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Ultimately, New York City's aeronautical engineer Clarence Chamberlin selected nearby Barren Island as the site for the new airport, which later became Floyd Bennett Field. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] The Belt Parkway was built through the neighborhood in the 1930s, and it opened in 1940. [ 35 ]
Sea Gate is a private gated community at the far western end of Coney Island at the southwestern tip of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. [1] Located on the portion of the Coney Island peninsula west of West 37th Street, [ 2 ] it contains mostly single-family homes, some directly on Gravesend Bay .
New York City Subway service to Sheepshead Bay is provided by the BMT Brighton Line (B and Q trains), with local stops at Avenue U and Neck Road, and express/local stops at the Kings Highway and Sheepshead Bay stations. New York City Bus routes in the area include the B3, B4, B36, B44, B44 SBS, B49 and B68 local buses and the BM3 express bus. [71]
Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood in the central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. [5] It is bounded by Prospect Park on the east and northeast, Park Slope at Prospect Park West, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Borough Park at McDonald Avenue on the northwest, west, and southwest, and Kensington at Caton Avenue on the south.
The River Café is a restaurant located on a former coffee barge in the East River under the Brooklyn Bridge.It has offered its own ferry service from Wall Street.Opened in 1977 by Michael O'Keeffe, who has also owned several other New York City restaurants, it was one of the first fine dining restaurants in the city to promote locally sourced and organic food, American cuisine, and high-end ...
East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough line to the north; the Queens borough line to the east; Jamaica Bay to the south, and the Bay Ridge Branch railroad tracks and Van Sinderen Avenue to the ...
Vinegar Hill is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on the East River Waterfront between Dumbo and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [3] [4] The neighborhood is locally governed by Brooklyn Community Board 2 and is policed by the New York City Police Department's 84th Precinct.
Although New York City Deputy Municipal Reference Librarian Thelma E. Smith described the Kensington tracts from McDonald Avenue to Coney Island Avenue as a "sub-neighborhood" of Flatbush in a 1966 annotated bibliography of neighborhood histories and reportage for city officials, [26] The New York Times would characterize Ocean Parkway as the ...