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South Brooklyn – takes its name from the geographical position of the original town of Brooklyn, which today includes the neighborhoods listed above under the heading "northwestern Brooklyn." It is not located in the southern part of the modern borough. Boerum Hill; Carroll Gardens. Columbia Street Waterfront District; Cobble Hill; Gowanus ...
Poughkeepsie, Middletown, Newburgh, West Point, Goshen and southeastern New York; component of 845/329 overlay 914: 1947 Westchester County: 917: 1992 New York City: overlays with 212, 332, 347, 646, 718, and 929 929: 2011 New York City outside of Manhattan; component of 347/718/929 and 917 overlays 934: 2016 Suffolk County; component of 631/ ...
Location of Brooklyn (red) within New York City (remainder yellow) USGS map of Brooklyn (2019) Brooklyn is 97 square miles (250 km 2 ) in area, of which 71 square miles (180 km 2 ) is land (73%), and 26 square miles (67 km 2 ) is water (27%); the borough is the second-largest by land area among the New York City's boroughs.
This grid starts with 1st Street in Park Slope south of Garfield Place and ends with 101st Street just north of Shore Road and the Belt Parkway in Bay Ridge. A separate grid of "West" and "East" streets (West 1st through West 37th Streets, and East 1st through East 108th Streets) lies on both sides of Dahill Road and run approximately north ...
Area code 212 is one of the original North American area codes assigned by AT&T in 1947, originally serving all five boroughs of New York City.Area codes were assigned based on the volume of traffic and the speed of dialing the code on a rotary electromechanical dial phone, so that the higher the volume of traffic, the less time it took to dial the area code.
Marble Hill, a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan, is physically located on the U.S. mainland, adjacent to the Bronx. Despite being legally a part of the borough of Manhattan, [20] per the Greater New York Charter of 1897, the neighborhood of Marble Hill is excluded from the Manhattan numbering plan areas 212, 646, and 332, instead using the 718, 347, and 929 area codes. [20]
Brooklyn Directory and Yearly Advertiser, for 1840-1. Stationers' Hall Works Thomas Leslie & John W. Leslie, & William F. Chichester (compiler) Internet Archive (BPL microfiche scan) 1841-1842 Brooklyn Alphabetical and Street Directory and Yearly Advertiser, for 1841-2. Thomas Leslie & John W. Leslie (publisher) Thomas Leslie & John W. Leslie
Avenue U is a commercial street located in Brooklyn, New York City.This avenue is a main thoroughfare throughout its length. Avenue U begins at Stillwell Avenue in Gravesend and ends at Bergen Avenue in Bergen Beach, while serving the other Brooklyn neighborhoods of Gravesend, Homecrest, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, and Mill Basin along its route.