Tour South Brooklyn by ferry, with pit stops for lobster rolls and beer

Just one of the perks of taking the South Brooklyn ferry: views like these of the NYC skyline. Photo: Anne Szustek
To anyone in the greater Park Slope-Sunset Park-Bay Ridge metropole, a mention of the R train is an instant ice-breaker. Nary a subterranean morning commute passes through the caverns below Fourth Avenue without a screech ending in the dulcet canard “there is train traffic ahead of us.” It’s the wheezing piece of aging transit infrastructure that binds.
Fortunately