CC BY 2.5
- Brooklyn Museum: Jim.henderson, Public domain
- Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch: Padraic Ryan - User: (WT-shared) Padraic at wts wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0
Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.
Good to know
- Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
- The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
- Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.
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