Kings
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Prospect Park and Brooklyn Museum.
Prospect Park
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prospect Park is in Brooklyn. It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Park South.
Brooklyn Museum
Museum
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The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects.
City University of New York Brooklyn College
University
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Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls nearly 14,000 students on a 35-acre campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall 2023.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Southwest Brooklyn and Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush.
Southwest Brooklyn
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Southwest Brooklyn is a part of Brooklyn, New York City that encompasses the neighborhoods of Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton, Kensington, Parkville, and Sunset Park.
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 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.
Kings
- Also known as: “Brooklyn County” and “Kings County”
- Location: New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6344° or 40° 38′ 4″ northLongitude
-73.9503° or 73° 57′ 1″ westPopulation
2,500,000Elevation
23 feet (7 metres)Open location code
87G8J2MX+QVGeoNames ID
6941775
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Localities in the Area
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