Sumner Houses

Sumner Houses is a residential area in Brooklyn, New York. Sumner Houses is situated nearby to the historic site Sumner Avenue station, as well as near the hospital Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Sumner Avenue station and Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center.

Sumner Avenue station

Historic site

The Sumner Avenue station was a station on the demolished section of the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line. The station was located at the intersection of Myrtle Avenue and Sumner Avenues in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The station opened in 1889, and closed in 1969. Sumner Avenue station is situated 390 feet south of Sumner Houses.

Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center

Hospital

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

Woodhull Medical Center, branded as NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, is a health care system located in the Bedford–Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center is situated 930 feet northwest of Sumner Houses.

Flushing Avenue station

Metro station

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

The Flushing Avenue station is a local station on the BMT Jamaica Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Flushing Avenue and Broadway in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, it is served by the J train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction and the M train at all times except late nights. Flushing Avenue station is situated 1,000 feet north of Sumner Houses.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush and Bushwick.

Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush

Photo: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

Bushwick

Quarter

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Bushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bound by the neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, to the northeast; Williamsburg to the northwest; the cemeteries of Highland Park to the southeast; and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the south and southwest.

Williamsburg

Photo: FieldMarine, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Williamsburg is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, as little as one subway stop away from Manhattan, and is bordered to the north by Greenpoint, to the east by Bushwick and to the south by Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Sumner Houses

Type: Residential area
Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.69744° or 40° 41′ 51″ north

Longitude

-73.94077° or 73° 56′ 27″ west

Elevation

59 feet (18 metres)

Operator

NYCHA

Open location code

87G8M3W5+XM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 389457509

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

GeoNames ID

6332027

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