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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.
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.
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 southern part of the avenue is one-way northbound while the portion in Greenpoint is bidirectional. The IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway (G train) runs under Manhattan Avenue north of McCarren Park, and has two stations, Nassau Avenue and Greenpoint Avenue. Greenpoint Savings Bank on Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn
Sister Elizabeth Memorial Hospital was a hospital in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It was located at 362 51st Street, between Third Avenue and Fourth Avenue ( 40°38′46″N 74°00′58″W / 40.6460°N 74.0160°W / 40.6460; -74.0160 ) and was absorbed by the Lutheran Medical Center during the
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 2011. [6] Bensonhurst is part of Brooklyn Community District ...
Greenpoint Bluff Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt: Owner: City of New York: Maintained by: NYCDOT: Length: 8.3 mi (13.4 km) [1] 2.4 mi (3.86 km) as Greenpoint Avenue 5.9 mi (9.50 km) as Roosevelt Avenue: Location: Brooklyn, Queens: Postal code: 11222, 11101, 11104, 11377, 11372, 11373, 11368, 11354: Nearest metro station: Greenpoint Avenue ...
The transit map showed both New York and New Jersey, and was the first time that an MTA-produced subway map had done that. [78] Besides showing the New York City Subway, the map also includes the MTA's Metro-North Railroad and Long Island Rail Road, New Jersey Transit lines, and Amtrak lines in the consistent visual language of the Vignelli map.