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The neighborhood underwent a major demographic change in the 1950s that saw an influx of African-American residents. Since the late 20th century, Brownsville has consistently held one of the highest poverty and crime rates of any neighborhood in New York City. Brownsville is part of Brooklyn Community District 16, and its primary ZIP Code is ...
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.
Brooklyn Community Board 16 is a New York City community board that encompasses the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brownsville and Ocean Hill. [3] It is delimited by East 98th street, East New York Avenue, Ralph Avenue, Atlantic Avenue and Saratoga Avenue on the west, Broadway on the north, Van Sinderen Avenue on the east, as well as by the Long Island Rail Road on the south.
Name of the neighborhood Limits south to north and east to west Upper Manhattan: Above 96th Street Marble Hill MN01 [a]: The neighborhood is located across the Harlem River from Manhattan Island and has been connected to The Bronx and the rest of the North American mainland since 1914, when the former course of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in. [2]
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.
Ocean Hill is a subsection of Bedford–Stuyvesant in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 16 and was founded in 1890. [1] The ZIP code for the neighborhood is 11233.
East Flatbush is a residential neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.East Flatbush is bounded by Crown Heights and Empire Boulevard to the north; Brownsville and East 98th Street to the east; Flatlands, Canarsie and the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Branch to the south; and the neighborhood of Flatbush and New York Avenue to the west.
The New York Times Building; Palace Theatre "Numbered" Times Square buildings. One Times Square – The former New York Times Tower (1904) [167] 2 Times Square – Renaissance Hotel Times Square (1992) 3 Times Square – Thomson Reuters Building (1998–2001) [168] 4 Times Square – Condé Nast Building (1996–1999) [169]