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Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. It is bound by 65th Street on the north, Interstate 278 on the east, and the Belt Parkway-Shore Road on the west. The southern border is 101st Street. The portion below 86th Street is a subsection called Fort Hamilton. A small area east of I-278, bounded by 7th Avenue, is also part of Bay Ridge.
Bay Ridge is a largely middle-class neighborhood and is one of the few such places remaining in Brooklyn. With its strong family presence, it is not uncommon to see third or fourth generation families living in the region.
The area is serviced by the R train of the Fourth Avenue line of the New York City Subway, with stations at Bay Ridge Avenue, 77th Street, 86th Street and 95th Street.
Bay Ridge is readily accessible by car, encircled by the Belt Parkway and Gowanus Expressway.
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Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst is a working class neighborhood located in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Bensonhurst runs from about 14th Avenue to 25th Avenue and from Gravesend Bay to 53rd Street, encompassing Bath Beach, New Utrecht, and part of Dyker Heights and bordered by the Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Gravesend, and Borough Park sections.
86th Street is another popular thoroughfare stretching from 16th Avenue to Stillwell Avenue and lined by the arches of the elevated subway line BMT West End Line of the New York City Subway. The 86th Street elevated train was popularized in opening credits of Welcome Back Kotter.
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Borough Park
Borough Park (sometimes rendered as Boro Park), is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn.
Stores and businesses are currently expanding and gaining economically. The 13th Avenue shopping district, a shopping strip roughly one mile in length from 39th street to about 55th street. coming from all parts of the city, other parts of the country and from other countries. These stores credit their increase in profits and business to the use of entrepreneurial spirit among their storeowners, the increasing density of the Hasidic population in Borough Park, and the Internet
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Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that was originally Brooklyn Village, and, from 1834, the main area of Brooklyn City. As of 2000, Brooklyn Heights, had a population of 22,493 people.
Situated so close to the foot of Manhattan, Brooklyn Heights is serviced by numerous subway lines, specifically the A, C, F, M, R, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
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Coney Island
Coney Island is a peninsula (and formerly an island) located in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, USA, with a famous beach lying on the Atlantic Ocean. The eponymous neighborhood is a community of 60,000 people in the western part of the peninsula, with Seagate to its west, and Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east. To the north is Gravesend.
Coney Island still maintains a broad sandy beach from West 37th Street at Sea Gate through the Coney Island and Brighton Beach to the beginning of the community of Manhattan Beach, a distance of approximately two-and-a-half miles (~4.0 km).
Its main subway station is called Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue and is reached by the D, F, N and Q train lines of the New York City Subway. The three main avenues in the Coney Island community (as opposed to the island itself), are (north to south) Neptune Avenue (which crosses to the mainland to become Emmons Avenue), Mermaid Avenue, and Surf Avenue (which becomes Ocean Parkway and then runs north towards Brooklyn's Prospect Park).
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Dyker Heights
Dyker Heights is a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn, New York, USA. It is sandwiched between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst on Gravesend Bay(Lower New York Bay). Dyker Heights is bounded to the west by 7th Avenue, to the north by 65th Street, to the east by 14th Avenue and to the south by 86th Street, excepting the Dyker Beach Golf Course, which extends to the Belt Parkway.
The neighborhood is best known for the extravagant Christmas decorations erected by its residents each year. Although not all residents can be labeled wealthy, the neighborhood is markedly well off. Many of the houses are mini-mansion or actual mansions, but there is nothing that can be properly termed an estate. The mansions are mostly located on and off 11th Avenue from 86th Street to 79th Street.
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Gravesend
Gravesend (pronounced "GRAVES end", not "grave SEND") is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, USA. It is bordered by Bensonhurst, Sheepshead Bay, and Coney Island. The name is derived from the Dutch "grafe ende," which means "the end of the grove." However, many speculate that the namesake of Gravesend comes from many roads that intersect the Washington Cemetery located in the area, between 65th Street, Bay Parkway and Ocean Parkway.
The current community of Gravesend is centered on the former village square centered at the intersection of [Gravesend] Neck Road and McDonald (formerly Gravesend) Avenue. The center of the square is dominated and served by the elevated train station of the BMT Culver Line of the New York City Subway system.
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Kensington
Kensington is a neighborhood in the center of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered by Coney Island Avenue to the east, Caton Avenue to the north, 36th Avenue to the west, and Ditmas Avenue to the south. The neighborhoods that border it are Ditmas Park and Prospect Park South to the east, Windsor Terrace to the north, Borough Park to the west, and Parkville to the south.
Kensington is a predominantly residential area consisting of housing types that run the gamut from brick rowhouses, to detached one family Victorians and apartment buildings. Pre-war brick apartment buildings dominate the Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue frontage, many operating as co-ops. There is a commercial area on Church Avenue. Ocean Parkway bisects the neighborhood and the F train (IND Culver Line) runs along the western part of the neighborhood. In addition, Kensington is served by the B16, B23, B35, B67, B68, and B103 local buses, as well as the X29 express bus to Manhattan.
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Kings highway
Kings Highway is a Business Improvement District that runs through the borough of Brooklyn. The street has over 100 stores and shops.
The road begins at Bay Parkway. After intersecting with Ocean Avenue the street becomes mostly residential, snaking through Brooklyn and ending at East 98th Street.
The street is served by three New York City Subway Lines:
BMT Sea Beach Line (N), at West 8th Street,
BMT Culver Line (F), at McDonald Ave and
BMT Brighton Line (B, Q), at East 16th Street
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Midwood
Midwood is a neighborhood in the south central part of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA, roughly halfway between Prospect Park and Coney Island.
The area is served by New York Subway's Q Service at Avenue J, Avenue M, and Kings Highway, the latter of which is also served by the B Line.
The main shopping streets in the area are Kings Highway, Avenue J, Avenue M, and Flatbush, Nostrand, and Coney Island Avenues.
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Ocean Parkway
Ocean Parkway extends over a distance of about six miles (120 city blocks), running almost north to south from Prospect Park to Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
The parkway runs roughly parallel to Coney Island Avenue, an important commercial avenue that is several blocks to the east. It consists of a central bidirectional avenue of six lanes, two small parallel side streets, and several medians with trees, benches, and pedestrian paths. There is also a bike path. The parkway is New York State Reference Route 908H, although this is not signed.
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Park Slope
Park Slope is a neighborhood in the western section of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough. It is known for its vibrant cultural community and is considered one of Brooklyn's major cultural centers.
Park Slope is roughly bounded by Fourth Avenue, Prospect Park West (Ninth Avenue), Flatbush Avenue, and Fifteenth Street. It takes its name from its location on the western slope of neighboring Prospect Park.
The neighborhood has many historic buildings, hip restaurants, bars, and retail stores, as well as close access to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Central Library (as well as the Park Slope branch) of the Brooklyn Public Library system.
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Prospect Heights
Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA, bounded by Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway to the south, and, traditionally, Washington Avenue to the east,1 though some people have recently begun to claim boundaries as far east as Bedford Avenue. In its northern section are the Atlantic Yards.
Compared to other Brooklyn neighborhoods, Prospect Heights is relatively small and is notable for its cultural diversity as well as its quiet, tree-lined streets. Prospect Heights is rapidly changing demographically, and its shifts are exemplified by a mixture of old and new buildings and businesses.
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Sunset Park
Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southern Brooklyn section of Brooklyn, New York, USA. The neighborhood is located south of Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, separated by Green-Wood Cemetery and the Prospect Expressway/NY-27, while 65th Street and the Gowanus Expressway/I-278 mark the end of the community before Bay Ridge further south. The community extends westward from Borough Park at 9th Avenue, all the way to the piers of Brooklyn's waterfront and the Brooklyn Army Terminal.
There is a namesake city park within the neighborhood, located at 43rd Street and 5th Avenue, which is one of the highest points in Brooklyn. The hilly terrain of the park affords visitors magnificent views of Downtown Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Bridge, Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty, Staten Island, and New Jersey beyond. The "main drag" of the neighborhood lies along 5th Avenue. The New York City Subway serves the region on the Fourth Avenue Line with stations at 36th Street, 45th Street, 53rd Street and 59th Street. The area is also home to the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot.
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