Heckscher Playground
Heckscher Playground is a park in Brooklyn, New York. Heckscher Playground is situated nearby to the quarter Bushwick, as well as near the neighborhood Ridgewood.Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Barbara’s Church and Knickerbocker Avenue station.
St. Barbara’s Church
Church
The Church of St. Barbara is a Roman Catholic parish church under the authority of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, located in northern Brooklyn, New York, in the Bushwick-Ridgewood neighborhood.
Knickerbocker Avenue station
Metro station
Photo: Pacific Coast Highway, CC BY 3.0.
The Knickerbocker Avenue station is a local station on the BMT Myrtle Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenues in Bushwick, Brooklyn, it is served by the M train at all times.
Gates Avenue station
Metro station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bushwick and Ridgewood.
Bushwick
Quarter
Photo: Noremacmada, Public domain.
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.
Ridgewood
Neighborhood
Photo: EddieSegoura, Public domain.
Ridgewood is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It borders the Queens neighborhoods of Maspeth to the north, Middle Village to the east, and Glendale to the southeast, as well as the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick to the southwest and East Williamsburg to the west.
Fresh Pond
Neighborhood
Fresh Pond was a small middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, separated from Juniper Valley by the Lutheran and Mount Olivet cemeteries.
Heckscher Playground
- Type: Park
- Description: park in Kings County, New York, United States of America
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.69505° or 40° 41′ 42″ northLongitude
-73.9183° or 73° 55′ 6″ westElevation
33 feet (10 metres)Open location code
87G8M3WJ+2MOpenStreetMap ID
way 1069379857OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Heckscher Playground” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Heckscher Playground”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bushwick and Ridgewood.
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