Fifty years ago, locals protested the plan to build the suspension bridge when 7,000 residents had to be displaced to make room for it. The Verrazano, which rises 200 feet above New York Bay and connects Brooklyn with Staten Island, is the neighborhood’s most iconic-though not always beloved-landmark. As in other borough nabes (think Carroll Gardens), you’ll find a mix of old-timers, young third- and fourth-generation families, and newcomers. Located between two highways (the Belt Parkway to the west and the Gowanus Expressway to the east), the area stretches from 65th Street to the base of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at Shore Road and 101st Street. Today, families take a different mode of transportation-the R train, to the end of the line-to experience the once-Scandinavian, now diverse neighborhood where Saturday Night Fever was filmed. Some 150 years ago, wealthy Manhattanites traveled by boat to their extravagant summer homes along Brooklyn’s “gold coast,” Bay Ridge.
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