Cadman Plaza

Cadman Plaza is a park located on the border of the Brooklyn Heights and neighborhoods in , . Named for Reverend Doctor Samuel Parkes Cadman, a renowned minister in the Brooklyn Congregational Church, it is built on land reclaimed by condemnation in 1935 and was named as a park in 1939.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Brooklyn Bridge and Sands Street station.

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The is a cable-stayed suspension bridge in , spanning the between the boroughs of and . Opened on May 24, 1883, the was the first fixed crossing of the East River.

Historic site
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Sands Street was a station on the demolished BMT Myrtle Avenue Line. It was a large complex with two levels. The lower level served trains going to Park Row in via the Brooklyn Bridge Elevated Line.

Metro station
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The , also signed as High Street–Brooklyn Bridge, and also referred to as Brooklyn Bridge Plaza and Cranberry Street, is a station on the IND Eighth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the borough of . It encompasses two sections: one situated between the and , which connect Brooklyn to across the , and another extending eastward from the Manhattan Bridge to the area.

Neighborhood
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is a residential neighborhood within the borough of . The neighborhood is bounded by Old Fulton Street near the on the north, Cadman Plaza West on the east, Atlantic Avenue on the south, and the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway or the on the west.

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is in . In addition to the downtown area proper, it includes Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and the Navy Yard.

Cadman Plaza

Latitude
40.69871° or 40° 41′ 55″ north
Longitude
-73.99069° or 73° 59′ 27″ west
Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)
Open location code
87G8M2X5+FP
Geo­Names ID
5111037
Wiki­data ID
Q4251046
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Satellite Map

Discover Cadman Plaza from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“Cadman Plaza” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Cadman Plaza”
  • Cebuano: “Cadman Plaza”
  • Chinese: “卡德曼廣場”
  • German: “Cadman Plaza”
  • Japanese: “カドマン・プラザ”
  • Japanese: “キャドマン・プラザ・ウエスト”
  • Russian: “Кэдман плаза, Бруклин”
  • Russian: “Кэдман-Плаза”
  • Spanish: “Cadman Plaza”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Fulton Ferry and Vinegar Hill.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Brooklyn War Memorial and Walt Whitman Park.

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