Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn

Greenwood Heights
Green-Wood Cemetery's Gothic Arch at 500 25th Street and 5th Avenue
Green-Wood Cemetery's Gothic Arch at 500 25th Street and 5th Avenue
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Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°39′32″N 74°00′00″W / 40.659°N 74.000°W / 40.659; -74.000
Country United States
State New York
City New York City
Borough Brooklyn
Community DistrictBrooklyn 7[1]
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Code
11232
Area codes718, 347, 929, and 917

Greenwood Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, named partially after the adjacent Green-Wood Cemetery by real estate developers. Greenwood Heights is a part of Brooklyn Community District 7 along with Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and South Slope. The much-debated borders are roughly the Prospect Expressway to the north, Gowanus Canal and Upper New York Bay to the west, Eighth Avenue to the east, and 39th Street to the south (along the southern boundary of the Green-Wood Cemetery and northern boundary of the 36th-38th Street Yard and South Brooklyn Railway).[2]

Greenwood Heights, originally considered to be located within South Brooklyn, was incorporated into Sunset Park in the 1960s. A separate designation for the neighborhood was created by the 1980s. Today, Greenwood Heights overlaps with both Sunset Park and South Slope.

Greenwood Heights is a mixed neighborhood of Hispanics, older Polish and Italian families, Chinese, African American, and Brooklynites who have relocated from other higher-priced neighborhoods.[3]

  1. ^ "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  2. ^ Goodloe, Kate (2007-05-17). "South of Park Slope, a Neighborhood Awakens". New York Sun. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
  3. ^ Bureau, U.S. Census. "U.S. Census website". {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

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