Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape with a population of 10,941 people. It lies to the north of Maitland, east of the Atlantic Ocean and Paarden Eiland, and west of Air Force Base Ysterplaat. The Black River flows through a section of Brooklyn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: place in Western Cape, South Africa
- Also known as: “Brooklyn, Cape Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Groote Schuur Hospital and Salt River.
Groote Schuur Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Danie van der Merwe, CC BY 2.0.
Groote Schuur Hospital is a public teaching hospital situated on the slopes of Devil's Peak in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. It was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human-to-human heart transplant took place on the 3rd December 1967, conducted by surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky. Groote Schuur Hospital is situated 4 km southwest of Brooklyn.
Salt River
Railway station
Photo: MB-one, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Salt River railway station is a Metrorail railway station in Salt River, Cape Town. It is the second station from the Cape Town terminus on the old main line to Bellville, and the junction where the Southern Line branches from the main line.
Maitland Secondary School
School
The Western Cape Education Department is the department of the Government of the Western Cape responsible for primary and secondary education within the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Maitland and Ndabeni.
Maitland
Suburb
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maitland is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. Maitland is situated along a number of important transport networks connecting the Cape Town city bowl to the rest of the city.
Ndabeni
Suburb
Ndabeni is an industrial suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, mainly occupied by light industries such as textiles and clothing. It is located about 6 km east of Cape Town city centre and is serviced by a railway station. Ndabeni is situated 2½ km southeast of Brooklyn.
Salt River
Suburb
Salt River is a suburb of Cape Town, located near Table Bay, to the east of Cape Town's central business district. Salt River is served by a railway station of the same name, and has the postcode 7925. Salt River is situated 3 km southwest of Brooklyn.
Brooklyn
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.90889° or 33° 54′ 32″ southLongitude
18.47917° or 18° 28′ 45″ eastElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Open location code
4FRW3FRH+CMOpenStreetMap ID
node 260310431OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Brooklyn” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Brooklyn, Kaapstad”
- Asturian: “Brooklyn, Cape Town”
- Italian: “Brooklyn (Città del Capo)”
- Italian: “Brooklyn”
- Pedi: “Brooklyn, Cape Town”
- Turkish: “Brooklyn”
- Xhosa: “Brooklyn, Cape Town”
- Zulu: “Brooklyn, Cape Town”
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