Brooklyn Neighborhoods:

Bath Beach , Bay Ridge , Bedford Stuyvesant , Bensonhurst , Boerum Hill , Borough Park , Brighton Beach , Brooklyn Heights , Brownsville , Bushwick , Canarsie , Carroll Gardens , City Line , Clinton Hill , Cobble Hill , Columbia Street Waterfront District , Coney Island , Crown Heights , Cypress Hills , Ditmas Park , Downtown , DUMBO , Dyker Heights , East New York , East Williamsburg , Flatbush , Flatlands , Fort Greene , Fort Hamilton , Georgetown , Gerritson Beach , Gowanus , Gravesend , Greenpoint , Highland Park , Kensington , Manhattan Beach , Manhattan Terrace , Marine Park , Midwood , Mill Basin , Mill Island , New Lots , Ocean Hill , Ocean Parkway , Paedergat Basin , Park Slope , Prospect Heights , Prospect Lefferts Gardens , Prospect Park South , Red Hook , Remsen Village , Sea Gate , Sheepshead Bay , Spring Creek , Starret City , Sunset Park , Vinegar Hill , Weeksville , Williamsburg North Side , Williamsburg South Side , Windsor Terrace , Wingate

Brooklyn has many well-defined neighborhoods, many of which developed from distinct towns and villages that date back to its founding in the Dutch colonial era in the early 1600s.

About our Brooklyn

Today, Downtown Brooklyn is the third-largest central business district in New York City, after Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan. It has many commercial towers and a rapidly increasing number of residential buildings.

The northwestern neighborhoods between the Brooklyn Bridge and Prospect Park, including Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Clinton Hill, Vinegar Hill, DUMBO (an acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass"), Fort Greene, Gowanus, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Red Hook, are characterized by many nineteenth century brick townhouses and brownstones. These neighborhoods include some of the most gentrified and affluent neighborhoods in Brooklyn, along with ample subway lines, cultural institutions, and high-end restaurants.

Further North along the East River lie Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Traditionally working class communities with a vibrant cultural mix, many artists and hipsters have moved into the area since the late 1990s. Further changing the area, the city completed an extensive rezoning of the Brooklyn waterfront in 2005 which will allow for many new residential condominiums. As prices have risen, redevelopment has moved eastward away from the waterfront into Bushwick along the L subway line.

Central and southern Brooklyn contains many more architecturally and culturally distinct neighborhoods, some of which grew rapidly in the late 19th and early 20th century as upwardly-mobile immigrants moved out of tenement buildings in Manhattan neighborhoods like the Lower East Side. Borough Park is largely Orthodox Jewish; Bedford-Stuyvesant is the largest black neighborhood in the country; Bensonhurst is historically Italian. Dyker Heights is an affluent Italian neighborhood. East Flatbush and Fort Greene is home to a large number of middle-class black professionals. Brighton Beach is home to many Russians. Since 1990, Brooklyn has seen a rise in new immigration to neighborhoods like Sunset Park, home to flourishing Mexican and Chinese American communities.

Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. An independent city until its consolidation into New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with nearly 2.5 million residents. Brooklyn is coterminous with Kings County, which is the most populous county in New York State, and the second most densely populated county in the United States (after New York County, which is the borough of Manhattan).