36th Street (D, N, R)
Welcome to a slowly gentrifying, slightly rugged, often-overlooked residential part of Brooklyn that’s just above Sunset Park.
The station entrance.
Hear me out: The big draw of this station is the access it provides to the Green-Wood Cemetery. This cemetery is huge, almost as big as Prospect Park. Poke around on Google Maps and you’ll see a bunch of famous New Yorkers have been buried here, and many of them have mausoleums bigger than most of my friends’ apartments.
Big graves, small graves, all together.
The cemetery, sprawling as it is, only has four entrances. This subway station takes you right to one of them, on 4th Avenue and 35th Street. Use it to access peaceful trails with grand funeral architecture.
A nice stroll through mausoleum town.
Not me chortling over “Gravesend Pizza” right outside, you know, all the graves…
If grave-peeping just isn’t your thing, fear not, this station gives you access to something else that might capture your fancy: Industry City. Basically, Industry City is like Brooklyn’s version of Chelsea Market. Some of the warehouse-type buildings in the vicinity have also been known to be co-opted for raves, like City of Gods.
And, if you choose to walk towards Industry City from the station, you’ll weave through a bit of Chinese-centric commerce. The area in general seems to have a richly multiethnic vibe.
Inside Industry City, which really does feel like Chelsea Market, in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.
A neighborhood mural.
What did I miss? Scroll past the map and let me know in the comments.
