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These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn. The towns were, clockwise from the north: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the middle.
Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is Queens County, and Staten Island is Richmond County. All five boroughs of New York came into existence with the creation of modern New York City in 1898, when New York County ...
With a land area of 69.38 square miles (179.7 km 2) and a water area of 27.48 square miles (71.2 km 2), Kings County is the state of New York's fourth-smallest county by land area and third smallest by total area. [9] Brooklyn was founded by the Dutch in the 17th century and grew into a busy port city on New York Harbor by the 19th century.
The City of New York, petitioned by the residents of Vinegar Hill, declared the area a Historical District in the late 1990s. [ 10 ] In 2008, Sam Buffa and Jean Adamson opened Vinegar Hill House on 72 Hudson Avenue, [ 25 ] a former apartment turned 41-seat restaurant, [ 26 ] the first eatery to open on the block since a diner closed in the ...
Bensonhurst derives its name from Egbert Benson (1789–1866), whose children and grandchildren sold his lands to James D. Lynch, a New York real estate developer. Lynch bought the old farmlands from the Benson family in the mid-1880s, and by 1888, began selling private lots in an area dubbed as Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea, now Bath Beach . [ 9 ]
Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. [4] Brighton Beach is bounded by Coney Island proper at Ocean Parkway to the west, Manhattan Beach at Corbin Place to the east, Sheepshead Bay at the Belt Parkway to the ...
Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. [5] It is bounded by Prospect Park on the east and northeast, Park Slope at Prospect Park West, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Borough Park at McDonald Avenue on the northwest, west, and southwest, and Kensington at Caton Avenue on the south.
McDonald Avenue is a north-south street in Brooklyn, New York City. The avenue runs about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) between the intersection of 86th Street and Shell Road in Gravesend , and 20th Street and 10th Avenue in Windsor Terrace .