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Third Avenue (Brooklyn)
Third Avenue is a street in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It runs parallel to Fourth Avenue for most of its length, and it also runs under the Gowanus Expressway from the Prospect Expressway to 65th Street. It has been mostly industrial for most of its existence, though the stretch of Third Avenue from Prospect Expressway to Downtown Brooklyn has recently undergone gentrification. Transportation The following bus routes serve Third Avenue: * The serves the corridor south of Atlantic Avenue, with Bay Ridge service running from Bergen Street to Marine Avenue. * The Downtown Brooklyn-bound makes limited-stops on the corridor north of Prospect Avenue. * The run non-stop on the Gowanus Expressway while parallel to Third Avenue, with the X27/37 exiting the expressway to continue on Third until Bay Ridge Avenue. Manhattan service makes two stops at Senator and 65th Streets, and Bay Ridge service is absent from 65th to Wakeman Place, also running on another portion from S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gowanus, Brooklyn
Gowanus ( ) is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 6, Brooklyn Community District 6. Gowanus is bounded by Wyckoff Street on the north, Fourth Avenue (Brooklyn), Fourth Avenue on the east, the Interstate 278, Gowanus Expressway to the south, and Bond Street to the west. History In 1636, Gowanus Bay – named after Gauwane (Gouwane, "the sleeper"), a Canarsee Indian – was the site of the first settlement by Dutch farmers in what is now Brooklyn. The ponds of Gowanus meadowlands served to drive early settlers' tide-powered gristmills which were situated along the Gowanus Creek. During the American Revolutionary War, Gowanus was the scene of fighting in the Battle of Long Island and American soldiers positioned themselves in Gowanus Heights (now Park Slope), where they had full view of the British ships as they made landfall in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
65th Street (Brooklyn)
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65th Street may refer to: New York City * 65th Street (IRT Second Avenue Line), * 65th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line) * 65th Street Terminal (BMT Fifth Avenue Line) Cleveland * West 65th–Lorain station See also *65th Street Yard The 65th Street Yard, also Bay Ridge Rail Yard, is a rail yard on the Upper New York Bay in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Equipped with two transfer bridges which allow rail cars to be loaded and unloaded onto car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City Designated Landmark
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is the New York City agency charged with administering the city's Landmarks Preservation Law. The LPC is responsible for protecting New York City's architecturally, historically, and culturally significant buildings and sites by granting them landmark or historic district status, and regulating them after designation. It is the largest municipal preservation agency in the nation. , the LPC has designated more than 37,800 landmark properties in all five boroughs. Most of these are concentrated in historic districts, although there are over a thousand individual landmarks, as well as numerous interior and scenic landmarks. Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. first organized a preservation committee in 1961, and the following year, created the LPC. The LPC's power was greatly strengthened after the Landmarks Law was passed in April 1965, one and a half years after the destruction of Pennsylvania Station. The LPC has been invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somers Brothers Tinware Factory
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Somers may refer to: Places In Australia *Somers, Victoria In the United States *Somers, Connecticut, a town **Somers (CDP), Connecticut, the central village in the town **Somers Historic District, in the center of the village *Somers, Iowa *Somers, Montana *Somers, New York *Somers Point, New Jersey *Somers, Wisconsin, a village *Somers (town), Wisconsin, a town Other uses *Somers (surname) * USS ''Somers'' * Somers Limited, financial corporation on the Bermuda Stock Exchange. See also *Sommers Sommers (; ; ) is an islet and a lighthouse in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea, just outside the Gulf of Vyborg, about 19 kilometres south of Virolahti, Finland, but it is now possessed by Russia. The lightho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York And Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building
The Coignet Stone Company Building (also called the Pippen Building) is a historical structure in the Gowanus, Brooklyn, Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, at the intersection of Third Street and Third Avenue (Brooklyn), Third Avenue. Designed by architects William Field and Son and constructed between 1872 and 1873, it is the city's oldest remaining concrete building. It is the last remaining structure of a five-acre concrete factory complex built for the Coignet Agglomerate Company along the Gowanus Canal. The building has a two-story cast-stone facade above a raised basement. It was created with a type of concrete patented by Frenchman François Coignet in the 1850s and manufactured at the Gowanus factory. The Coignet Agglomerate Company, for which it was erected, was the first United States firm to manufacture Coignet stone. Despite the popularity of Coignet stone at the time construction, the Coignet Agglomerate Company completely shuttered in 1882. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Sunset Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the east, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway to the west, and Fort Hamilton Army Base and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to the south. The section of Bay Ridge south of 86th Street is sometimes considered part of a sub-neighborhood called Fort Hamilton. Bay Ridge was formerly the westernmost portion of the town of New Utrecht, comprising two smaller villages: Yellow Hook to the north and Fort Hamilton to the south. Yellow Hook was named for the color of the soil and was renamed Bay Ridge in December 1853 to avoid negative connotations with yellow fever at the time; the name Bay Ridge was chosen based on the local geography. Bay Ridge became developed as a rural summer resort during the mid-19th century. The arrival of the New York City Subway's Fourth Avenue Line (present-day ) in 1916 led to its development as a residenti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifth Avenue Line (Brooklyn Elevated)
The Fifth Avenue Line, also called the Fifth Avenue Elevated or Fifth Avenue–Bay Ridge Line, was an elevated rail line in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. It ran above Hudson Avenue, Flatbush Avenue, Fifth Avenue, 38th Street, and Third Avenue from Downtown Brooklyn south to Bay Ridge. The portion on Third Avenue was called the Third Avenue Elevated to distinguish service from the elevated BMT West End Line; it was separate from the elevated IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan and the Bronx. History The Union Elevated Railroad Company, leased by the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad, built the Hudson Avenue Elevated, a branch of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad's Lexington Avenue Elevated. This line split from the Brooklyn elevated at a junction at Hudson and Park Avenues (where exit 29 of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway is now located), and traveled south above Hudson Avenue to the Long Island Rail Road's Flatbush Avenue terminal. Trains began operating between Fulton Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge is a cable-stayed suspension bridge in New York City, spanning the East River between the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Opened on May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the East River. It was also the List of longest suspension bridge spans#History of longest suspension spans, longest suspension bridge in the world when opened, with a main span of and a deck above Mean High Water. The span was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge or the East River Bridge but was officially renamed the Brooklyn Bridge in 1915. Proposals for a bridge connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn were first made in the early 19th century; these plans evolved into what is now the Brooklyn Bridge, designed by John A. Roebling. The project's chief engineer, his son Washington Roebling, contributed further design work, assisted by the latter's wife, Emily Warren Roebling. Construction started in 1870 and was overseen by the New York Bridge Comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn
Fort Hamilton is a United States Army installation in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. It is one of several posts that are part of the region which is headquartered by the Military District of Washington. Its mission is to provide the New York metropolitan area with military installation support for the Army National Guard and the United States Army Reserve. The original fort was completed in 1831, with major additions made in the 1870s and 1900s. However, all defenses except about half of the original fort have been demolished or buried. History On July 4, 1776, a small American battery (the Narrows Fort) on the site of today's Fort Hamilton (the east side of the Narrows) fired into one of the British men-of-war convoying troops to suppress the American Revolution. HMS ''Asia'' suffered damage and casualties, but opposition to the immense fleet could be little more than symbolic. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Streetcar Lines In Brooklyn
The following streetcar lines once operated in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. History The history of surface line operation in Brooklyn is long and very complicated, and is best presented under one of the following sub-articles which maintain the proper family tree for each of the lines listed below. These subsidiary articles are: ;BRT/BMT subsidiaries * Brooklyn and Queens Transit Corporation, the main company after 1929 * Brooklyn City Railroad * Brooklyn Heights Railroad * Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad * Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad * Coney Island and Gravesend Railway * Nassau Electric Railroad ;Companies not owned by the BRT/BMT or jointly owned * Brooklyn and North River Railroad * Bush Terminal Railroad * Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay and Ocean Avenue Railroad * Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line * Marine Railway * Maspeth Railroad and Bridge Company * Van Brunt Street and Erie Basin Railroad BMT Almost every surface line in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Third Avenue Line (Brooklyn Surface)
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates a number of bus routes in Brooklyn, New York, United States; one minor route is privately operated under a city franchise. Many of them are the direct descendants of streetcar lines (see list of streetcar lines in Brooklyn); the ones that started out as bus routes were almost all operated by the Brooklyn Bus Corporation, a subsidiary of the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, until the New York City Board of Transportation took over on June 5, 1940. Of the 55 local Brooklyn routes operated by the New York City Transit Authority, roughly 35 are the direct descendants of one or more streetcar lines, and most of the others were introduced in full or in part as new bus routes by the 1930s. Only the B32, the eastern section of the B82 (then the B50), the B83, and the B84 were created by New York City Transit from scratch, in 1978, 1966, and 2013, respectively. List of routes This table gives details for the routes pref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
B65 (New York City Bus)
The Bergen Street Line is a public transit line in Brooklyn, New York City, running westbound mostly along Bergen Street, as well as eastbound on Dean Street (as part of a one-way pair), between Downtown Brooklyn and Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, Ocean Hill (earlier Red Hook, Brooklyn, Red Hook to City Line, Brooklyn, City Line). Originally a streetcar line, it is now the B65 bus route, operated by the New York City Transit Authority. The B65 is based out of the East New York Depot in East New York, Brooklyn. Route description The B65 starts at Boerum Place and Joralemon Street. The eastbound route runs down Boerum Place and makes a left at Atlantic Avenue. It runs down Atlantic Avenue to 3rd Avenue and proceeds to make a right turn and run down Third Avenue for two blocks before turning left on Dean Street. The route then proceeds east on Dean Street until it reaches Rochester Avenue and then turns right on Rochester Avenue. The route then takes another left at St. Marks Avenue. It runs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
