Even though I have lived in Brooklyn for four months (during my study abroad), I have not yet visited much of its sights. As my friend whom I visited this time also lives in Brooklyn, I took the opportunity to catch up on tourist sights in this borough.

Prospect Park

Prospect Park is the equivalent of Central Park in Brooklyn. It is very popular with Brooklynites for walking, running, cycling, or just relaxing in the grass.

Greenwood Cemetery

The Greenwood Cemetery once was one of the most visited tourist attractions in New York State (along with Niagara Falls). Nowadays, this cemetery is much quieter, but still quite interesting with its pompous (and sometimes quite showy) graves, pillars, and mausoleums.

New York Transit Museum

Moreover, I visited the New York Transit Museum. There, I learned a bit about subway construction (e.g. the most common building technique, called "Cut & Cover", where the streets where excavated, the subway arches constructed, and finally the ditch was again filled with dirt), and could see some old subway cars (which do not look that different from the cars used nowadays, by the way).

Coney Island

Finally, I went to Coney Island, directly at the beach in the South of Brooklyn. There, an old (somewhat derelict) amusement park is still in operation. I went on a ride with the rollercoaster "The Cyclone", which was build completely out of wood in 1927.