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Downtown Brooklyn. Bridge Plaza/RAMBO; DUMBO. Fulton Ferry; Fort Greene; Prospect Heights. Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards; Vinegar Hill; South Brooklyn – takes its name from the geographical position of the original town of Brooklyn, which today includes the neighborhoods listed above under the heading "northwestern Brooklyn." It is not located ...
The Brooklyn Bay Parkways was a semi-professional baseball team based out of Erasmus Field of Erasmus Hall High School. Owned by Joe Rosner, brother of Max Rosner, owner of the Brooklyn Bushwicks , as well as Nat Strong , a prominent figure in organizing various Negro League teams, the Bay Parkways belonged to the Inter-City Baseball ...
Shirley Chisholm State Park is a 407-acre (1.65 km 2) state park in southeastern Brooklyn, New York City. It is bound by Belt Parkway and Spring Creek Park to the north and Jamaica Bay to the south, situated atop the former Pennsylvania Avenue and Fountain Avenue Landfills. The first sections of the park opened in 2019.
Plans for construction of the 36-mile (58 km) roadway were finalized and voted on by the New York City Department of Parks that same month, [6] with Mill Basin being one of five waterways to be spanned along the western edge of Jamaica Bay by a subsection of the project known as the Shore Parkway. [7]
The Flatbush Avenue–Brooklyn College station (announced as Brooklyn College–Flatbush Avenue station on trains) is the southern terminal station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. It is located at the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues in Flatbush, Brooklyn, locally called "The Junction". [3]
Asa Packer (December 29, 1805 – May 17, 1879) was an American businessman who pioneered railroad construction, was active in Pennsylvania politics, and founded Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Bay Ridge Parkway Shore Road Bay Parkway 3.1 miles 4 Bidirectional East/West Eastern Parkway: Prospect Park at Grand Army Plaza: Bushwick Avenue 3.9 miles 6-8 North to south Continues as a dead-end street east of Bushwick Avenue. Known as "Eastern Parkway Extension" east of Broadway. Fort Hamilton Parkway: Ocean Parkway: 101st Street 4.15 miles 2-4
John J. Carty Park, also known as Rubber Park, is located in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.This park honors John J. Carty (1909–1970), [1] a native of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn who lived his life only five blocks away and dedicated himself to New York City government for 32 years.