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Borough Park [6] (also spelled Boro Park [7] [8]) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.The neighborhood is bordered by Bensonhurst to the south, Dyker Heights to the southwest, Sunset Park to the west, Kensington and Green-Wood Cemetery to the northeast, Flatbush to the east, and Mapleton to the southeast.
Congregation Beth El of Borough Park was founded in August, 1902, and it erected a brick building in 1906, at 12th Avenue and 41st Street, [3] that is the oldest synagogue building in Borough Park, now occupied by Chevra Anshei Lubawitz of Borough Park. [4] The congregation built a three-story building on 15th Avenue between 1920 and 1923.
Bobov (or Bobover Hasidism) (Hebrew: חסידות באבוב, Yiddish: בּאָבּאָװ) is a Hasidic community within Haredi Judaism, originating in Bobowa, Galicia, in southern Poland, [1] and now headquartered in the neighborhood of Borough Park, in Brooklyn, New York.
Yehudah Kletzky, known as "Leiby", was the third of six children and only son of Nachman Kletzky and Esti Forster Kletzky, Boyaner Hasidim and residents of Borough Park. [3] [5] He was reported missing late Monday afternoon while walking home from a day camp held at his school, Yeshiva Boyan Tiferes Mordechai Shlomo.
Boro Park General Hospital [1] [2] [3] (sometimes written Borough Park General Hospital), [4] was a 1920s to 1960 hospital whose Brooklyn address concurrently had one of two other names. The 1925-built structure [ 5 ] [ 4 ] is now a school.
Boro Park Shmira patrols Borough Park and surrounding areas including Kensington, Bay Ridge, and Bensonhurst. [70] It was founded in 2010 by Rabbi Levi Leifer and has over 200 members who respond to emergency calls including robberies , shoplifting , assaults , vehicle theft , vandalism , missing persons , burglaries , and sex crimes among others.
The Sanz-Klausenburger Hasidim are located in Borough Park, New York City, while the Sanzer Hasidim are based in Kiryat Sanz, Netanya, Israel. There are also followings in Los Angeles, California; Jerusalem; Stamford Hill, London; Antwerp; and Union City, New Jersey, and in the US, in Borough Park, Williamsburg, Monsey, and Lakewood.
Thirteenth Avenue is the commercial center [2] of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, and Dyker Heights. 13th Avenue starts at 36th Street in Kensington. It maintains a relatively straight route through Borough Park and ends at 86th Street in Dyker Heights. The avenue is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long.