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The New York Mets' duration in Shea Stadium (1964–2008) was the same as that of the Dodgers in Ebbets Field. When the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association moved to Brooklyn in 2012, it marked a return of major-league professional sports to the borough after a 55-year absence. In addition, prior to their first season in the ...
December 24, 1967 [4] Designated NYCL. October 14, 1965 [2] The Wyckoff House, or Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House, is a historic house at 5816 Clarendon Road in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, within Milton Fidler Park. It is situated on land that New Netherland director general Wouter van Twiller purchased from the Lenape ...
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."
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York.Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the newly formed Province of New York upon seizing the colony of New Netherland from the Dutch.
The Brooklyn Heights Historic District is a historic district that comprises much of the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, United States.It was named a National Historic Landmark in January, 1965, [2] designated a New York City Landmark in November, 1965, [3] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in October, 1966.
Area code. 718, 347, 929, and 917. Bedford–Stuyvesant (/ ˈbɛdfərd ˈstaɪvəsənt /), colloquially known as Bed–Stuy, [3] is a neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Bedford–Stuyvesant is bordered by Flushing Avenue to the north (bordering Williamsburg), Classon Avenue to the west (bordering ...
September 26, 1983. Fort Greene Historic District is a national historic district in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It consists of 1,158 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, one contributing object, and two contributing structures. It is characterized by a concentration of architecturally distinguished three and four ...
The Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, also known as One Hanson Place, is a skyscraper in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.Located at the northeast corner of Ashland Place and Hanson Place near Downtown Brooklyn, the tower was designed by Halsey, McCormack & Helmer and constructed from 1927 to 1929 as the new headquarters for the Williamsburgh Savings Bank.