Gravesend

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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Avenue U station and Old Gravesend Cemetery.

Avenue U station

Metro station

Photo: GeneralPunger, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Avenue U station is a local station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Avenue U and McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

Old Gravesend Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Gravesend Neck Road and McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The cemetery was founded about 1658 and contains the graves of a number of the original patentees and their families.

Lady Moody Triangle

Park

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lady Moody Triangle is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach.

Bensonhurst

Neighborhood

Photo: DoomDan515, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd Avenue and on the southwest by 86th Street.

Brighton Beach

Neighborhood

Photo: Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline.

Gravesend

Type: Neighborhood with 30,000 residents
Category: locality
Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.5951° or 40° 35′ 42″ north

Longitude

-73.97368° or 73° 58′ 25″ west

Population

30,000

Elevation

13 feet (4 metres)

Open location code

87G8H2WG+2G

OpenStreetMap ID

way 517506075

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

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