Looking for things to do in New York Brooklyn? Our 3-hour self-guided walking tour takes you through this neighborhood. Learn about its history and discover all of the attractions. Solve challenges at each step along your way, to find your next destination and have fun. You will walk from the Brooklyn Museum to Grand Army Plaza, and visit several churches and Prospect Park. As you discover the neighborhood, you’ll pass by various parks, museums, and monuments. The Brooklyn Tourist Scavenger Hunt is a 5.2 km / 3.2 mi self-guided walking tour with challenges along the way. It should take you 3 hours to complete.

Your walk takes you through some of Fort Greene and Clinton Hill’s most storied ground: a landmark park with deep ties to Black protest and celebration, a historic church whose walls held secrets of the Underground Railroad, residential blocks where towering figures of American culture once lived and created, independent cultural spaces that continue the tradition today, and Brooklyn’s preeminent performing arts institution and its relationship to Black artists across generations. The Fort Greene and Clinton Hill neighborhoods have quietly shaped American history, literature, film, and activism . From the abolitionists who turned local churches into way stations on the road to freedom, to the iconic artists and filmmakers who made these blocks their creative home, to the community builders and activists whose work continues today—this is a tour that honors the full, unfiltered arc of Black Brooklyn.