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Brooklyn Borough Hall is a building in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It was designed by architects Calvin Pollard and Gamaliel King in the Greek Revival style, and constructed of Tuckahoe marble under the supervision of superintendent Stephen Haynes. It was completed in 1848 as the City Hall for the City of Brooklyn.
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 ...
The Borough Hall/Court Street station is an underground New York City Subway station complex in Brooklyn shared by the BMT Fourth Avenue Line, the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line and the IRT Eastern Parkway Line. The complex comprises three stations: Borough Hall on the IRT lines and Court Street on the BMT line.
This is a list of New York City borough halls and municipal buildings used for civic agencies. Each of the borough halls serve as offices for their respective borough presidents and borough boards. New York City Hall; Manhattan Municipal Building, Civic Center; Bronx County Courthouse, Concourse, Bronx; Brooklyn Borough Hall, Downtown Brooklyn
New York City is often referred to collectively as the five boroughs, which can unambiguously refer to the city proper as a whole, avoiding confusion with any particular borough or with the Greater New York metropolitan area. The term is also used by politicians to counter a frequent focus on Manhattan and thereby to place all five boroughs on ...
The lines were to intersect under Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn. [19] The Jay Street–Borough Hall station was part of a three-stop extension of the IND Eighth Avenue Line from Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan. [20] [21] [22] Construction of the extension began in June 1928. [22] The extension opened to Jay Street on February 1, 1933.
Downtown Brooklyn is the third-largest central business district in New York City (after Midtown and Lower Manhattan [2]), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is known for its office and residential buildings, such as the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower and the MetroTech Center office complex.
This article covers the non-directionally labeled numbered east–west streets in the New York City borough of Brooklyn between and including 1st Street and 101st Street. . Most are offset by about 40 degrees from true east–west, that is they run southeast–northwest, but by local convention they are called east–