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Greenwood Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, named partially after the adjacent Green-Wood Cemetery by real estate developers. Greenwood Heights is a part of Brooklyn Community District 7 along with Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and South Slope.
The design of the Coty Building's six-story facade dates to a 1907–1908 renovation from Woodruff Leeming. [1]: 5 The facade is a glass wall surrounded by a frame.The first two stories have limestone-faced piers and a cornice supported by corbel brackets; they are treated as a single continuous section of the facade.
The estate was called Sunset Hill, due to its high elevation atop a hill and how its location provided for excellent views of the sunset during the summer and autumn months; furthermore, the mansion faced the west. [2] [3] [4] The hill on which the mansion was located reaches elevations high enough for the skyline of New York City to be seen. [5]
Sunset Park is a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) public park in the neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City, between 41st and 44th Streets and 5th and 7th Avenues. The modern-day park contains a playground , recreation center, splash pad, basketball courts, soccer field, and pool.
It is delimited by Gowanus Bay on the west; by 15th Street and Prospect Park South West on the north; and by Caton Avenue, Fort Hamilton Parkway, 37th Street and 8th Avenue on the east, as well as by the Long Island Rail Road and Bay Ridge R.R. Yards on the south. Its current chairperson is Julio Peña III and its district manager is Jeremy ...
The 53rd Street station is a local station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at 53rd Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, it is served by the R train at all times. The N train also stops here during late nights, and some rush-hour W trains stop here in the peak direction.
2017 New York City Council special election, District 9 [14] Party Candidate Votes % Community First : Bill Perkins: 3,933 : 34.0 : Holland4Harlem Marvin Holland 2,129 18.4 We Are One Athena Moore 1,715 14.8 Harlem Family Larry Scott Blackmon 1,371 11.8 Time to Wake Up Cordell Cleare: 1,101 9.5 Rent Too Damn High: Dawn Simmons: 314 Dawn for ...
The center of the mezzanine is outside fare control and has a token booth and two street stairs at each end. The ones on the west ( railroad south ) go up to the northeast and southwest corners of Clinton and Lafayette Avenues while the ones on the east (railroad north) end go up to either eastern corners of Washington and Lafayette Avenues. [ 10 ]