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English: General-content map of the present-day borough of Brooklyn (Kings County, New York City) and Queens County before the detachment of its eastern portion in 1898 to form Nassau County. Shows incorporated cities, towns (townships), roads, rural buildings, and rural householders' names; shows street system in urban areas.
Brooklyn (co-extensive with Kings County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous borough. Brooklyn is known for its cultural, social, and ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods, and a distinctive architectural heritage. Downtown Brooklyn is the largest central core neighborhood in the outer ...
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.
When ZIP Codes were assigned in 1963, all areas whose mail was routed through a Brooklyn post office were given the 112 prefix. [11] The neighboring areas of Glendale and Ridgewood in Queens were given a Brooklyn mailing address, 11227, shared with Bushwick and Wyckoff Heights. [ 11 ]
1859 Map of Kings and Queens Counties, pre-consolidation, when the City of Brooklyn had already annexed Williamsburg and Bushwick, and Long Island City had not yet incorporated [78 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maps of Long Island published in 1873 by Beers, Comstock & Cline .
The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which coincides with Kings County, New York. The locations of National Register properties ...
DeKalb Avenue (/ d iː ˈ k æ l b / dee-KALB, / ˈ d iː k æ l b / DEE-kalb) is a thoroughfare in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, with the majority of its length in Brooklyn. It runs from Woodward Avenue (Linden Hill Cemetery) in Ridgewood, Queens to Downtown Brooklyn, terminating at the Fulton Mall where the Brooklyn Tower ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Queens, New York. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [1]