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The modern neighborhoods bearing these names are located roughly in the center of each of these original towns. Certain portions of the original six towns were also independent municipalities for a time, before being reabsorbed. Following an 1894 referendum, the entire consolidated City of Brooklyn became a borough of New York City in 1898.
South Brooklyn is a historic term [1] [2] for a section of the former City of Brooklyn – now the New York City borough of Brooklyn – encompassing what are now the Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and Red Hook neighborhoods.
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Landmark nineteenth-century brownstones in the Greenpoint Historic District of Brooklyn, New York City's most populous borough. 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 ...
Red Hook is a neighborhood in western Brooklyn, New York City, United States, within the area once known as South Brooklyn.It is located on a peninsula projecting into the Upper New York Bay and is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway and the Carroll Gardens neighborhood on the northeast, Gowanus Canal on the east, and the Upper New York Bay on the west and south.
New York City is split up into five boroughs: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island.Each borough has the same boundaries as a county of the state. The county governments were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county.
After Brooklyn was incorporated as a city in 1834, [28] [29] the Commissioners Plan of 1839 was devised, a street plan that extended to South Brooklyn. [30] [31] [32] Park Slope was originally located in the northern section of the Eighth Ward, which at the time was the city's least populous ward. [24] [33]
The East River Ferry serves points in Lower Manhattan, Midtown, Long Island City, and northwestern Brooklyn via its East River route. The South Brooklyn and Rockaway routes serve southwestern Brooklyn before terminating in lower Manhattan. Ferries to Coney Island are also planned. [172] NY Waterway offers tours and charters.