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Kingston Avenue (IRT Eastern Parkway Line)

Kingston Avenue is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Kingston Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, it is served by the 3 train at all times except late nights, when it is replaced by the 4. There is also occasional 2 train service here during rush hours. This underground station, opened on August 23, 1920, has two levels.

Located at 40.6694, -73.9422 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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IRT Eastern Parkway Line stations, New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1920

Atlantic Avenue (New York City)

Atlantic Avenue is an important street in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. It stretches from the Brooklyn waterfront on the East River all the way to Jamaica, Queens. Atlantic Avenue runs parallel to Fulton Street for much of its course through Brooklyn, where it serves as a border between the neighborhoods of Prospect Heights and Fort Greene and between Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights.

Located at 40.6776, -73.9335 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Streets in Brooklyn, Streets in Queens

Fulton Street (Brooklyn)

Fulton Street, named after Robert Fulton, is a long east-west street in northern Brooklyn. A street of the same name in Manhattan was linked to this street by Fulton with his steam ferries. This street begins at the intersection of Adams Street and Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights. For a hundred years before the Fulton Ferry monopoly, Fulton Street was the Ferry Road through Jamaica Pass and, in the centuries before any ferry service, Indian path to the Hempstead Plains.

Located at 40.6792, -73.9281 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Streets in Brooklyn

Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Bedford-Stuyvesant is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Formed in 1930, the neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 3, Brooklyn Community Board 8, and Brooklyn Community Board 16. The neighborhood is patrolled by the NYPD's 79th and 81st precincts. In the City Council, the district is represented by Albert Vann of the 36th Council District.

Located at 40.6833, -73.9411 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Populated places in New York with African American majority populations

Franklin Avenue – Fulton Street (New York City Subway)

This article is about the station transfer complex between the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and the IND Fulton Street Line. For the transfer complex between the Franklin Avenue Shuttle and the IRT Eastern Parkway Line, see Franklin Avenue – Botanic Garden (New York City Subway). For the demolished station on the BMT Lexington Avenue Line, see Franklin Avenue (BMT Lexington Avenue Line).

Located at 40.6811, -73.9557 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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BMT Franklin Avenue Shuttle stations, IND Fulton Street Line stations, New York City Subway transfer stations, BMT Fulton Street Line stations, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1936, Railway stations opened in 1896

Kingston–Throop Avenues (IND Fulton Street Line)

Kingston–Throop Avenues is a local station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located on Fulton Street between Kingston and Throop Avenues in Weeksville, Brooklyn, it is served by the C train at all times except late nights, when it is replaced by the A train. This underground station, opened on April 9, 1936, has four tracks and two offset side platforms. The two center tracks are used by the A express train during daytime hours.

Located at 40.6799, -73.9406 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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IND Fulton Street Line stations, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1936

Brooklyn Children's Museum

The Brooklyn Children's Museum is a general purpose museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. Founded in 1899, it was the first museum in the United States and some believe, the world, to cater specifically to children and is unique in its location, predominantly a residential area. Housed in a multi-level underground gallery, the museum underwent an expansion and renovation to double its space, reopened on September 20, 2008, and became the first green museum in New York City.

Located at 40.6745, -73.9439 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Museums established in 1899, Museums in Brooklyn, Children's museums in New York, Works Progress Administration in New York, Institutions accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Myrtle Avenue (BMT Jamaica Line)

Myrtle Avenue (announced as Myrtle Avenue – Broadway on the R160s to distinguish it from the nearby Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues station) is a two-level express station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Broadway in Brooklyn, it is served by J and M trains at all times and the Z during rush hours in peak direction. All service is on the lower level of the station.

Located at 40.6969, -73.9353 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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BMT Jamaica Line stations, New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1888

Capitoline Grounds

The Capitoline Grounds, also known as Capitoline Skating Lake and Base Ball Ground, was a baseball park in Brooklyn, New York from 1864 to 1880. It was built to rival nearby Union Grounds, also in Brooklyn. The park was host to several local teams in its early history, but soon hosted the Atlantic of Brooklyn of the National Association of Base Ball Players. Many of organized baseball's earliest historical events took place at the park throughout the 1860s and early 1870s.

Located at 40.6828, -73.9486 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Defunct baseball venues, Sports venues in Brooklyn, Baseball venues in New York, Former sports venues in New York City, Demolished sports venues in the United States

Nostrand Avenue (LIRR station)

Nostrand Avenue is an elevated station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. Trains leave every 12-15 minutes during peak hours and 30 minutes during off peak hours until 11 p.m. The station resembles a typical elevated New York City Subway station and has white on black signage as found on the subway. Though originally built in 1877, the current elevated station was built between 1903 and 1905 and renovated in 2011.

Located at 40.6785, -73.9494 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Transportation in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1877, Long Island Rail Road stations

770 Eastern Parkway

770 Eastern Parkway, also known as simply "770", is the street address of the central headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, located on Eastern Parkway in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, in the United States of America. The building has been the center of the conflict between the Lubavitchers who believe in publicizing that the last Chabad leader, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, is the Messiah and those who do not.

Located at 40.669, -73.9429 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Chabad-Lubavitch (Hasidic dynasty), Hasidic Judaism in New York City, Jewish messianism, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Orthodox synagogues in New York City, Synagogues in Brooklyn, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Bedford, Brooklyn

Bedford is a community in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, centered approximately at the corner of modern-day Fulton Street and Franklin Avenue. Its name is better known today as part of the larger neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Bedford, in pre-American Revolutionary War times, was the first settlement to the east of the Village of Brooklyn, located on the Jamaica Turnpike to Jamaica, Queens.

Located at 40.6817, -73.9556 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Populated places in New York with African American majority populations

DeKalb Avenue

DeKalb Avenue is a street in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, with the majority of its length in Brooklyn. It runs from Woodward Avenue (Linden Hill Cemetery) in Ridgewood, Queens to Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Between Woodward Avenue and Bushwick Avenue, DeKalb Avenue is a two-way, two-lane street; between Bushwick Avenue and Fulton Street, it is one-way westbound. (Lafayette Avenue is the corresponding parallel one-way street eastbound.

Located at 40.6917, -73.9487 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Streets in Brooklyn

Utica Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)

Utica Avenue is an express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway. The tile color is Pomegranate red with a Tuscan red border. The station has been renovated with new old-fashioned light fixtures with modern sodium-vapor lamps in them. They are suspended on long rods from the high, vaulted ceilings. There is a free crossover. It is served by the A train at all times and the C train at all times except late nights. It has four tracks and two island platforms.

Located at 40.6792, -73.9291 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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IND Fulton Street Line stations, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1936

Nostrand Avenue (IND Fulton Street Line)

Nostrand Avenue is a two-level express station on the IND Fulton Street Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn. It is served by the A train at all times and the C train at all times except late nights.

Located at 40.6803, -73.9496 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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IND Fulton Street Line stations, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1936

Myrtle–Willoughby Avenues (IND Crosstown Line)

Myrtle–Willoughby Avenues is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Myrtle and Marcy Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the G train at all times. This underground station, opened on July 1, 1937, has two tracks and two side platforms. Both platforms have a light green trim line on a darker green border that is cut up into numerous sections due to the large name tablets, which have "MYRTLE - WILLOUGHBY AVE.

Located at 40.6946, -73.9491 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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IND Crosstown Line stations, New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1937

Bedford–Nostrand Avenues (IND Crosstown Line)

Bedford–Nostrand Avenues is a station on the IND Crosstown Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Lafayette Avenue between Bedford and Nostrand Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the G train at all times. This underground station, opened on July 1, 1937, has three tracks and two island platforms. The middle track is not normally used, being meant for the never built IND Second System.

Located at 40.6896, -73.9536 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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IND Crosstown Line stations, New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn, Railway stations opened in 1937

Eastern Parkway (Brooklyn)

This article refers to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, New York: there is also an Eastern Parkway in Louisville, Kentucky, also designed by the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted. Eastern Parkway U.S. National Register of Historic Places 250px Near New York Avenue in Crown Heights.

Located at 40.6691, -73.9371 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Streets in Brooklyn, National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn, New York City, Parkways in New York City, Frederick Law Olmsted works

Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn

Stuyvesant Heights is a neighborhood in north-central Brooklyn, a part of New York City settled in the mid-17th century before the borough of Brooklyn was incorporated as a city. The area, presently gentrifying, can boast of some of Brooklyn's most handsome and historic brownstones and grand old apartment buildings. Stuyvesant Heights is one of the four neighborhoods comprising the widely known enclave of Bedford–Stuyvesant. The other neighborhoods are Bedford, Ocean Hill, and Weeksville.

Located at 40.691, -73.934 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Populated places in New York with African American majority populations

Boys and Girls High School

Boys and Girls High School, the oldest public high school in Brooklyn, is a comprehensive high school in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. The 3,600 student body school is located at 1700 Fulton Street. Brooklyn's first public high school, the Central Grammar School (named "Central" rather than "Free" to avoid controversy over providing free "higher education" for poor children), opened, September 1878 in a rented building on Court & Livingston Streets.

Located at 40.679, -73.9315 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Public high schools in New York City, Schools in Brooklyn

Paul Robeson High School for Business and Technology

Paul Robeson High School for Business and Technology is a high school in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. It is a part of the New York City Department of Education. The school is named for Paul Robeson, a singer and civil rights activist.

Located at 40.6755, -73.939 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Public high schools in New York City, Schools in Brooklyn

Girls' High School

Girls' High School is an historically and architecturally notable public secondary school building located at 475 Nostrand Avenue in the Bedford–Stuyvesant, neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. It was built in 1886 and is the oldest public high school building in New York City that is still standing. The building was designed by James W. Naughton, Superintendent of Buildings for the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn.

Located at 40.6815, -73.9496 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Defunct schools in New York, Schools in Brooklyn, Landmarks in Brooklyn, School buildings completed in 1886

Alhambra Apartments

The Alhambra Apartments is an architecturally notable apartment building located on Nostrand Avenue in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The building was designed by Montrose Morris and built by developer Louis F. Seitz in 1889-90. It is an early example in the United States of a multiple-family building designed with large apartments for affluent tenants.

Located at 40.6814, -73.95 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Residential buildings in Brooklyn, Landmarks in Brooklyn, Residential buildings completed in 1890, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Pathways in Technology Early College High School

Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) is a New York City public high school that is set to open in September 2011. It was developed through a unique partnership between the IBM corporation, City University of New York - City Tech, and the New York City Department of Education. The school focuses on postsecondary pathways in the area of Information Technology, helping a diverse group of students enter into this highly competitive field.

Located at 40.6759, -73.939 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Our Lady of Victory Church (Brooklyn, New York)

The Church of Our Lady of Victory is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, located at Throop Avenue and McDonough Street, Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The parish was established in 1868.

Located at 40.6814, -73.9403 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Roman Catholic churches in New York, Religious organizations established in 1868, Churches in Brooklyn, , Roman Catholic churches completed in 1895, 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States, 1895 architecture