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Central Brooklyn is the largest collection of black communities in both New York City and the United States. [1] These neighborhoods include: Bedford-Stuyvesant, which broadly includes smaller communities such as Ocean Hill; Stuyvesant Heights; Crown Heights, which includes smaller communities such as Weeksville
The modern neighborhoods bearing these names are located roughly in the center of each of these original towns. Certain portions of the original six towns were also independent municipalities for a time, before being reabsorbed. Following an 1894 referendum, the entire consolidated City of Brooklyn became a borough of New York City in 1898.
Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It is bounded by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; the cemeteries of Highland Park to the southeast; and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south and southwest.
Its primary ZIP Codes are 11205, 11206, 11216, 11221, 11233, and 11238. [1] Bedford–Stuyvesant is patrolled by the 79th and 81st Precincts of the New York City Police Department. [8] [9] Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 36th District.
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
The ZIP code for the neighborhood is 11233. Ocean Hill's boundaries start from Broadway and the neighborhood of Bushwick in the north, Ralph Avenue and the neighborhoods of Bedford–Stuyvesant proper and Crown Heights to the west, East New York Avenue and the neighborhood of Brownsville to the south, and Van Sinderen Avenue and the ...
Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York.It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at Bushwick Inlet Park and McCarren Park; on the southeast by the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg; on the north by Newtown Creek and the neighborhood of Long Island City in Queens; and on the west by the East River.
Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York, and on the south by Avenue P and Kings Highway.