Destinations · New York
Downtown Brooklyn
NY · 40.6939, -73.9817
Palisades Scenic Byway, Bronx River Parkway and Merritt Parkway are signed byways within 30 miles of Downtown Brooklyn, New York.
Understand
Downtown Brooklyn, which is the central shopping and business area, anchored by Fulton St. west of Flatbush Avenue, looks similar to the downtown of almost any other major American city, with department stores, clothing and electronic shops, a Borough Hall, three universities, a major railroad station, the Brooklyn Academy of Music concert hall, the Barclays Center sports arena, many office buildings, and municipal, state and federal buildings and courthouses. Many subway and bus lines go to or through Downtown Brooklyn.
The same roads run past New York City, where they are ranked and described in full.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Downtown Brooklyn are growing. What is within reach is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Palisades Scenic Byway · 11 mi · national
- Bronx River Parkway · 11 mi
- Merritt Parkway · 29 mi · national
Named places
- Arbor Place · 0 mi
- Pageant · 0 mi
- Abolitionist Place · 0 mi
- Brooklyn Commons · 0 mi
- McLaughlin Park World War I Memorial · 0 mi
- Balanced Cylinders · 0 mi
- Revolutionary Garden · 0 mi
- McLaughlin Park · 0 mi
A day out of Downtown Brooklyn, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 2 mi
- Downstate New York · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 2 mi
- Manhattan/East Village · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 2 mi