James Forten Playground

James Forten Playground is a playground in Brooklyn, New York. James Forten Playground is situated near the government office Communicty School District 13, as well as near Duryea Presbyterian Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: 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

Photo: Jim.henderson, Public domain.

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. Brooklyn Museum is situated 2,200 feet south of James Forten Playground.

Grand Army Plaza

Square

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Grand Army Plaza, originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, is a public plaza that comprises the northern corner and the main entrance of Prospect Park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Grand Army Plaza is situated 1,600 feet southwest of James Forten Playground.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Prospect Heights and Clinton Hill Historic District.

Prospect Heights

Neighborhood

Photo: Spyder Monkey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Prospect Heights is a neighborhood in the northwest of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway – beginning at Grand Army Plaza – to the south, and Washington Avenue to the east.

Clinton Hill Historic District

Locality

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.

Clinton Hill Historic District is a national historic district in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, in New York City. It consists of 1,063 largely residential contributing buildings built between the 1840s and 1930 in popular contemporary and revival styles.

Clinton Hill

Neighborhood

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Clinton Hill is a neighborhood located in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered by the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Flushing Avenue to the north, Williamsburg to the northeast, Classon Avenue and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the east, Atlantic Avenue and Prospect Heights to the south and southwest and Vanderbilt Avenue and Fort Greene to the west.

James Forten Playground

Type: Playground
Category: recreation area
Location: Brooklyn, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.67666° or 40° 40′ 36″ north

Longitude

-73.96572° or 73° 57′ 57″ west

Open location code

87G8M2GM+MP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 77901814

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=playground

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Communicty School District 13 and Duryea Presbyterian Church.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Citi Bike - Prospect Pl & Underhill Ave and Underhill Garage.

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Worth a closer look: Coney Island and Brighton Beach and Southwest Brooklyn.

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