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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 ...
Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters (St. Francis College) (180 Remsen Street) May 10, 2011: Carroll Street Bridge: September 29, 1987: Childs Restaurant Building (Coney Island USA, 3014 West 12th Street, Coney Island) January 11, 2011
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.
Greenpoint Historic District is a national historic district in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, New York.It consists of 363 contributing commercial and residential buildings built between 1850 and 1900.
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.
Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms, [177] [178] and of postmodern art and design. [178] [179] Brooklyn is also home to Fort Hamilton, the U.S. military's only active duty installation within New York City, [180] aside from Coast Guard operations.
Carson C. Peck Memorial Hospital, 570 Crown Street, Brooklyn. Opened in 1919, merged with Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn in the 1970s. Later a nursing home and in 1985 became Crown Palace Hotel. Demolished in 2003 and replaced by a girl's yeshiva. [74] Cholera Hospital, Hamilton Avenue and Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn.
East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough line to the north; the Queens borough line to the east; Jamaica Bay to the south; and the New York City Subway's BMT Canarsie Line, the Bay Ridge Branch railroad tracks, and ...