List of Brooklyn neighborhoods

By geographical region

Central Brooklyn

• Crown Heights
  • Weeksville
• Flatbush
  • Beverley Squares: Beverley Square East, Beverley Square West
  • Ditmas Park
  • East Flatbush
    • Farragut
    • Remsen Village
  • Fiske Terrace
  • Pigtown
  • Wingate
• Prospect Park area
  • Prospect Lefferts Gardens
  • Prospect Park South
  • Windsor Terrace
• Kensington
  • Ocean Parkway
  • Parkville

Eastern Brooklyn

• Brownsville
• Canarsie
• East New York
  • City Line
  • Cypress Hills
  • New Lots
  • Spring Creek
  • Starrett City
  • Highland Park

Northern Brooklyn

• Bedford–Stuyvesant
  • Bedford
  • Ocean Hill
  • Stuyvesant Heights
• Bushwick
  • Wyckoff Heights
• Greenpoint
  • Little Poland
• Williamsburg
  • East Williamsburg
  • Southside
  • South Williamsburg

Northwestern Brooklyn

• Brooklyn Heights
• Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Admiral's Row
• Cadman Plaza
• Clinton Hill
• Downtown Brooklyn
  • Bridge Plaza/RAMBO
• DUMBO
  • Fulton Ferry
• Fort Greene
• Prospect Heights
  • Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards
• Vinegar Hill
• South BrooklynSouth Brooklyn – takes its name from the geographical position of the original town of Brooklyn, which today includes the neighborhoods listed above under the heading "northwestern Brooklyn." It is not located in the southern part of the modern borough.The South Brooklyn Network
  • Boerum Hill
  • Carroll Gardens
    • Columbia Street Waterfront District
  • Cobble Hill
  • Gowanus
  • Park Slope
    • South Park Slope
    • Greenwood Heights
    • Park Slope Village
  • Red Hook

Southern Brooklyn

• Barren Island
• Bergen Beach and Georgetown
• Coney Island
  • Brighton Beach, also known as "Little Odessa" or "Little Russia"
    • West Brighton
  • Manhattan Beach
  • Sea Gate
• Sheepshead Bay and Madison
  • Homecrest
• Midwood
• Flatlands
• Gerritsen Beach
• Gravesend
  • White Sands
• Marine Park
• Mill Basin
• Plumb Beach

Southwestern Brooklyn

The southwestern portion of Brooklyn shares numbered streets and avenues starting from 36th Street to 101st Street and from 1st Avenue to 25th Avenue, passing through the neighborhoods listed below:

• Bay Ridge
  • Fort Hamilton
• Bensonhurst
  • Bath Beach
  • New Utrecht
• Borough Park
  • Mapleton lies mostly in Borough Park but its southern reaches are within Bensonhurst
• Dyker Heights
• Sunset Park
  • Chinatown

By historical town

The original Dutch settlement of what is now Brooklyn consisted of six towns with clearly defined borders. These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn. The towns were, clockwise from the north: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the middle. 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.

Bushwick

Annexed to Brooklyn in 1854.

• Bushwick
• Greenpoint
• Williamsburg (separated from Bushwick in 1840, annexed to Brooklyn in 1854)

Brooklyn

• Bedford–Stuyvesant
• Boerum Hill
• Brooklyn Heights
• Brownsville
• Carroll Gardens
• City Line
• Clinton Hill
• Cobble Hill
• Crown Heights
• Cypress Hills
• Downtown Brooklyn
• DUMBO
• East New York
• Fort Greene
• Gowanus
• Greenwood Heights
• Highland Park
• New Lots (separated from Flatbush in 1852, annexed to Brooklyn in 1886)
• Ocean Hill
• Park Slope
• Prospect Heights
• RAMBO
• Spring Creek
• Starrett City
• Stuyvesant Heights
• Sunset Park
• Vinegar Hill
• Weeksville
• Windsor Terrace
• Wingate

Flatlands

Annexed to Brooklyn in 1896.

• Bergen Beach
• Canarsie
• Flatlands
• Georgetown
• Marine Park
• Midwood (SE Quarter)
• Mill Basin

Gravesend

Annexed to Brooklyn in 1894.

• Brighton Beach
• Coney Island
• Gerritsen Beach
• Gravesend
• Homecrest
• Madison
• Midwood
• Manhattan Beach
• Plum Beach
• Seagate
• Sheepshead Bay

New Utrecht

Annexed to Brooklyn in 1894.

• Bath Beach
• Bay Ridge
• Bensonhurst
• Borough Park
• Dyker Heights
• Mapleton
• New Utrecht

Flatbush

Annexed to Brooklyn in 1894.

• Ditmas Park
• East Flatbush
• Farragut
• Fiske Terrace
• Flatbush
• Kensington
• Prospect Lefferts Gardens
• Prospect Park South

Bushwick====to the north and the northeast lies the Newtown Creek and the border with the borough of [[Queens]]. To the South, across a border which follows Washington Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, and Broadway, lies the modern neighborhoods of the historical Town of Brooklyn. The [[East River]] comprises the town's western border.====Brooklyn====To the north, across Washington Avenue, Lafayette Avenue, and Broadway, lies the historical town of Bushwick; to the South, across Greenwood Cemetery, Prospect Park, and Empire Boulevard, lies the historical Town of Flatbush; to the southwest, across 60th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, lies the historical Town of New Utrecht; and to the southwest, across Rockaway Parkway, Linden Boulevard, and the Fresh Creek Basin, lies the historical Town of Flatlands.====Flatlands====To the east lies [[Jamaica Bay]]; to the south lies [[Floyd Bennett Field]] and the [[Rockaway Inlet]]. The historical Town of Gravesend lies to the southwest, across Ocean Avenue and a line that roughly follows Olean Street and Stuart Street; the historical Town of Flatbush lies to the northwest, across Ditmas Avenue/Avenue D; and the historical Town of Brooklyn lies to the northeast, across Rockaway Parkway, Linden Boulevard, and the Fresh Creek Basin.====Gravesend====To the northwest, across Bay Parkway, lies the historical Town of New Utrecht; to the northeast lies the historical Town of Flatlands. Gravesend Bay and Sheepshead Bay lie to the southwest and southeast, respectively, and the area is pierced by the east and west inlets of the former [[Coney Island Creek]]. South of Gravesend lies the [[Atlantic Ocean]].====New Utrecht====To the northwest lies the Upper New York Harbor and to the southwest lies the Lower New York Harbor; the Verrazanno-Narrows Bridge connects the town to Staten Island in the west. To the north, across 65th Street and Fort Hamilton Avenue, lies the historical Town of Brooklyn; to the northeast, across 38th Street and Dahill Road, lies the historical Town of Flatbush; and to the southeast, across Bay Parkway, lies the historical Town of Gravesend.====Flatbush====The border of the historical town follows (roughly) Greenwood Cemetery, Prospect Park, Empire Boulevard, East New York Avenue, Rockaway Parkway, Ditmas Avenue/Avenue D, 18th Avenue, Dahill Road, and 38th Street.-->

References

References

1. (3 December 2013). "Windsor Terrace: Less Way Station, More Destination". The New York Times.
2. (29 May 2019). "Why Violence is Spiking in Pockets of Brooklyn, Even as the City Gets Safer". The New York Times.
3. Gergely, Julia. [https://www.jta.org/2022/02/28/ny/in-brooklyns-little-odessa-jews-from-ukraine-and-russia-find-the-war-terrifying "In Brooklyn's 'Little Odessa,' Jews from Ukraine and Russia find the war 'terrifying'"], [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]], February 28, 2022. Accessed March 2, 2022. "In Brighton Beach, New York, a community in Brooklyn known to many as "Little Odessa," named after the port city in Ukraine, many Jews are struggling to navigate the fear and uncertainty that has wracked the community as Russia wages an unprovoked war on their former country."
4. Bohlen, Celestine. (2002-03-08). "A Little Russia On the Hudson". The New York Times.