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Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and New York Harbor to the west. [ 1][ 4][ a] The neighborhood is named for a public park of the same name that covers 24.5 acres (9.9 ha ...
Manhattanhenge. Manhattanhenge, also called the Manhattan Solstice, [1] is an event during which the setting sun or the rising sun is aligned with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, New York City. The astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson claims to have coined the term, by analogy with Stonehenge.
Sunset Park is a 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) public park in the neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City, between 41st and 44th Streets and 5th and 7th Avenues. The modern-day park contains a playground, recreation center, and pool. The recreation center and pool comprise the Sunset Play Center, which was designated as both an exterior and ...
W (limited rush hour service only) The 36th Street station is an express station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It is served by the D, N, and R trains at all times. [ 4] During rush hours, a limited amount of W trains also serve this station.
Commons: Sandy images. Wikinews: Sandy stories. New York was severely affected by Hurricane Sandy on October 29–30, 2012, particularly New York City, its suburbs, and Long Island. Sandy's impacts included the flooding of the New York City Subway system, of many suburban communities, and of all road tunnels entering Manhattan except the ...
Industry City (also Bush Terminal) [ a] is a historic intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex on the Upper New York Bay waterfront in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The northern portion, commonly called "Industry City" on its own, hosts commercial light manufacturing tenants across 6,000,000 square ...
Syracuse (/ ˈ s ɪr ə k j uː z, ˈ s ɛr-,-k j uː s / SIRR-ə-kewz, SERR-, -kewss) [3] [4] [5] is a city in, and the county seat of, Onondaga County, New York, United States.With a population of 148,620 and a metropolitan area of 662,057, [6] it is the fifth-most populated city and 13th-most populated municipality in the state of New York.
St Michael's Catholic Church, officially the Church of St. Michael, is a Roman Catholic parish church under the authority of the Diocese of Brooklyn, located at 352 42nd Street at Fourth Avenue in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. Before the founding of St. Michael's parish in 1870, Catholics in the area had to travel to ...