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Brooklyn NY Tourist Attractions
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Brooklyn NY Tourist Attractions
Tourist attractions in Brooklyn NY - Theme Parks, Tours, Museums, National Parks, Historic Sites & More!
Below is a list of attractions in Brooklyn NY to help you plan a Brooklyn NY Vacation! Find detailed information on the Brooklyn NY tourist attraction entries by clicking on their links. Narrow your search by selecting from a specific Brooklyn NY attraction category on the left hand menu.
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Explore All Of New York's Regions
You can find New York tourist attractions and activities in all of New York's regions: Albany, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Finger Lakes, Ithaca, Jamaica, Lake George, Lake Placid, New York City, Niagara Falls, Rochester, Syracuse and Other.
Featured New York Tourist Attractions and Activities
Please visit our New York featured listings - Bill Cosby at Rochester Auditorium, Brian Regan at Tarrytown Music Hall, Brian Regan at Stanley Performing Arts Ctr, Hairspray at Whitman Hall, Monster Jam at Nassau Coliseum and New York City Explorer Pass.
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Foods of New York Tours
Food Tasting and Cultural Tours
Category: Manhattan Tour near Brooklyn, New York
Description of this Brooklyn area Attraction: Discover the REAL New York!
Foods of New York, Inc. offers unique food tasting and cultural walking tours through New York City's most delicious and historic neighborhoods. We provide a non-touristy experience so you feel like a native New Yorker.
Each tour includes classic food tastings from one-of-a-kind specialty food shops and ethnic eateries as well as an off-the-beaten-path glimpse of "Life in New York City"— the history, culture, architecture, entertainment offerings, and neighborhood restaurants.
Planning to take a tour during your stay in New York?
We recommend taking any of our 4 tours at the beginning of your stay so you can return to these wonderful neighborhoods and take advantage of the restaurants, ethnic eateries, specialty food shops, and cultural venues.
Check out our NEW Culinary Experience - The Sushi and Japanese Tapas tasting event, a sit down guided feast.
We are very proud to announce our newest walking tour, Explore Chinatown, a guided adventure through NYC's famous chinatown. Taste a variety of unique local flavors like delicious Dim Sum, Peking Duck, and more.
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Jewish Hassidic Brooklyn Walking Tour
A cultural experience of a lifetime.
Category: Brooklyn Culture in New York
Description of this Brooklyn Attraction: A fascinating and captivating introduction with a friendly Chassidic Host.
This will be the key to your experience as you are personally escorted on you tour of the community with an open and approachable Chassidic scholar who is experienced at answering any and all questions about Jewish tradition and philosophy. Please be open and frank, this is your opportunity to find out answers to questions that are not addressed in the Hollywood portrayals of Chassidic Life such as the movies; Yentel, The Chosen, or A Stranger Among Us.
Congregation Lubavitch, 770 Eastern Parkway
This is a wonderful opportunity to see a world famous Jewish landmark, the headquarters of the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement, with over 2000 centers throughout the world. Known the world over as "770," its address on Eastern Parkway, the Lubavitch World Headquarters has come to represent Jewish outreach, Jewish concern, and Jewish survival. The Rebbe's office is located here.
The name "Lubavitch" comes from the Lithuanian town where the movement flourished. In Russian, Lubavitch means "City of Love". It was so named because the inhabitants were exceptionally kind and compassionate. The Lubavitch movement, founded on the concept of love of the Torah, the Creator, and the Jewish people, began over 180 years ago in Russia by Rabbi Schneur Zalman. The movement has attracted millions, and today spans the globe in influence and moral education.
The Rebbe's Library
You will be among the privileged few allowed entrance into the hallowed exhibition of the Rebbes Library. Ancient manuscripts, priceless documents, holy books, and religious articles adorn this exhibit of memorabilia and collections of the Lubavitch Movement. You will see a Grandfather clock from the 1890's that calculates the month according to the moon and not the sun - the Jewish calendar is calculated by the moon and not the sun. There is a model of the second temple as it stood in Jerusalem and you can see in great detail the Temple and its structure. You will be fascinated by the proactive role the Rebbe has played in education throughout the world signified by many of the posters and pictures in foreign languages.
Jewish Scribal Arts
The Holy Torah is one of the most familiar symbols and objects in Jewish life. How are they made, written, and constructed? Let's find out! The only material that a Mezuzah can be written on is parchment. Nowadays, any kind of parchment is an unusual and unfamiliar sight. The parchment used for a Mezuzah is not ordinary parchment, but is the hide of a Kosher animal.
From the very first stages, the hide must be processed with the intention that it is for the sake of the mitzvah, or commandment. This means that the Sofer (scribe) must have in mind (and verbally express) that he is preparing the animal hide in order for a Torah scroll, Tefillin, or Mezuzah to be written on it.
The main ingredients of the special ink used by the Sofer are gall nuts, or the gallic acid derived from these nuts, gum Arabic, a resin substance, and copper vitriol, a bluish stone which gives the ink the blackness required. The gall nuts and resin are cooked in water for about an hour. Then the vitrol is added and the mixture is boiled until half remains. Many scribes have their own special recipe to make their custom ink.
The writing instrument used for the mezuzah must be a quill from a kosher bird - goose or turkey. The tip is carefully cut so that by turning the pen and varying the pressure, the Sofer can write thick as well as very thin l
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Lower East Side Tenement Museum National Historic Site
National Historic Site
Category: Manhattan National Park near Brooklyn, New York
Description of this Brooklyn area Attraction: Chartered in l988, the Tenement Museum’s mission is “to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of a variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a gateway to America”. The heart of the Tenement Museum is its tenement building that was home to an estimated 7,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 1935. Visitors tour the tenement’s cramped living spaces and learn about the lives of past residents and the history of the neighborhood. The Museum also offers various programs such as walking tours, plays, art exhibits, and readings that represent the immigrant experience, throughout the year. The Museum’s tenement building is an affiliated site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a National Historic Landmark. In November of 1998, President Clinton and the United States Congress declared the Tenement Museum a National Historic Area affiliated with the National Park Service.
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The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center
The Nations Largest and Finest Antiques Center.
Category: Manhattan Arts and Craft near Brooklyn, New York
Description of this Brooklyn area Attraction: Over 100 galleries offering period furniture, jewelry, silver, paintings, American, European, Asian, African, and other objects of art.
Convenient parking. Open to the public, designers and decorators.
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