South Brooklyn is a hybrid neighborhood encompassing areas of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Gowanus and Boerum Hill. It is named for its location, geographically south of the original Dutch settlement of Breuckelen. It is not to be confused with the actual southern region of Brooklyn, which spans the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge and Coney Island, for example.
SouthBrooklyn is a hybrid neighborhood encompassing areas of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Gowanus, Park Slope, and Boerum Hill.
It is named for its location in the southern part of the original City of Brooklyn.
The area is not to be confused with the actual southern region of the borough of Brooklyn, usually called "southern Brooklyn" or "the southern tier", which spans the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge and Coney Island, for example.
South of this is Gowanus Bay, connected to the Gowanus Canal.
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.
Brooklyn's most beloved and cherished institution had left, and the move is cited by some historians as one of the catalysts for the decline of Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s.
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