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Although New York City Deputy Municipal Reference Librarian Thelma E. Smith described the Kensington tracts from McDonald Avenue to Coney Island Avenue as a "sub-neighborhood" of Flatbush in a 1966 annotated bibliography of neighborhood histories and reportage for city officials, [26] The New York Times would characterize Ocean Parkway as the ...
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 ...
Every time a rash of burglaries broke out, officials blamed burglars from New York City. Finally, in 1855, a modern police force was created, employing 150 men. Voters complained of inadequate protection and excessive costs. In 1857, the state legislature merged the Brooklyn force with that of New York City. [41]
Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. [5] It is bounded by Prospect Park on the east and northeast, Park Slope at Prospect Park West, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Borough Park at McDonald Avenue on the northwest, west, and southwest, and Kensington at Caton Avenue on the south.
58 Kent Street is a three-story, open plan building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, in New York City. It is part of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory historic district, a complex that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The crowdfunding platform Kickstarter purchased the building in 2011 and completed an extensive renovation.
Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan is the most expensive shopping street in the world. [33] New York City real estate is a safe haven for global investors. [30] The total value of all New York City property was assessed at US$1.479 trillion for the 2017 fiscal year, an increase of 6.1% from the previous year.
The two buildings were completed in 1892. The station house, which later was used by the New York City Police Department's 68th Precinct, is a three-story brick building with carved stone detailing in the Romanesque Revival style. It features a projecting corner tower and Norman-inspired projecting main entrance portico. The stable is a two ...
731 Lexington Avenue, 1,400,000 square foot glass skyscraper on the East Side of Midtown Manhattan, New York City; 76 Eleventh Avenue; 85 Tenth Avenue; 99 Tenth Avenue; Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, built in 1902–07 by the federal government to house the duty collection operations for the Port of New York