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Borough Park [6] (also spelled Boro Park [7] [8]) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.The neighborhood is bordered by Bensonhurst to the south, Dyker Heights to the southwest, Sunset Park to the west, Kensington and Green-Wood Cemetery to the northeast, Flatbush to the east, and Mapleton to the southeast.
Burrs Country Park covers a 36 hectare (86 acre) site on the banks of the River Irwell, in the town of Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It was acquired by Bury Metropolitan Borough Council in 1986 and transformed from a derelict industrial site into a modern country park.
Bobov (or Bobover Hasidism) (Hebrew: חסידות באבוב, Yiddish: בּאָבּאָװ) is a Hasidic community within Haredi Judaism, originating in Bobowa, Galicia, in southern Poland, [1] and now headquartered in the neighborhood of Borough Park, in Brooklyn, New York.
Thirteenth Avenue is the commercial center [2] of the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, and Dyker Heights. 13th Avenue starts at 36th Street in Kensington. It maintains a relatively straight route through Borough Park and ends at 86th Street in Dyker Heights. The avenue is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long.
District 44 is based in the heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park in southwestern Brooklyn, also covering Ocean Parkway and parts of Bensonhurst and Midwood. [3] The district overlaps with Brooklyn Community Boards 11, 12, 14, and 15, and with New York's 9th, 10th, and 11th congressional districts.
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View of South Brooklyn. South Brooklyn is a historic term [1] [2] for a section of the former City of Brooklyn – now the New York City borough of Brooklyn – encompassing what are now the Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and Red Hook neighborhoods.
Congregation Beth El of Borough Park was founded in August, 1902, and it erected a brick building in 1906, at 12th Avenue and 41st Street, [3] that is the oldest synagogue building in Borough Park, now occupied by Chevra Anshei Lubawitz of Borough Park. [4] The congregation built a three-story building on 15th Avenue between 1920 and 1923.