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These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn. The towns were, clockwise from the north: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the middle.
A view of Kings Highway from East 16th Street in 2006. Kings Highway is a broad avenue that curves about the southern part of the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Its west end is at Bay Parkway and 78th Street. East of Ocean Avenue, the street is largely residential. It tracks eastward, then northeast, then north through Brooklyn and ...
New York City was originally confined to Manhattan Island and the smaller surrounding islands that formed New York County. As the city grew northward, it began annexing areas on the mainland, absorbing territory from Westchester County into New York County in 1874 and 1895 . During the 1898 consolidation, this territory was organized as the ...
The boundaries of East Williamsburg as noted on a map. East Williamsburg is a name for the area in the northwestern portion of Brooklyn, New York City, United States.East Williamsburg consists roughly of what was the 3rd District of the Village of Williamsburgh and what is now called the East Williamsburg In-Place Industrial Park (EWIPIP), bounded by the neighborhoods of Northside and ...
New York State Route 878 (NY 878) is an expressway on Long Island in New York state. The route exists in two sections, which both form the Nassau Expressway . NY 878's western terminus is the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue ( NY 27 ) in Ozone Park , within southern Queens in New York City .
Originally an independent town, [4] [5] Flatlands became part of the City of Brooklyn in 1896. [6] Flatlands is part of Brooklyn Community District 18, and its primary ZIP Code is 11234. [1] It is patrolled by the 63rd Precinct of the New York City Police Department. [7] Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 45th and 46th ...
New York City Transit Authority: Garage: Flatbush Depot: Vehicle: Orion VII NG HEV New Flyer Xcelsior XD40: Began service: 1860 (trolley line) March 4, 1951 (bus service) September 14, 1992 (limited-stop service) Night-time: Every 30 minutes (buses alternate between each branch) Route; Locale: Brooklyn, New York, U.S. Start: Downtown Brooklyn ...
Bay Parkway was known as 22nd Avenue until the 1930s, when the name was changed to facilitate large-scale apartment-type residential development.Its renaming as a parkway was first proposed in the state legislature in 1892, along with Bay Ridge Parkway, and Fort Hamilton Parkway, placing the road under the jurisdiction of the Brooklyn Parks Department. [4]