Rolling hills, attractive brick row homes and standard Italian restaurants identify Bay Ridge. This remote Brooklyn community provides spectacular views of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and New york city Harbor. Its waterfront esplanade, parks and arboretums offer ample opportunity for soaking in the scenery. Bay Ridge may feel like a little town on its quiet backstreet, however endeavor onto the main shopping opportunities and you'll experience all of the dynamic commerce of big-city life. Commuters are well-connected, too: The X27 and X37 reveal buses make the journey to and from Manhattan in as little as Thirty Minutes, and the R train shuttle bus locals to Union Square in 40 minutes.