Cadman Plaza, with Columbus statue in the center Cadman Plaza Park, is located on the border between the Brooklyn Heights historic neighborhood and Downtown Brooklyn. It is bounded by Cadman Plaza East and West, and Tillary and Johnson Streets. The south portion of a park is set next to the Brooklyn Courthouse, which is actually in the eastern portion of the Cadman Plaza. South of Cadman Plaza is Brooklyn Borough Hall. This portion of Cadman Plaza is also known as Columbus Park, featuring a statue of Christopher Columbus. Image File history File links TowardCadmanEast. ...
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Expensive real estate: Brooklyn Heights in the snow taken from the Promenade, 2003 Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that was originally Brooklyn Village, and, from 1834, the main area of Brooklyn City. ...
Skyline of Downtown Brooklyn seen from the East River Metro Tech is a business center in Downtown Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City (following Midtown Manhattan and Downtown Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. ...
Brooklyn Borough Hall Brooklyn Borough Hall was designed in 1835 and completed in 1849 to be used as the City Hall of the City of Brooklyn. ...
Christopher Columbus portrait, painted by Alejo Fernándõ between 1505 and 1536. ...
A statue of William Jay Gaynor (1829-1913) is located in the northern end of Cadman Plaza Park. He was Mayor of New York City from 1910 to 1913. Beforehand, he was a journalist, a lawyer, and a New York Supreme Court justice, known for his tough stance on corruption. During his tenure as mayor, he tried to eliminate some of influence of Tammany Hall on city government. Gaynor was assassinated by an irate former civil servant in 1913. Gaynor was also well known for his social life, and he walked over the Brooklyn Bridge to New York City Hall and back to his home in Park Slope everyday. William Jay Gaynor (1849â1913) was an American politician from New York City, associated with the Tammany Hall political machine. ...
For a list of the Dutch Director-Generals who governed New Amsterdam (as New York City was called when it was a Dutch-run settlement) between 1624 and 1664, see: Director-General of New Netherland. ...
The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the basic New York State trial court of general jurisidiction. ...
Tammany Hall was the name given to the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in New York City politics from the 1790s to the 1960s. ...
For other uses, see Brooklyn Bridge (disambiguation). ...
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A typical Park Slope block in spring. ...
A massive 24-foot tall memorial is located in the center of the park. It honors Brooklynites who served in World War II. The memorial is designed by Charles Keck (1975-1951). It was one of the largest monuments in New York City, at its dedication in 1952. Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead...
An example of Kecks work: A panel in the Nelson Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri. ...
Namesake
The Reverend Doctor Samuel Parkes Cadman (1864-1936) was a Brooklyn Congregational Church minister and radio preacher well known for his oratory. For 36 years of his life, he was pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn and helped to found the Federated Council of Churches in America, which he headed from 1924-1928. Rev. Cadman was considered the Congregational faith’s leading minister both in the United States and worldwide. Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practising congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs. ...
Photo Gallery Cadman Plaza, and Brooklyn Borough Hall in the background Image File history File links Cadman_BoroughHall. ...
Brooklyn Borough Hall Brooklyn Borough Hall was designed in 1835 and completed in 1849 to be used as the City Hall of the City of Brooklyn. ...
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| Neighborhoods in the New York City Borough of Brooklyn |
 | Barren Island · Bath Beach · Bay Ridge · Bedford · Bedford-Stuyvesant · Bensonhurst · Boerum Hill · Borough Park · Brighton Beach · Brooklyn Heights · Brownsville · Bushwick · Cadman Plaza · Canarsie · Carroll Gardens · City Line · Clinton Hill · Cobble Hill · Coney Island · Crown Heights · Ditmas Park · Downtown · DUMBO · Dyker Heights · East Flatbush · East New York · East Williamsburg · Fiske Terrace · Flatbush · Flatlands · Fort Greene · Fort Hamilton · Fulton Ferry · Georgetown · Gerritsen Beach · Gowanus · Gravesend · Greenpoint · Homecrest · Kensington · Little Poland · Manhattan Beach · Marine Park · Midwood · Mill Basin · Navy Yard · New Lots · New Utrecht · Ocean Hill · Ocean Parkway · Park Slope · Pigtown · Prospect Heights · Prospect Park South · Red Hook · Seagate · Sheepshead Bay · South Brooklyn · Starrett City · Sunset Park · Vinegar Hill · Williamsburg · Windsor Terrace These are the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, one of five boroughs of New York City. ...
Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area - City 1,214. ...
The Five Boroughs of New York City: 1: Manhattan 2: Brooklyn 3: Queens 4: Bronx 5: Staten Island In New York City, a borough is a unique form of government used to administer the five constituent counties that make up the city; it differs significantly from other borough forms of...
Brooklyn (named for the Dutch city Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. ...
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Barren Island, was originally an island off the southern end of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, in Jamaica Bay just opposite the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. ...
Bath Beach is a community of Brooklyn, New York City, located at the southwestern edge of the mainland of the Borough on Gravesend Bay. ...
Map of Bay Ridge. ...
Bedford is a community in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, centered approximately at the corner of modern-day Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue. ...
Bedford Stuyvesant (aka Bed-Stuy) is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York City. ...
Bensonhurst Embankment is a common walkplace in (Bensonhurst) Bensonhurst is a working class neighborhood located in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ...
Boerum Hill is a small segment of Brooklyn roughly bounded by State Street to the north, 3rd Avenue to the east, Court Street to the west, and Warren Street to the south. ...
Borough Park street covered with snow. ...
Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. ...
Expensive real estate: Brooklyn Heights in the snow taken from the Promenade, 2003 Brooklyn Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that was originally Brooklyn Village, and, from 1834, the main area of Brooklyn City. ...
Brownsville is a neighborhood in central Brooklyn, New York. ...
Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northeastern part of Brooklyn, New York City. ...
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Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA named for Charles Carroll, a revolutionary war veteran who was also the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. ...
City Line is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, bordering the neighborhood of Ozone Park, Queens to the east, and the neighborhoods of East New York to the west, Cypress Hills to the north, and Jamaica Bay to the south. ...
Clinton Hill is a small neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, New York. ...
Cobble Hill is a Brooklyn neighborhood in New York City, USA. Bordered by Atlantic Avenue on the north, Hicks Street to the west, Smith Street on the east and Degraw Street to the south, Cobble Hill sits adjacent to Boerum Hill and Brooklyn Heights with Carroll Gardens to the south. ...
Image of Coney Island, located in the middle left of the picture, taken by NASA. The peninsula to the right is Rockaway, Queens. ...
Crown Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn in New York City. ...
Ditmas Park is one of three Flatbush neighbourhoods which has been officially designated a Historic District. ...
Skyline of Downtown Brooklyn seen from the East River Metro Tech is a business center in Downtown Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City (following Midtown Manhattan and Downtown Manhattan), and is located in the northwestern section of the borough of Brooklyn. ...
A view of part of DUMBO with Manhattan in the distance DUMBO (an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) is the popular name of a neighborhood in Brooklyn. ...
Dyker Heights is a neighborhood in southwestern Brooklyn, New York, USA. It is sandwiched between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst on Gravesend Bay(Lower New York Bay). ...
East Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ...
East New York is a primarily low to middle income neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ...
Bushwick is a place in the borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA. It was founded in 1661 by Governor Peter Stuyvesant as Boswijck. ...
Fiske Terrace is a planned community and neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. ...
Flatbush is a community of the Borough of Brooklyn, a part of New York City, consisting of several neighborhoods. ...
Flatlands is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ...
Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ...
The park stip between the shore road and Narrows Fort Hamilton is a neighborhood in the far southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn,. It is located south of Bay Ridge and is often considered part of Bay Ridge. ...
Fulton Ferry is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ...
Georgetown is a small neighborhood east of Ralph Avenue in Brooklyn. ...
Gerritsen Beach is a Brooklyn neighborhood, located near Marine Park and Sheepshead Bay. ...
Gowanus is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA, situated roughly between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens on the west and Park Slope on the East. ...
Afternoon by the Sea (Gravesend Bay), a pastel by William Merritt Chase, ca 1888 shows traditional catboats in the bay and the Navesink Highlands across Lower New York Bay. ...
Landmark 19th century rowhouses on tree lined street in the Greenpoint Historic District. ...
Homecrest is a neighborhood situated in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. ...
Kensington is a neighborhood in the center of the New York City, borough of Brooklyn. ...
Little Poland is an informal name for part of a neighborhood in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. ...
Manhattan Beach is a beach on the Atlantic Ocean situated on the eastern end of Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. ...
Gerritsen Avenue is a major traffic corridor in the nighborhood. ...
Midwood has a substantial population of Haredi Jews and Modern Orthodox Jews, many of whom live and worship in the side streets around Kings Highway Midwood is a neighborhood located in the south central part of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA, roughly halfway between Prospect Park and Coney...
Mill Basin/ Mill Island is a neighborhood in southeastern Brooklyn lying along Jamaica Bay and bounded to the north by Avenue U, and to the east, south, and west by the Mill Basin/ Mill Island Inlet. ...
The New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the New York Navy Yard and United States Navy Yard, New York, is located 1. ...
New Lots is a section of Brooklyn New York. ...
New Utrecht was a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ...
Ocean Hill is a neighborhood on the Northeastern section of Brooklyn in New York City. ...
Ocean Parkway is a broad boulevard and associated neighborhood in the west central portion of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ...
A typical Park Slope block in spring. ...
Pigtown formerly described a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, existing as such until approximately the end of the 19th century. ...
Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA, bounded by Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway to the south, and, traditionally, Washington Avenue to the east,1 though some people have recently begun to claim boundaries as far east as Bedford Avenue. ...
Prospect Park South is a distinct neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the community of Flatbush. ...
A Holland-Style Factory Building in Red Hook Red Hook circa 1875 Red Hook is a neighborhood of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA. Before annexation into Brooklyn, Red Hook was a separate village. ...
Seagate, Brooklyn was built at the far western end of Coney Island at the southern tip of Brooklyn. ...
Sheepshead Bay is a bay separating the mainland of Brooklyn, New York City from the eastern portion of Coney Island, the latter originally a barrier island but now effectively an extension of the mainland with peninsulas both east and west. ...
South Brooklyn is a hybrid neighborhood encompassing areas of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Gowanus and Boerum Hill. ...
In 2003, Starrett City changed its name to the Spring Creek Towers. ...
Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southern Brooklyn section of Brooklyn, New York, USA. The neighborhood is located south of Park Slope and Windsor Terrace, separated by Green-Wood Cemetery and the Prospect Expressway/NY-27, while 65th Street and the Gowanus Expressway/I-278 mark the end of...
Vinegar Hill is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City on the East River waterfront between Dumbo and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. ...
Williamsburg is a neighborhood in northern Brooklyn, New York City. ...
A circle of greenery in Windsor Terrace Windsor Terrace is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA. It is bounded by Prospect Park to the east and Green-Wood Cemetery to the west. ...
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