Kensington
Kensington is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located south of Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. Kensington and Parkville are bordered by the Prospect Park South and Ditmas Park subsections of Flatbush to the east; Windsor Terrace to the north; Borough Park to the west; and Midwood to the south.- Neighborhood with 39,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 46 feet (14 metres)
- Description: neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn
- Also known as“Kensington, Brooklyn”“Kensington, New York City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prospect Park and Kensington Dog Run.
Cortelyou Library
Library
Cortelyou Library is a public library in Flatbush…
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prospect Park South and Albemarle–Kenmore Terraces Historic District.
Prospect Park South
Neighborhood
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Windsor Terrace
Neighborhood
Windsor Terrace is a small residential neighborhood…
Kensington
- Category: locality
- Location
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Latitude
40.64622° or 40° 38′ 46″ north
Longitude
-73.97069° or 73° 58′ 15″ west
Open location code
87G8J2WH+FP
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Kensington” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kensington”
- Aragonese: “Kensington”
- Arpitan: “Kensington”
- Asturian: “Kensington”
- Basque: “Kensington”
- Bavarian: “Kensington”
- Breton: “Kensington”
- Catalan: “Kensington”
- Chinese: “肯辛頓”
- Corsican: “Kensington”
- Croatian: “Kensington”
- Czech: “Kensington”
- Danish: “Kensington”
- Dutch: “Kensington”
- Esperanto: “Kensington”
- Estonian: “Kensington”
- Finnish: “Kensington”
- French: “Kensington”
- Friulian: “Kensington”
- Galician: “Kensington”
- German: “Kensington”
- Greek: “Κένσινγκτον”
- Hebrew: “קנזינגטון”
- Hungarian: “Kensington”
- Icelandic: “Kensington”
- Ido: “Kensington”
- Indonesian: “Kensington”
- Interlingua: “Kensington”
- Interlingue: “Kensington”
- Irish: “Kensington”
- Italian: “Kensington”
- Japanese: “ケンジントン (ブルックリン)”
- Jèrriais: “Kensington”
- Kongo: “Kensington”
- Ligurian: “Kensington”
- Limburgan: “Kensington”
- Low German: “Kensington”
- Luxembourgish: “Kensington”
- Malagasy: “Kensington”
- Malay: “Kensington”
- Minangkabau: “Kensington”
- Neapolitan: “Kensington”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kensington”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kensington”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kensington”
- Picard: “Kensington”
- Piemontese: “Kensington”
- Polish: “Kensington”
- Portuguese: “Kensington”
- Romanian: “Kensington”
- Romansh: “Kensington”
- Russian: “Кенсингтон”
- Sardinian: “Kensington”
- Scots: “Kensington”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Kensington”
- Serbian: “Kensington”
- Sicilian: “Kensington”
- Slovak: “Kensington”
- Slovenian: “Kensington”
- Spanish: “Kensington (Brooklyn)”
- Spanish: “Kensington”
- Swahili: “Kensington”
- Swedish: “Kensington”
- Swiss German: “Kensington”
- Turkish: “Kensington”
- Venetian: “Kensington”
- Vietnamese: “Kensington”
- Vlaams: “Kensington”
- Volapük: “Kensington”
- Walloon: “Kensington”
- Welsh: “Kensington”
- Wolof: “Kensington”
- Zulu: “Kensington”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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