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The area is a growing hub for education. In 2017, New York University announced that it would invest over $500 million to renovate and expand the NYU Tandon School of Engineering and its surrounding Downtown Brooklyn-based campus. [3] Downtown Brooklyn is part of Brooklyn Community District 2 and its primary ZIP Codes are 11201 and 11217. [1]
Downtown Brooklyn was founded by the poets Barbara Henning, Rudy Baron and Wayne Berninger. [1]The first annual issue appeared in 1992. [1]The magazine was published annually and was edited by faculty and students in the English Department at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University.
Neighborhoods that were once considered dangerous are now much safer. Violent crime in the city has dropped by three quarters in the twelve years ending in 2005 with the murder rate at its lowest then level since 1963 with 539 murders that year, for a murder rate of 6.58 per 100,000 people, compared to 2,245 murders in 1990. [202]
The Brooklyn Detention Center was designated as one of the jails that would be used to replace Rikers. [3] In August 2018, the city released a Draft Scope of Work outlining their plan for the new jail, which would tear down the existing 162,000 sq ft. facility and replace it with a building eight times as large (1.4 million sq ft.) and up to 40 ...
Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The neighborhood is bounded by Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the north, Flatbush Avenue Extension and Downtown Brooklyn to the west, Atlantic Avenue and Prospect Heights to the south, and Vanderbilt Avenue and Clinton Hill to the east.
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 ...
Asheville downtown safety has been the focus of public officials and police for months, but an investigation shows worse problems outside downtown.
After Brooklyn was incorporated as a city in 1834, [28] [29] the Commissioners Plan of 1839 was devised, a street plan that extended to South Brooklyn. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Park Slope was originally located in the northern section of the Eighth Ward, which at the time was the city's least populous ward .