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Bay Ridge is known for its Norwegian community but it also has small Irish, Italian, Arab and Greek communities. Bay Ridge is part of Brooklyn Community District 10, and its primary ZIP Codes are 11209 and 11220. [1] It is patrolled by the 68th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. [5]
In 1912 "a group of local doctors" bought and converted a mansion "on Ovington Avenue, between Third and Fourth" into what was named "Bay Ridge Sanitarium, which had 12 beds." In 1920 "a fireproof, one-story maternity ward was built."
The southwestern portion of Brooklyn shares numbered streets and avenues starting from 36th Street to 101st Street and from 1st Avenue to 25th Avenue, passing through the neighborhoods listed below: Bay Ridge. Fort Hamilton; Bensonhurst. Bath Beach; New Utrecht; Borough Park. Mapleton lies mostly in Borough Park but its southern reaches are ...
Senator Street Historic District is a national historic district in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It consists of 40 contributing residential buildings (including two garages) built between 1906 and 1912. They are all three story brownstone rowhouses in the Neo-Renaissance style. The houses feature high stoops and full sized ...
Bay Parkway 1 West Cut-off at 7th Avenue by the Gowanus Expressway. 69th Street/ Bay Ridge Avenue Shore Road Bay Parkway 1-2 Varies Two-way on two lanes from Shore Road to 6th Avenue, running eastbound, one-way on one lane from 6th Avenue to 7th Avenue where it is cut-off by the Gowanus Expressway. Resumes two-way configuration on the other ...
New York's 11th congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in New York City.The 11th district includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, including the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights, south western Gravesend, western Sheepshead Bay, and parts of southern Bensonhurst.
The Bay Ridge–95th Street station (originally 95th Street–Fort Hamilton) is the southern terminal station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Despite the name, the station is located in the neighborhood of Fort Hamilton (as its original name implied) at the intersection of 95th Street and Fourth Avenue in southwestern ...
On April 13, 1680, he sold a section of his land to Swaen Janse Van Lowaanen, whose farm on the water, north of what is now known as Bay Ridge Avenue, eventually became the park. [2] The land passed through several more hands before ending up with Henry C. Murphy, who in 1856 built a large mansion on the property, creating a personal estate.