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The diagonal path of Flatbush Avenue creates a unique street pattern in every neighborhood it touches. It is the central artery of the borough, carrying traffic to and from Manhattan past landmarks such as MetroTech Center, City Point, the Fulton Mall, Junior's, Long Island University Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Terminal, the Barclays Center ...
The Cheshill Realty Corporation acquired 25 parcels for the store through private negotiations in 1931–1932; the Brooklyn Eagle called the purchases the "Flatbush mystery". The announcement of the new store, coinciding with two others in Union City and Hackensack, New Jersey, was only made once all the land had been purchased.
Lefferts General Hospital, 460 Lefferts Avenue, Brooklyn. [76] 1958–1978. Building demolished, replaced by a girl's Yeshiva. Linden General Hospital. Linden General Hospital, 501 New Lots Avenue, Brooklyn. [91] Now a homeless shelter. Long Island College Hospital, 339 Hicks Street, Brooklyn. Founded as the Brooklyn German General Dispensary ...
The investigation surveyed the Brooklyn County Almshouse, finding a hospital and lunatic asylum among other buildings constructed since the creation of the law. The hospital was a four-story 48 by 254 foot building housing 430 patients and lunatic asylum “260 feet long, wings 45 feet, and the centre 80 feet wide, four stories high” built to ...
The Raymond Street Jail was on the site of the northern third of the Brooklyn Hospital Center. [2] [3] In 1982 they merged with Caledonian Hospital, becoming Brooklyn Caledonian Hospital [4] [5] [6] (and retaining both locations until the Caledonian location was closed in 2003). [7] In 1990, the name was changed to The Brooklyn Hospital Center ...
Tribeca (/ t r aɪ ˈ b ɛ k ə / try-BEK-ə), originally written as TriBeCa, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City. Its name is a syllabic abbreviation of "Triangle Below Canal Street". [3] The "triangle" (more accurately a quadrilateral) is bounded by Canal Street, West Street, Broadway, and Chambers Street.
Brookdale is one of Brooklyn's largest voluntary nonprofit teaching hospitals, a regional tertiary care center, and is a level II trauma center.It provides 24-hour emergency services and long-term specialty care, has outpatient programs, and is one of 14 New York State DOH designated Stroke Centers in Brooklyn. [6]
The 18th-century Lefferts family house, which resided in Flatbush, was moved in 1918 from its original location to Prospect Park along Flatbush Avenue. [19] Near the Lefferts house is a former toll booth from the 19th century that once sat along the Flatbush Turnpike leading to Brooklyn. [87]