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Clinton Hill is a neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, a borough of New York City.It is bordered by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Flushing Avenue to the north, Williamsburg to the northeast, Classon Avenue and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the east, Atlantic Avenue and Prospect Heights to the south and southwest and Vanderbilt Avenue and Fort Greene to the west.
Fort Greene is covered by ZIP Codes 11201, 11205, 11217, and 11238, which respectively cover the northwest, northeast, southwest, and southeast parts of the neighborhood. [ 46 ] [ 47 ] The United States Post Office operates three locations nearby: the Times Plaza Station at 539 Atlantic Avenue, [ 48 ] the Times Plaza Annex at 594 Dean Street ...
Its primary ZIP Codes are 11205, 11206, 11216, 11221, 11233, and 11238. [1] Bedford–Stuyvesant is patrolled by the 79th and 81st Precincts of the New York City Police Department. [8] [9] Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 36th District.
Geography [ edit ] District 35 covers a series of Brooklyn neighborhoods to the north and east of Prospect Park , including Prospect Heights , Clinton Hill , Fort Greene , and parts of Bedford–Stuyvesant and Crown Heights . [ 4 ]
ZIP codes are not truly areas, but rather a group of deliverable addresses. [2] Some or all of an existing ZIP code's addresses may be reassigned to a new ZIP if there is sufficient growth within a given postal ZIP Code. As many as 3% of ZIP codes undergo change each quarter. Thus, the 5-digit ZCTAs are of limited value in areas of growth or ...
Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface. [1]
The study of GIR systems has a rich history dating back to the 1970s and possibly earlier. See Ray Larson’s book Geographic information retrieval and spatial browsing [20] for references to much of the pre-Web literature on GIR. In 2005 the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum added a geographic track, GeoCLEF.
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.