Borough Park is one of the three neighborhoods in Brooklyn with significant Hasidic populations, along with Williamsburg and Crown Heights. Borough Park, which also has a large Modern Orthodox Jewish population, including immigrants from Israel and the ex-Soviet Union, is much larger.
While architecturally less interesting than Williamsburg, it has an impressive shopping district and a wide variety of stores (silver, Judaica) and restaurants. A visit to Borough Park includes a walk past the neighborhood's major synagogues (including that of the Bobover sect), which signal several layers of neighborhood change, stops in several important stores, and a walk past a new hotel catering to religious visitors.
Borough Park is not worth a long tour, but we have combined it with other tours in several ways. For example, we took a small group by subway to Williamsburg, walked around, then took a subway to Borough Park and walked around. We took a larger group to Williamsburg by van, then to Crown Heights, to Modern Orthodox Midwood for lunch (a great deli), then to Borough Park for some touring and shopping.
"We want to thank you for having put the cherry on the top of our sundae of a tour! We were able to cover Jewish life in the NY metropolitan area culturally, historically, religiously, and gastronomically."
--Rabbi Daniel & Carol Isaak, Portland, OR
If you want a longer tour of Crown Heights, the Lubavitcher community runs their own tour company: www.jewishtours.com. Note of course that our Lower East Side tour is also, in many ways, a Jewish tour