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The "Soul in the Hole" is a famous basketball court in Brownsville. The Hole is known for street basketball, [97] and the New York Daily News characterizes it as having the "toughest" streetball competition in Brooklyn. [98] It is located in the Brownsville Houses along Rockaway Avenue between Riverdale and Livonia Avenues. [99]
South 4th Street Kent Avenue Union Avenue 0.92 mile 1-2 Varies Cut-off by the Williamsburg Bridge. South 5th Street Dead-end Union Avenue 1.02 miles 1 East Cut-off by the Williamsburg Bridge. South 6th Street Dead-end Broadway/Bedford Avenue: 0.27 mile 1 West South 8th Street Kent Avenue Broadway 0.45 mile 1 Varies South 9th Street Kent Avenue
The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which coincides with Kings County, New York. The locations of National Register properties ...
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 ...
Prior to 2013, the district consisted primarily of middle-class white neighborhoods, including large Jewish, Italian, Irish, and Russian populations, in southern Brooklyn and south central Queens. Before redistricting, the Queens Tribune found that the district increasingly swung Republican following the September 11 attacks in 2001, when many ...
District 41 covers a series of predominantly Black neighborhoods in central and eastern Brooklyn, including parts of Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East Flatbush, Crown Heights, and Ocean Hill. [5] The district overlaps with Brooklyn Community Boards 3, 8, 9, 16, and 17, and with New York's 8th and 9th congressional districts.
Brooklyn (co-extensive with Kings County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous borough. Brooklyn is known for its cultural, social, and ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods, and a distinctive architectural heritage. Downtown Brooklyn is the largest central core neighborhood in the outer ...
[5] [6] [7] Brooklyn, at 37,339.9 inhabitants per square mile (14,417.0/km 2), is the second most densely populated county in the U.S. after Manhattan (New York County), as of 2022. [8] Had Brooklyn remained an independent city, it would now be the fourth most populous American city after the rest of New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. [7]