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Barclays Center ( / ˈbɑːrkliz / BAR-kleez) [9] is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The arena is home to the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association and the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association. [10] The arena also hosts concerts, conventions and other sporting and ...
Caledonian Hospital opened in 1910, merged with the 1840s-founded Brooklyn Hospital in 1982 and closed in 2003. Pre-merger, Brooklyn had 444 beds and Caledonian 209. Caledonian's seven-story structure subsequently became a "luxury rental with 120 units." History
Marine Park is a public park located in the neighborhood of Marine Park in Brooklyn, New York. Its 798 acres (3.2 km 2) surround the westernmost inlet of Jamaica Bay.Most of the land for Marine Park was donated to New York City to be turned into public park land by the Whitney family in 1920 and by Frederic B. Pratt and Alfred Tredway White, who jointly donated 150 acres (0.61 km 2) in 1917.
The west side of the Christian Cultural Center. / 40.650820; -73.888337. The Christian Cultural Center (CCC) is a non-denominational Christian megachurch located in the Starrett City section of Brooklyn, New York City, with a satellite campus in Smithtown on Long Island. It is the largest Evangelical church in New York City.
Ebinger's. Ebinger's was a bakery in Brooklyn, New York that invented Blackout cake. [1] The original location was opened by George and Catherine Ebinger in 1898 [2] on Flatbush Avenue near Cortelyou Street. [3] Contemporaries included other German bakeries such as Drake's and Entenmann's. [4]
Brooklyn Jewish Hospital and Medical Center. / 40.675551°N 73.958372°W / 40.675551; -73.958372. The Brooklyn Jewish Hospital and Medical Center was an academic, sectarian hospital in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights in Central Brooklyn. It merged with St. John's Episcopal Hospital to form Interfaith Medical Center in 1983.
The search for Historic Weeksville began in 1968 in a Pratt Institute workshop on Brooklyn and New York City neighborhoods led by historian James Hurley. After reading of Weeksville in The Eastern District of Brooklyn, a 1912 book by Brooklyn historian Eugene Armbruster, Hurley and Joseph Haynes, a local resident and pilot, consulted old maps and flew over the area in an airplane in search of ...
The Boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that compose New York City. The boroughs are the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York: The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens ...