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Greenpoint is Brooklyn’s northernmost neighborhood. While once a manufacturing center, today it is known for its nightlife, vintage stores, and historic buildings.

At the uppermost edge of Brooklyn, you'll find the quaint neighborhood of Greenpoint, where quiet streets are dotted with restaurants, bars, thrift shops and coffee shops. Explore this hip, yet relaxed neighborhood to discover hidden gems and well-established watering holes. Here's our roundup of a full day of activities to see what Greenpoint is all about. 

When you're new to NYC, you might want to head straight to the famous museums of Manhattan. But Brooklyn is filled with a rich history that's worth exploring too. This borough is often overlooked by tourists, but it doesn't have to be that way. Here are our top 3 Brooklyn museums to visit this winter.

We have a million things to say about Ange Noir Cafe — all of them good, all of them with gooey eyes. Looking for a place to chill out? Perfect. Need to sit down and get some work done? You’ve got it. Ange Noir is the "room of requirement" of Brooklyn cafes (and the best part is that not everybody knows about it yet).

Boerum Hill is like the movie-set version of Brooklyn. Walking around, you’ll be struck by the gorgeous red brick, historic brownstones and leafy streets. Similar to its sister neighborhoods Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, it’s almost as though the entire neighborhood is slowly exhaling: the area is a quiet, picturesque retreat from the bustle of Manhattan, without being boring.

Brooklyn is known for its vegan eateries. Just Googling “vegan cafes” pulls up a wide selection of red pins all across the borough, but how do you know which ones are the best? Or which vegan cheese won’t stick to the roof of your mouth? Don’t worry, we’ve picked our top five cafes — all tried and tested — to make the process easier.  

Are you having a slow week? Downtown Brooklyn is just what the doctor ordered. This cultural hub contains an incomparable concentration of the best life has to offer. From low to high priced, these are some of our favorite things about Downtown Brooklyn:

Flatbush is a community-centred neighborhood with plenty of green space, located to the south of Prospect Park . The neighborhood is known for being a melting pot of West Indian, Russian, Pakistani and other communities and it includes the area from Parkside Avenue on the north to Avenue H on the south, with Coney Island and New York avenues on the west and east, placing it right in the middle of Brooklyn. So here are our top reasons why Flatbush is a great place to live.

If you like fresh coffee, you’re going to love Devocion: It's one coffee shop that really stays true to its mission of delivering carefully sourced coffee beans to its patrons.

Little Skips is something of a Bushwick legend. Since its opening nine years ago, it’s made a name for itself as one of the original and still the best community-focused cafes in Brooklyn, with a dedication to top coffee, co-working and local events. Located on the corner of Myrtle and Willoughby, in between the Central Avenue M stop and the Myrtle M, J and Z stops, this cafe is a little slice of tranquility on your doorstep.

Walking around East Williamsburg feels like traversing the light side of the moon… but with more kombucha. This neighborhood has “industrial chic” down to a T and, with a commute into Manhattan of less than 30 minutes, it’s easy to see why it’s at the top of many Brooklynites’ lists of desired places to live and why our East Williamsburg House is one of our most popular houses.

Renting in New York just got easier, thanks to a new 30-person house opened by Outpost Club, Brooklyn’s largest and most flexible coliving company and a leader in building strong, dynamic communities of people with shared passions and values -- all while bringing together convenience and quality in New York City’s competitive housing market.

Bedford-Stuyvesant , known as Bed-Stuy to New Yorkers, is a unique mix of old and new, south of Bushwick and Williamsburg and accessible on the A, C, J and G trains. It’s also home to our Bed-Stuy House and just a short walk from our Bushwick , East Bushwick and South Williamsburg houses . Read on for our top reasons to live in Bed-Stuy.  

It’s that time of year again: Pi Day is upon us. But with so many bakeries to choose from and a limit to how many slices you can physically fit in your stomach, how do you decide which bakeries to try? Here are our top picks.

There’s still plenty to take advantage of before the colorful leaves give way to gray slush -- here are seven suggestions to make the most of the rest of autumn in Brooklyn.

Father Knows Best's location in Bushwick