we have friends from australia coming into brooklyn for a day. our daughter lives in brooklyn and we know it fairly well. plan to; walk promonade; walk brooklyn bridge; coney island; brighton beach; williamsburg. any other ideas?

thanks

you may already be familiar with this link, but it is self walking tours of the areas you mention with some info about each that, if you don't know, might make the walk more interesting with some facts and stories.
http://tinyurl.com/yyzvn6

on the rec of someone on this board, we had a great meal recently at the restaurant Five Front, and subsequently recommended it to a friend who lives in the city who also enjoyed it there.

great site! wasn't familiar with it. thanks a lot.

Depending on when they arrive, I would go to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens and the Brooklyn Museum. The Museum is wonderful small Museum, I just visited it for the first time last week and would recommend it to anyone. I also really enjoyed the Transit Museum in Brooklyn too (but I'm a bit of a transit geek).

Brooklyn Academy of Music may have something of interest...

http://www.bam.org/

Hope this helps...
Debi

thought about the brooklyn museum but closed on tuesdays. don't miss the ron mueck exhibit! one of my favs. also he is an aussie, so we thought it would work out well. thanks for ideas.

I saw them setting up for that when I was there last week. Sadly I was two days shy of being able to see the whole thing, it looks fabulous. I really like Brooklyn, every time I've been there I've had a lovely time and have met very friendly people, it is probably my favorite part of nyc, and whenever I go there I think to myself 'ya know, I could live here' and I rarely have that thought while wandering around Manhattan.