Fort Hamilton
Fort Hamilton is a United States Army installation in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: GK tramrunner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Neighborhood with 29,000 residents
- Description: neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City
- Also known as: “Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn)”, “Fort Hamilton (neighborhood)”, “Fort Hamilton (New York, N.Y.)”, “Fort Hamilton Brooklyn”, and “Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Verrazano–Narrows Bridge and Bay Ridge–95th Street station.
Verrazano–Narrows Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, United States. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Bay Ridge–95th Street station
Metro station
Photo: Aio Eo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bay Ridge–95th Street station is the southern terminal station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Despite the name, the station is located in the neighborhood of Fort Hamilton at the intersection of 95th Street and Fourth Avenue in southwestern Brooklyn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights.
Bay Ridge
Neighborhood
Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Sunset Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the east, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway to the west, and Fort Hamilton Army Base and the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge to the south.
Dyker Heights
Neighborhood
Dyker Heights is a predominantly residential neighborhood in the southwest corner of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is on a hill between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Gravesend Bay.
Fort Wadsworth
Neighborhood
Photo: whomever, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fort Wadsworth is a former United States military installation on Staten Island in New York City, situated on The Narrows which divide New York Bay into Upper and Lower bays, a natural point for defense of the Upper Bay, Manhattan, and beyond. Fort Wadsworth is situated 1½ miles southwest of Fort Hamilton.
Fort Hamilton
- Category: locality
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.61872° or 40° 37′ 7″ northLongitude
-74.0332° or 74° 1′ 60″ westPopulation
29,000Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)Open location code
87G7JX98+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 158905979OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodGeoNames ID
5117663Wikidata ID
Q5471278
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Fort Hamilton” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Fort Hamilton”
- Slovenian: “Fort Hamilton”
- Spanish: “Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn)”
- Spanish: “Fort Hamilton Brooklyn”
- Spanish: “Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn”
- Spanish: “Fort Hamilton”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Hamilton”. Photo: GK tramrunner, CC BY-SA 3.0.