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30-45 minutes to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge

Barclays Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The arena is home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and is also one of the home arenas for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.

The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

As a key business and education center in Downtown Brooklyn, MetroTech Center is home to major companies and organizations like JPMorgan Chase, National Grid, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Slate Media, Brooklyn Nets, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Tough Mudder. MetroTech Commons, the 3.5-acre privately-owned public space at the heart of the MetroTech complex, hosts events including concerts, fitness classes, tournaments, and holiday celebrations.

The New York University Tandon School of Engineering is the engineering and applied science school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United States

Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York. The school originated in 1887 with programs primarily in engineering, architecture, and fine arts.

LIU Brooklyn is a private university in Brooklyn, New York City. It is the original unit and first of two main campuses of the private Long Island University system.

Coney Island is a residential Brooklyn neighborhood that morphs into a relaxation and entertainment destination each summer. Locals and tourists crowd its beach, the Wonder Wheel and Luna Park, an amusement park featuring the famed Cyclone roller coaster. Street performers, the Circus Sideshow and the Mermaid Parade in June lend an eccentric vibe. Nathan's Famous is known for its July 4th hot-dog eating contest