Happy Wanderers — Tuesday, May 21: Historic DownTown Brooklyn

The Wanderers will step-off this Tuesday Morning for DownTown Brooklyn. We’ll take the 8:36 AM train from Darien (8:39 from Norton Heights) to Grand Central.

At the Terminal, we shall gather at the Upper Level Information Booth, and then take the IRT Subway for Brooklyn.

This Wandering will cover a series of historic locations dating from when Brooklyn started as a village that grew up around the ferry slip connecting Long Island to Manhattan, to its becoming a City in the 19th Century, and then a part of New York City at the beginning of the 20th Century. We will view many of the historic places and pass through several of the neighborhoods that make up this compact district of Downtown Brooklyn. We will stop for a good lunch and also see some of Brooklyn’s new developments, including the Metro-Tech Center and the Barclays Center.

And then we’ll return by Subway to Grand Central and home.

Remember to bring your Metro Card for the Subways, or buy one from the machine at the train station, when you get your train tickets.