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The southwestern portion of Brooklyn shares numbered streets and avenues starting from 36th Street to 101st Street and from 1st Avenue to 25th Avenue, passing through the neighborhoods listed below: Bay Ridge. Fort Hamilton; Bensonhurst. Bath Beach; New Utrecht; Borough Park. Mapleton lies mostly in Borough Park but its southern reaches are ...
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It resumes at East 41st Street and Troy Avenue and continues as a one-way street going from west to east to Ralph Avenue, where it becomes a two-way street again until its eastern terminus at Bergen Avenue in Bergen Beach. Across the Paerdegat Basin, it resumes at East 80th Street in Canarsie and runs to its terminus at East 108th Street.
The neighborhood contains the most densely concentrated area of public housing in the United States. [44] [48] NYCHA owns more housing units in Brownsville than in any other neighborhood, with about one-third of the housing stock (around 10,000 units) in its 18 Brownsville developments, comprising over 100 buildings within 1 square mile (2.6 km 2).
Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park to the north, East Flatbush to the east, Midwood to the south, and Kensington and Parkville to the west.
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.
It was traditionally known as a Little Italy of Brooklyn. [4] Bensonhurst today is home to Brooklyn's second Chinatown and has the largest population of residents born in China and Hong Kong of any neighborhood in New York City. [5] The neighborhood accounts for 9.5% of the 330,000 Chinese-born residents of the city, based on data from 2007 to ...
Little Caughnawaga is a historical neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., with a large population of Kahnawake Mohawks, as well as those from Akwesasne and other Haudenosaunee peoples, many of whom were members of the Brooklyn Local 361 Ironworkers’ Union who were known as the Mohawk skywalkers and their families.