Parkchester
Parkchester is a planned community and neighborhood originally developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and located in the east Bronx, New York City.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood of The Bronx in New York City
- Also known as: “Parkchester, Bronx”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Metropolitan Oval and Parkchester Library.
Metropolitan Oval
Park
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The Metropolitan Oval, also known as Met Oval, is a soccer complex located in Maspeth, Queens in New York City. Village Voice named the complex, which takes up 4.2 acres, the "Best full soccer field in the middle of a residential neighborhood" in 2004, for its "pristine" playing surface and the view of the Manhattan skyline.
Parkchester station
Metro station
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The Parkchester station is an express station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. It is located above Hugh J. Grant Circle in the Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx, where East 177th Street, Metropolitan Avenue, and Westchester Avenue intersect.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Van Nest and Westchester Square.
Van Nest
Neighborhood
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Van Nest is a working-class neighborhood geographically located in the East Bronx section of the Bronx, New York City. Going clockwise, its boundaries are Bronxdale Avenue to the northeast, the Amtrak tracks to the southeast, and Bronx Park to the west.
Westchester Square
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.
Westchester Square is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the eastern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: East Tremont Avenue and Silver Street, Blondell Avenue and Westchester Creek to the east, Waterbury Avenue to the south and Castle Hill Avenue to the west.
West Farms
Neighborhood
Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.
West Farms is a residential neighborhood in The Bronx, New York City. Its boundaries are Bronx Park to the north, the Bronx River to the east, the Cross Bronx Expressway to the south, and Southern Boulevard to the west.
Parkchester
- Categories: list of Bronx neighborhoods and locality
- Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.83899° or 40° 50′ 20″ northLongitude
-73.86041° or 73° 51′ 38″ westElevation
52 feet (16 metres)Open location code
87G8R4QQ+HROpenStreetMap ID
node 158807229OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q7138200
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Parkchester” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Parkchester”
- Chinese: “帕克徹斯特”
- Dutch: “Parkchester”
- French: “Parkchester”
- Japanese: “パークチェスター (ブロンクス)”
- Sylheti: “ꠙꠣꠞ꠆ꠇꠌꠦꠡ꠆ꠐꠣꠞ”
- Turkish: “Parkchester”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bronxdale and Unionport.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Parkchester Police Department and Parkchester Department of Public Safety 24 hour location.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Parkchester”. Photo: formulanone, CC BY-SA 2.0.