Everything about Boerum Hill Brooklyn totally explained
Boerum Hill is a small neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the
New York City borough of
Brooklyn that occupies 36 blocks bounded by
State Street to the north,
4th Avenue to the east,
Court Street to the west, and
Warren Street to the south. There are commercial strips along
Smith Street,
Court Street, and
Atlantic Avenue. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 2, served by
Brooklyn Community Board 2. The
Brooklyn High School of the Arts is also located in the neighborhood on Dean Street and 3 Avenue.
History
Boerum Hill is named for the colonial farm of the Boerum family that occupied most of the area. Most of the housing consists of three-story row houses built between
1840 and
1870. The population is middle and upper middle class while the same column rewritten two years later disputes the attribution.
In the 1950s, all the neighborhoods south of
Atlantic Avenue and west of
Hoyt Street were called
South Brooklyn, which derived its name from being south of the original
town of Brooklyn (now
Brooklyn Heights) which had been settled by the
Dutch. In the 1950s and '60s, the north end of Smith Street was the center of New York City's
Mohawk community.
Boerum Hill contains the
Brooklyn House of Detention at Boerum Place (
Adams Street) and Atlantic Avenue, converted industrial spaces, and
NYCHA-run housing (Wyckoff Gardens and the Gowanus Houses).
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