East New York
East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough line to the north; the Queens…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Quarter with 173,000 residents
- Description: residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, United States
- Also known as: “Oostwoud” and “Starrett City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include East New York station and New Lots Avenue.
East New York station
Railway station
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
East New York is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in the East New York and Ocean Hill neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, where that branch passes through the Jamaica Pass.
New Lots Avenue
Metro station
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
The New Lots Avenue station is the eastern terminal of the IRT New Lots Line of the New York City Subway. Located in East New York, Brooklyn, it is the railroad southern terminal for the 3 train at all times except late nights, when the 4 train takes over service.
Highland Park
Park
Highland Park is a park located in Brooklyn, New York City, on the border with Queens. Established in 1901, Highland Park borders Cypress Hills, Brooklyn—part of the East New York neighborhood—to its south, and it abuts Glendale and Ridgewood, Queens, to its north.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gateway National Recreation Area and East Brooklyn.
Gateway National Recreation Area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Gateway National Recreation Area is a national recreation area in Metro New York. This 26,607 acre park has four separate areas located in three boroughs of New York City and on Sandy Hook in central New Jersey.
East Brooklyn
Photo: Multiplicitous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Brooklyn encompasses Cypress Hills, East New York, Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Flatlands, Mill Basin, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, and Barren Island.
Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush
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Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush are in Brooklyn. In addition to the two aforementioned neighborhoods, this travel guide covers Crown Heights, Lefferts Gardens, Brownsville, East Flatbush, and Midwood.
East New York
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6668° or 40° 40′ 0″ northLongitude
-73.8824° or 73° 52′ 57″ westPopulation
173,000Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
US 5ENOpen location code
87G8M489+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 158854291OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“East New York” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “East New York”
- Chinese: “东纽约”
- Chinese: “東紐約 (布魯克林)”
- Chinese: “東紐約”
- Chinese: “東紐約警事”
- Dutch: “East New York”
- Esperanto: “Orienta Nov-Jorko”
- Finnish: “East New York”
- French: “East New York”
- German: “East New York”
- Hebrew: “מזרח ניו יורק”
- Italian: “East New York”
- Japanese: “イースト・ニューヨーク”
- Japanese: “イーストニューヨーク”
- Polish: “East New York”
- Portuguese: “East New York”
- Russian: “Ист-Нью-Йорк”
- Slovenian: “East New York”
- Spanish: “East New York Brooklyn”
- Spanish: “East New York”
- Spanish: “Spring Creek Brooklyn”
- Spanish: “Spring Creek”
- Turkish: “East New York, Brooklyn”
- Turkish: “East New York”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as New Lots and City Line.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include New Lots Plaza and Elton Playground.
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