Like many parts of NYC, Brownsville and East New York have been occupied by many nationalities. Pitkin, a Connecticut merchant beginning in 1835 at the time, this was the easternmost town in greater New York City, though not yet a part of the city proper. Though the Dutch established some homes and farms in Brownsville and East New York in the 1700s, the area did not gel as a community until the early-to-middle 1800s. The southeast section of East New York is called New Lots after Dutch farmers who were getting crowded out in Flatbush struck east and formed new community here in the 1670s. In the north, Brownsville runs from East New York Avenue, on the Bedford-Stuyvesant border, south to its border with Canarsie at the railroad East New York begins at the railroad and continues east to the Queens line at Ozone Park, with the neighborhoods of Highland Park and Cypress Hills to its north and Jamaica Bay on its south. The second was three years ago and I was there a third time in June 2005.īrownsville and East New York are neighborhoods of eastern Brooklyn delineated in great part by the Bay Ridge branch of the Long Island Rail Road. The first was a bike ride in 1975, when I was taking a short cut through from my high school to Kings Highway, which I cruised back to Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge where I lived.
For example, this was my third time ever in Brownsville and its neighbor East New York on bike or foot. But there are some parts of the city where I’ve trafficked very little. I never tire of Coney, and I always seem to be in the Long Island City– Astoria area (the theme this year is Queens, which we’re covering from west to east as the year goes on) lower Manhattan and the Lower East Side hold a fascination and in Staten Island it seems I’m always exploring the semi-wild areas in Great Kills and Eltingville. HERE are some NYC neighborhoods I find myself in again, again and again.
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