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7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th. Website. www .brooklyn-usa .org. Brooklyn is a borough of New York City. Located on the westernmost end of Long Island, it is coextensive with Kings County in the U.S. state of New York. With 2,736,074 residents as of the 2020 United States census, [1] Kings County is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York ...
Staten Island Zoo. Kids under two can scope out Staten Island's eight-acre collection of more than 1,100 animals for free. If you plan your visit for a Wednesday afternoon, between 2 and 4 p.m ...
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 ...
Website. Official website. The Brooklyn Children's Museum is a children's museum in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Founded in 1899, it is the first children's museum in the United States – and according to some, the first one worldwide. [1] It is unusual in its location in what is predominantly a residential area ...
Brooklyn Free School. / 40.687083°N 73.968028°W / 40.687083; -73.968028. The Brooklyn Free School is a private, ungraded, democratic free school in Brooklyn, founded in 2004. Students range in age from 4 to 18 years old. The school follows the noncoercive philosophy of the 1960s/70s free school movement schools, which encourages self ...
The Brooklyn Book Festival kicks off first with a week of citywide Bookend Events, then a lively Children's Day and finally a celebratory Festival Day with more than 300 authors and 250 ...
Children's Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Children's Garden, at the southeastern corner, is one of the world's oldest children's gardens, as well as the oldest in the U.S. It was founded by BBG educator Ellen Eddy Shaw and was initially divided into plots measuring 8 by 10 ft (2.4 by 3.0 m) or 10 by 12 ft (3.0 by 3.7 m).
The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, was an action of the American Revolutionary War fought on August 27, 1776, at and near the western edge of Long Island in present-day Brooklyn. The British defeated the Continental Army and gained access to the strategically important Port of New ...