Battle of Brooklyn, which raged between Fort Hamilton and the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge during the Revolution- ary War. Vintage cannons and cannon- balls still remain in the park at the intersection of 91st Street and 4th Avenue. More than 40 million cars per year


enter Brooklyn over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, a 1964 engineering marvel that contains as much steel as the Empire State Building. Once the longest suspension bridge in the Western Hemisphere, the bridge stands as the gateway to the Atlantic Ocean and is a great vantage point above a bay crowded with tankers and other ocean- going vessels. Rusting streetcars remain behind the


Fairway Market at Red Hook, directly across from the Statue of Liberty and not far from Brooklyn’s busy cruise ship terminal. Working trains – subway cars that surface on 152 miles of elevated tracks – give the borough even more personality. Nowhere is that personality more obvious than on the pizza tour. In addition to the pizza stops, the


walk on the Coney Island boardwalk, and the chance to talk close-up photos of the Manhattan skyline between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, the tour peruses Bay Ridge, the largest ethnic Irish enclave in New York, and meanders along Shore Road, where home values stretch far into seven figures.


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widely, so does the pizza. There are pies of every size, shape, and color and plenty of places to pursue the perfect slice. As “A Slice of Brooklyn” shows, pizza has come a long way since the first pizzeria opened in Naples in 1830. On Tony Muia’s tour, there’s never a dull moment and only a few quiet ones —when people are eating.


Former AP newsman Dan Schlossberg is travel editor of Sirius XM Radio’s Maggie Linton Show, host of the new Travel Itch Radio podcast, and author of 35 baseball books, including this year’s “Designated Hebrew: the Ron Blomberg Story”.


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