Midwood
Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded on the north by the Bay Ridge Branch tracks just above Avenue I and by the Brooklyn College campus of the City University of New York, and on the south by Avenue P and Kings Highway.- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: Brooklyn neighborhood
- Also known as: “Midwood, Brooklyn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include City University of New York Brooklyn College and Avenue M station.
City University of New York Brooklyn College
University
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 enrolled nearly 14,000 students on a 35-acre campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall 2023.
Avenue M station
Metro station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ditmas Park and Flatlands.
Ditmas Park
Neighborhood
Ditmas Park is a historic district in the neighborhood of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York City. The traditional boundaries of Ditmas Park, including Ditmas Park West, are Ocean Avenue and greater Flatbush to the east, Dorchester Road and the Prospect Park South neighborhood to the north, Coney Island Avenue and the Kensington neighborhood to the west, and Newkirk Avenue to the south.
Flatlands
Quarter
Flatlands is a neighborhood in the southeast part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The current neighborhood borders are roughly defined by the Bay Ridge Branch to the north, Avenue U to the south, Ralph Avenue to the east, and Flatbush Avenue to the southwest. Flatlands is situated 1½ miles east of Midwood.
Gravesend
Neighborhood
Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Gravesend is situated 1½ miles south of Midwood.
Midwood
- Category: locality
- Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.61888° or 40° 37′ 8″ north
Longitude
-73.96549° or 73° 57′ 56″ west
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Open location code
87G8J29M+HR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Midwood” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Midwood”
- Belarusian: “Мідвуд”
- Chinese: “米德伍德”
- Chinese: “麥伍德區”
- Dutch: “Midwout”
- French: “Midwood”
- German: “Midwood”
- Hebrew: “מידווד”
- Irish: “Midwood”
- Japanese: “ミッドウッド (ブルックリン)”
- Persian: “میدوود، بروکلین”
- Persian: “میدوود”
- South Azerbaijani: “میدوود، بروکلین”
- Turkish: “Midwood, Brooklyn”
- Turkish: “Midwood”
- Urdu: “مڈ ووڈ، بروکلین”
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