You asked, we listened! We get tons of inqueries about the easiest hikes to do from NYC. Here's some of our favorite hikes in New York State: • Mt. Beacon in Beacon, NY: Hike to the ruins of a casino that once stood atop Mt. Beacon and save some extra time to ...
Bannerman Castle on Pollepel Island in spring. Photo: Erin Lindsey/Escape Brooklyn. Every day, thousands of passengers pass a giant castle in the middle of the Hudson River on the MetroNorth's Hudson Line. While most commuters pass it on the regular, you can always pick out the folks who haven't ...
No doubt about it: Denny and I are spoiled New Yorkers. We have a car. But for a long time–the first years of Escape Brooklyn, actually–we didn't. Instead, we somehow managed to launch a travel website without one, making the most public transportation like the MetroNorth, NJ Transit trains, and even Adirondack ...