Brooklyn

:For other senses, see Brooklyn (disambiguation).

Neighborhoods of Brooklyn

Borough and state government buildings are mostly found in the Brooklyn Civic Center area (including Brooklyn Borough Hall and Kings County Supreme Court) in downtown Brooklyn, near the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Heights.

Related Topics:
Brooklyn Civic Center - Brooklyn Borough Hall - Kings County Supreme Court - Brooklyn Bridge - Brooklyn Heights

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Brooklyn, the 'Borough of Homes', can be understood as a collection of neighborhoods, many historically descended from the old towns and villages of Dutch times. The borough's striking diversity plays host to a bustle of ethnic and multi-ethnic neighborhoods that both preserve a flavor of 'the old country', of whatever latitude, and create spaces for interaction between individuals and communities. So for illustration, Borough Park is largely Orthodox Jewish, Bedford-Stuyvesant African American, Bensonhurst Italian American, and Sunset Park Hispanic.

Related Topics:
Neighborhoods - Ethnic - Borough Park - Orthodox Jewish - Bedford-Stuyvesant - African American - Bensonhurst - Italian American - Sunset Park - Hispanic

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Most sections of Brooklyn are indeed decidedly residential, fulfilling the borough's historic role as 'bedroom of New York'. This symbiotic mating of the residential city with the business center of Manhattan has profoundly shaped Brooklyn from its beginning. It only accelerated with the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and other connections, to the near-death of Brooklyn industries and a winnowing of commerce to a basic consumer level in the years following World War II. It is only at the start of the 21st century that business and industry have begun to revive around the borough amid something of a general renaissance.

Related Topics:
Residential - Manhattan - Brooklyn Bridge - Industries - Commerce - World War II - 21st century

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Many Brooklyn ethnic neighborhoods established in the first half of the 20th century developed to accommodate second-generation Americans escaping the slums of Manhattan. Today, however, new immigrants are just as likely to set down their first American roots in Brooklyn. The constant inward movement of new immigrant groups, as well as the expanding horizons of long-established groups, brought a dynamism to Brooklyn's neighborhoods.

Related Topics:
20th century - Slums - Immigrants

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In recent years a series of artists' colonies have developed along the East River across from Manhattan as a refuge for artists fleeing the sky-high rents of SoHo. Such was the development of the artistic community in Williamsburg, with consequent recent rent hikes there spurring a further exodus, to DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass), and even to Red Hook.

Related Topics:
Artists' colonies - SoHo - Williamsburg - DUMBO - Red Hook

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Brooklyn is politically organized as 18 Community Boards :

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• 1 : Flushing Avenue, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Northside, and Southside
• 2 : Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Mall, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Fulton Ferry, and Clinton Hill
• 3 : Bedford-Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant Heights, and Ocean Hill
• 4 : Bushwick and Ridgewood
• 5 : East New York, Cypress Hills, Highland Park, New Lots, City Line, and Starrett City
• 6 : Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill
• 7 : Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace
• 8 : Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Weeksville
• 9 : Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Wingate
• 10 : Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Fort Hamilton
• 11 : Bath Beach, Gravesend, Mapleton, and Bensonhurst
• 12 : Boro Park, Kensington, Ocean Parkway, and Midwood
• 13 : Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, and Seagate
• 14 : Flatbush, Midwood, Kensington, and Ocean Parkway
• 15 : Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Kings Bay, Gerritsen Beach, Kings Highway, East Gravesend, Madison, Homecrest, and Plum Beach
• 16 : Brownsville and Ocean Hill
• 17 : East Flatbush, Remsen Village, Farragut, Rugby, Erasmus and Ditmas Village
• 18 : Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Flatlands, Marine Park, Georgetown, and Mill Island

See: List of Brooklyn, New York neighborhoods

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