Wingate is a

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in the north central portion of the

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. The area is bordered by

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to the west, Crown Heights to the north and east, and

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to the south. Wingate is bounded by

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to the north, Troy Avenue to the east, Winthrop Street to the south, and New York Avenue to the west. The area is part of Brooklyn Community District 9.Brooklyn Community Boards

. Accessed December 31, 2007. It is sometimes considered part of Crown Heights, East Flatbush, and/or Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The neighborhood was originally named Pigtown. It was so named because it was the location of several major

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s that supplied Brooklyn. Pigtown was at the southern periphery of the

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where it bordered the

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of Flatbush. On modern maps it is bounded on the north by Empire Boulevard (formerly Malbone Street), on the south by Midwood Street, on the east by Albany Avenue and on the west by

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. Future

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and his criminal brother

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were born and raised in Pigtown.as was Rudy Giuliani, who spent his first seven years there. The neighborhood was renamed to Wingate in the 2000s by real estate developers enjoying the massive influx of new people to Brooklyn. It is named for the now-defunct George W. Wingate High School, locally called "The Banjo School" because of its shape.

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