Canarsie is a neighborhood in the eastern portion of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, USA. Its name is Algonquin for "fenced land" or "fort." The famous sale of Manhattan for 24 guilders was actually a scam on the part of the Indians. The Indians who did the selling were from what is now Canarsie; they did not possess Manhattan at all. Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, and formerly in New Zealand. ... A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ... The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ... The Algonquins or Algonkins are an aboriginal North American people speaking Algonquin, an Algonquian language. ... Manhattan Borough,highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...

Canarsie was built on swamps by Jamaica Bay. It was a fishing village through the 1800s, until pollution killed the oysters and the edible fish. In the 1920s Italians settled in the area, later joined by Jews. During the 1950s, Canarsie was a kind of byword for mediocrity for elite Manhattanites. Some said all Canarsie had were three "M's" - "mud, mortgages, and malaria." Jamaica Bay is a bay that lies in the shadow of New York Citys skyscrapers and is adjacent to one of the nations busiest airports. ...

The neighborhood lies within the former town of Flatlands, one of the five original Dutch towns on Long Island. It is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek and East 108th Street, on the north by the Long Island Rail Road's Bay Ridge Line, on the west by Ralph Avenue and the Paerdegat Basin and on the south by Jamaica Bay. Flatlands is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ... The four counties of Long Island. ... The Long Island Rail Road or LIRR is a railroad that serves the length of Long Island, New York. ... Jamaica Bay is a bay that lies in the shadow of New York Citys skyscrapers and is adjacent to one of the nations busiest airports. ...

Canarsie is home to approximately 96,000 people. In the mid-twentieth century, the neighborhood was primarily home to descendants of Southern Italian immigrants. Beginning in the 1970s, Black students from neighborhoods such as East New York and Brownsville were bused into the all- white schools of Canarsie, stirring up much racial tensions and upheval, a process documented by sociologist Jonathan Rieder in Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against liberalism. In the mid 1990s, many Italians and Jews left Canarsie while African-Americans began to rapidly populate the area. They now form a majority in the neighborhood. Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ...

The majority of the structures in Canarsie are one and two family homes, although there are two large public housing developments and a number of small apartment buildings scattered throughout the community.

The neighborhood also has many parks, including a large park commonly referred to as Seaview Park, but officially named Canarsie Beach Park, which is over 100 acres.

The BMT Canarsie Line of the New York City Subway terminates Canarsie, connecting the neighborhood to Manhattan. The principal commercial streets are Rockaway Parkway, Flatlands Avenue, and Avenue L. The Canarsie Line, sometimes called the 14th Street-Canarsie Line, is a rapid transit line of the BMT Division of the New York City Subway system, named after its Brooklyn terminus in the Canarsie neighborhood. ... The New York City Subway, which has returned to service after a strike in 2005, is a large rapid transit system in New York City, New York, United States. ...