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51-701: The B67 route starts at McDonald Avenue and Cortelyou Road in Kensington , near the Ditmas Avenue station ( F and <F> ​ trains) on the New York City Subway 's IND Culver Line . This terminus is shared with the B69 . The two routes then continue up McDonald Avenue passing the Church Avenue station ( F and ​ G trains), and connecting with

102-723: A "deposit station" with a small collection, and was located at P.S. 134, three blocks east of the current library. Within four years, it had moved twice, and in 1912, it relocated to 770 McDonald Avenue, at the southwest corner of Ditmas Avenue. The library moved again in 1960 to a location four blocks east, on 410 Ditmas Avenue, between East 4th & East 5th Streets. The current facility opened in 2012. Public schools in Kensington include four public primary schools: P.S. 130 (shared with Windsor Terrace), P.S. 230, P.S. 179, and P.S. 134. There are three middle schools: M.S. 839, J.H.S. 62 and J.H.S. 23. The area has no public high schools. There

153-722: A "worn section of Flatbush" (by columnist Pete Hamill ) on the same page of the New York Daily News . During this period, the Kensington tracts began to experience significant demographic changes. Most of the area's long-endangered mainline Protestant churches (including the historically prominent Prospect Park Baptist Church ) were forced to close due to a lack of parishioners, while the area's deeply-rooted Irish American community continued to be supplanted by new waves of upwardly mobile Italian Americans moving out from less desirable sections of central and northern Brooklyn, paralleling developments in nearby Sunset Park . In

204-469: A 1974 interview with Wendy Schuman of The New York Times , a banker opined that Ocean Parkway "just [wasn't] prestigious anymore" as younger residents fully embraced suburbanization, leaving a substantial and rapidly aging white ethnic population (most of whom settled in the area between the early 1930s and the early 1950s) that proved reluctant to move due to New York's favorable rent regulation laws. Another resident who recently moved to Ocean Parkway cited

255-458: A commercial corridor. In particular, the intersection with Bay Parkway is surrounded by cemeteries on three corners, including Washington Cemetery . The New York City Subway 's IND Culver Line ( F and <F> ​ trains) serve most of its length. The following bus routes serve McDonald Avenue: On March 14, 1933, the Board of Aldermen (today's City Council) passed

306-425: A contemporaneous survey of 3,072 families indicated that 41% of residents identified as Roman Catholic (exemplified by a recent influx of second and third-generation Italian Americans from South Brooklyn and other northern neighborhoods), 33% as Jewish (primarily concentrated in apartment houses on "main traffic ways") and 26% as Protestant, with the latter population remaining concentrated in "private dwellings on

357-578: A distinctive, slightly diagonal street grid and is also known as Parkville . The area, originally part of the town of Flatbush, was originally known as Greenville and its land was first acquired in 1852 by the Freeman's Association, shortly after the completion of Coney Island Avenue on the eastern boundary of Kensington and Parkville. Public School 92 (later P.S. 134) and the Roman Catholic Church of St. Rose of Lima were built to service

408-566: A division that endures to the present.) Although the formation of such community organizations as the Kensington-Flatbush Preservation Association would further popularize the moniker throughout the 1970s, press accounts continued to describe the area as Flatbush. In April 1973, Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone said that planned renovations of upper Ocean Parkway (along with a smaller portion in contemporary Midwood) "[would] be an asset to

459-563: A feature about the Community Board 14 tracts of Flatbush. Nevertheless, City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center sociologist William B. Helmreich included Kensington within the boundaries of Flatbush (while acknowledging its unique demographic mix and comparatively downscale architectural profile) in The Brooklyn Nobody Knows (2016). Additionally, members of " frum " Orthodox Jewish communities in

510-465: A variety of post-1965 immigrant communities , including substantial Eastern European and South Asian enclaves) as a dual locus of relatively affordable rentals amid the city's burgeoning co-op conversion movement, further entrenching the notion of Kensington as a discrete neighborhood among new residents. In 1983, The New York Times described the Ocean Parkway boundary as a vestigial border in

561-678: A variety of limestone- and brick-fronted townhouse rows. As the area was gradually rezoned amid the construction of the IND Brooklyn Line , six-story elevator apartment houses became increasingly prevalent on upper Ocean Parkway and in its periphery between the late 1920s and 1941, replacing many of the suburban villas. Following World War II , the development of the Prospect Expressway ensured that luxury buildings (by now often exceeding six stories due to building code revisions and further zoning changes, as exemplified by

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612-511: Is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn , located south of Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery . It is bordered by Coney Island Avenue to the east; Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue to the north; McDonald Avenue , Dahill Road or 36th Street to the west; and Ditmas Avenue or Foster Avenue (if including Parkville, a micro-neighborhood largely subsumed under Kensington's imprimatur) to

663-599: Is also an Orthodox Jewish school called Yeshiva Torah Vodaas . McDonald Avenue McDonald Avenue is a north-south street in Brooklyn , New York City . The avenue runs about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) between the intersection of 86th Street and Shell Road in Gravesend , and 20th Street and 10th Avenue in Windsor Terrace . It passes near densely populated areas, cemeteries, and funeral homes, as well as

714-532: Is named for}, was president of the company by 1872. In June 1883, soon after the Brooklyn Bridge opened, the operator rerouted the line as an effort to make more profit. Tracks were built on Concord Street from Bridge Street west to Washington Street, and the operator used the newer alignment of the DeKalb Avenue Line on Washington Street past the bridge to Front Street and Water Street and

765-692: Is shared by the B57 and B62 buses, which split off from Jay Street at Tillary Street. The B67 then continues along Jay Street, paralleling the IND Sixth Avenue Line ( F and <F> ​ trains) to the York Street station, where it enters Dumbo . Once in Dumbo, B67 buses meander through several streets until it turns south onto Gold Street and then east onto Sands Street. The line then continues via Sands Street until it reaches

816-587: Is shared with the B57. At Navy Street, the B69 turns onto Sands Street and runs along the street until its terminus at Pearl Street, just south of the York Street station . The line along Vanderbilt Avenue from Myrtle Avenue south to Prospect Park was built in 1869 by the Brooklyn, Hunter's Point and Prospect Park Railroad as a branch of the Crosstown Line , connecting Williamsburg to the park. The branch

867-707: The Atlantic Terminal mall and adjacent LIRR station . All routes then head past the Barclays Center, making no stops, until it reaches Livingston Street where buses turn onto Livingston to head into Downtown Brooklyn. The B67 diverges from the B41 and B45 at Jay Street and serves the Jay Street–MetroTech station ( A , ​ C ​, F , <F> ​​, N , R , and ​ W trains). This stop

918-615: The B35 . North of Albemarle Road, the Culver Line turns away from McDonald Avenue and runs to 20th Street, where it runs northwest on 20th Street to 7th Avenue. Here, buses run up the corridor, serving a commercial street in Park Slope . At Ninth Street there is a transfer to the Culver Line's Seventh Avenue station ( F and ​ G trains). Both routes continue up Seventh Avenue until Seventh Avenue meets Flatbush Avenue, at

969-806: The B62 bus would provide service to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Closely-spaced stops would also be eliminated. The B69 service south of Prospect Park West would be discontinued, though the B67 would continue to serve that segment. B69 service north of Flushing Avenue would take over B48's route to Greenpoint, while the B48 would take over the B69's route north of Flushing Avenue. Closely spaced stops would also be eliminated. Kensington, Brooklyn 40°38′19″N 73°58′23″W  /  40.638528°N 73.973167°W  / 40.638528; -73.973167 Kensington

1020-627: The Brooklyn Navy Yard , where buses enter through its Sands Street gate. Once in the yard, buses also travel via several streets, making two stops until it exits the yard at Clymer Street and Kent Avenue in Williamsburg , where it runs north to its terminus at Division Street and Wythe Avenue. On weekdays, buses travel the full route from Kensington to Williamsburg, via the Brooklyn Navy Yard to serve Dumbo and Vinegar Hill. On weekends,

1071-582: The Ditmas Avenue and 18th Avenue stations. In addition, Kensington is served by the B8 , B16 , B35 , B67 , B68 , B69 , B103 local buses, as well as the BM1 , BM2 , BM3 , BM4 express buses to Manhattan . The Kensington branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is located at 4207 18th Avenue, near the intersection of Seton Place and East Second Street. It was originally created in 1908 as

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1122-559: The Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue frontage, including many that operate as co-ops . The neighborhood has a diverse population with residents of many ethnicities. The main commercial streets are Coney Island Avenue, Church Avenue, Ditmas Avenue, and McDonald Avenue. Ocean Parkway bisects the neighborhood east–west. Kensington's ZIP Code is 11218 and it is served by the NYPD 's 66th Precinct. The land where Kensington now sits

1173-669: The Post Office Department and the Brooklyn Public Library ), it was also used by demographers to differentiate the largely working class , ethnically heterogeneous tracts west of Ocean Parkway (then an upper middle class , predominantly Jewish American enclave roughly situated between the well-heeled residential thoroughfares of the Upper West Side and the more steadfastly middle class Grand Concourse in socioeconomic standing among New York City's Jewish American community at its late 1940s social apogee) from

1224-795: The Seventh Avenue station on the BMT Brighton Line . At this location, the B69 turns south towards Grand Army Plaza , while the B67 continues up Flatbush Avenue with the B41 . The line then heads into Downtown Brooklyn , interchanging with the B45 at the Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station ( 2 , ​ 3 , ​ 4 , ​ 5 ​, B , ​ D , N , ​ Q ​, R and ​ W ​ trains) by

1275-529: The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill to serve new economic activity. Along with Downtown Brooklyn, both Dumbo and the Brooklyn Navy Yard are part of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle, a cluster of economic activity occurring in Brooklyn. On December 1, 2022, the MTA released a draft redesign of the Brooklyn bus network. As part of the redesign, B67 service east of York Street would be discontinued, since

1326-692: The Flatbush community." Brooklyn-born sports journalist Stan Fischler also identified the IND Church Avenue station as being located in Flatbush in Uptown, Downtown , his 1976 history of the New York City subway system. Reflecting this transitional milieu, the area surrounding a March 1977 gas station shootout at 417 Dahill Road was alternatively characterized as being part of Borough Park (by reporters Thomas Raftery and Paul Meskil) and as

1377-532: The Jewish American community and the concomitant emergence of an Afro-Caribbean immigrant community in the vicinity of Flatbush Avenue — would contrast with comparative stability in the Kensington tracts, notwithstanding the effects of a decade-long population decline likely stemming from a variety of factors, including the beginning of post- Levittown mass suburbanization and the broader amelioration of New York City's postwar housing shortage. In 1956,

1428-589: The Marlene J. [later known as the Caton Towers] and the Americana Towers ) continued to be developed on Ocean Parkway and in its immediate vicinity until the mid-1960s. Since the 1990s, there has been a notable resurgence in various forms of residential development, including new apartment houses on Ocean Parkway and smaller structures on side streets. Throughout much of the 20th century, Kensington

1479-692: The White and Asian population ranges are roughly equal with each of their population being at between 10,000 and 19,999 residents. In addition, there were 5,000 to 9,999 Hispanic residents; however, the Black residents were fewer than 5,000. The New York City Subway 's IND Culver Line ( F , <F> , and ​ G trains) runs along the western part of the neighborhood and stops underground at Fort Hamilton Parkway and at Church Avenue . The line rises above ground to an elevated structure ( F and <F> ​ trains) to serve

1530-402: The area frequently extend the boundaries of Flatbush to an area that corresponds to (and often exceeds) the pre-consolidation township, including contemporary Kensington and Midwood. Based on data from the 2010 United States Census , the population of Kensington-Ocean Parkway was 36,891, a decrease of 46 (0.1%) from the 36,937 counted in 2000 . Covering an area of 364.84 acres (147.65 ha),

1581-407: The area's perceived isolation from eastern Flatbush, by now a predominantly Caribbean American community, as his impetus for relocation: "I'm a bigot. I don't care how much money they have. I'm not going to live with Blacks and Puerto Ricans. I'll move out and keep on moving. Five years ago I would have punched a guy in the nose for talking like this." By the early 1980s, the Kensington designation

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1632-508: The closure and ensuing "bustitution" of the Church Avenue streetcar line irrevocably altered a longstanding facet of the neighborhood's public transit landscape. Although New York City Deputy Municipal Reference Librarian Thelma E. Smith described the Kensington tracts from McDonald Avenue to Coney Island Avenue as a "sub-neighborhood" of Flatbush in a 1966 annotated bibliography of neighborhood histories and reportage for city officials, The New York Times would characterize Ocean Parkway as

1683-484: The contemporary community boards of New York City were established in 1963, much of present-day Kensington was appended to the Borough Park -dominated Brooklyn Community Board 12 , possibly stemming from Kensington Democratic leader Howard Golden 's affiliation with Borough Park's then-powerful Roosevelt Club. Conversely, the eastern Flatbush and Midwood tracts were incorporated into Brooklyn Community Board 14 ,

1734-556: The east). These efforts also encompassed Brooklyn Real Estate Exchange President Jeremiah Johnson, Jr.'s circa 1891 Kensington Heights and circa 1894 Kensington-in-Flatbush developments, the former in the vicinity of Ditmas Avenue and the latter possibly in the vicinity of Church Avenue; detached suburban villas on and adjoining Ocean Parkway that attracted wealthier residents from more urbanized areas, including Brooklyn Heights , Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick ; hybrid commercial/walk-up apartment structures on commercial thoroughfares; and

1785-486: The historically affluent, Old Stock and Jewish American-dominated tracts east of Coney Island Avenue. A 1945 fifteen-year retrospective study of Brooklyn Protestantism by the Committee for Cooperative Field Research included the Kensington tracts between the historical villages of Windsor Terrace and Parkville (alternatively characterized as the "Ocean Parkway corridor") within the boundaries of Flatbush, also noting that

1836-401: The late 19th and early 20th centuries, much of which was initially concentrated in the village of Windsor Terrace (which had more southerly borders than the contemporary neighborhood, being bounded by Church Avenue on the south, Gravesend [McDonald] Avenue on the west, the historical Brooklyn–Flatbush town line near Terrace Place on the north, and Prospect Park Southwest and Coney Island Avenue on

1887-414: The neighborhood had a population density of 101.1 inhabitants per acre (64,700/sq mi; 25,000/km ). The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 47.9% (17,686) White , 6.9% (2,558) African American , 0.1% (49) Native American , 24.1% (8,879) Asian , 0.0% (9) Pacific Islander , 0.7% (274) from other races , and 2.5% (926) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 17.6% (6,510) of

1938-417: The northern terminal of the line is at Jay Street and Sands Street, and does not continue into Williamsburg. There is no overnight service. The B69 bus route starts at McDonald Avenue and Cortelyou Road in Kensington . This terminus is shared with the B67. Then the two routes proceed up McDonald Avenue to 20th Street. Here, buses use 19th Street going north and 20th Street going south until 7th Avenue, where

1989-702: The old route via Gold Street and Bridge Street, as well as the proposed 15th Street Line from Hamilton Ferry to the depot, the Hicks Street Line from South Ferry to the depot, and the Park Avenue Line from Downtown Brooklyn east to Bushwick . Additionally, the Atlantic Avenue Railroad obtained a lease on the Ninth Avenue Depot. Culver had long desired to rid himself of the horse line, preferring to operate only

2040-717: The older alignment via Gold Street and Bridge Street was abandoned. Following an agreement made on December 10, 1885, the Atlantic Avenue Railroad leased the Vanderbilt Avenue Line on January 1, 1886. This lease included the entire horsecar property of the PP&;CI, which kept its steam railroad from the Ninth Avenue Depot adjacent to the Greenwood Cemetery south to Coney Island . It also included franchises to build and operate

2091-599: The population. Kensington is a very ethnically diverse neighborhood, consisting of South Asian ( Bangladeshi and Pakistani ), Orthodox Jewish ( Hasidic ), Uzbek , Latin American , Polish , and Ukrainian communities. The intersection of McDonald and Church Avenues was co-named Little Bangladesh in October 2022 in recognition of the area's large and growing Bangladeshi community. The 2020 census data from New York City Department of City Planning showed each

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2142-430: The side streets" amid an ongoing decline. In his 2015 memoir, musician Marky Ramone (who resided at 640 Ditmas Avenue throughout much of his childhood in the 1960s) noted the area's distance from major thoroughfares in eastern Flatbush, necessitating a two-fare public transit zone via bus to Erasmus Hall High School . Beginning in the 1950s, demographic shifts in eastern Flatbush — exemplified by white flight among

2193-498: The south. Kensington and Parkville are bordered by the Prospect Park South and Ditmas Park subsections of Flatbush to the east; Windsor Terrace to the north; Borough Park to the west; and Midwood to the south. Kensington is a predominantly residential area, with housing types that include brick rowhouses , detached one-family Victorians , and apartment buildings. Pre-war brick apartment buildings dominate

2244-513: The steam extension. Seventh Avenue horse cars were replaced with electric trolleys on July 17, 1893. The Nassau Electric Railroad began operating the line under lease (of the Atlantic Avenue Railroad) on April 5, 1896, The B67 route was a streetcar line until February 11, 1951, when the line was replaced with a bus route , designated "B-67". On September 9, 2013, the B67 route was extended into South Williamsburg via

2295-422: The subsection in 1870. A librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library wrote that "Parkville is one of those wonky neighborhoods that isn't often referenced" because of its small size. Despite political tensions, the town of Flatbush was annexed by the city of Brooklyn in 1894, presaging the consolidation of the five boroughs of New York City on January 1, 1898. Accordingly, further spates of development occurred in

2346-479: The two routes turn along 7th Avenue. From there, the lines run along that corridor, serving businesses and connecting to multiple bus and subway lines until Flatbush Avenue, where the B67 heads north on Flatbush Avenue . The B69, meanwhile, heads south on Flatbush, and goes around Grand Army Plaza to head back north on Vanderbilt Avenue . Once there, buses run up the length of the street until it meets Flushing Avenue , and it runs west on Flushing Avenue. This segment

2397-610: The western boundary of Flatbush in early 1968. Shortly thereafter, the New York City municipal government informally designated the tracts between McDonald and Coney Island Avenues as Kensington in the 1969 Plan for New York City . Similarly, Gilbert Tauber and Samuel Kaplan asserted that southern Windsor Terrace, the traditional Kensington tracts and western Midwood constituted the sprawling neighborhood of "Kensington-Ocean Parkway" in The New York City Handbook , first published by Doubleday in 1966. (Indeed, after

2448-477: Was first colonized by Dutch farmers during the seventeenth century within the town of Flatbush . It was re-settled by British colonists in 1737. First developed in 1885 after the completion of Ocean Parkway , the neighborhood was named after the place and borough in West London , at the turn of the century. The small area between 18th and Foster Avenues, in the southern portion of the neighborhood, contains

2499-678: Was not profitable, and was bought (south of Park Avenue) by the Park Avenue Railroad, which then turned it into a line to the Fulton Ferry , which opened on May 3, 1871. The line was extended south on Prospect Park West to Greenwood Cemetery with the tracks between 9th Street and 15th Street belonging to the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad . Andrew R. Culver , {whom the IND Culver Line south to Coney Island

2550-562: Was rapidly adopted by real estate interests as these tenants (who often identified as Flatbush residents) began to die or retire elsewhere, leading to a greater awareness of the name through a surfeit of advertising. During this period, the area became desirable to a wide range of New Yorkers (including young professionals adversely affected by gentrification in such neighborhoods as Park Slope and Tribeca ; Orthodox Jews , African Americans and Hispanic and Latino Americans from Borough Park, eastern Flatbush and other nearby neighborhoods; and

2601-466: Was seldom distinguished as a distinct neighborhood, with many residents and demographers identifying the area as the western section of Flatbush. The descriptor West Flatbush was also used by various religious & civic organizations and urban planners in the first half of the 20th century before largely falling into disuse after 1954. While the Kensington moniker continued to be employed by branches of certain governmental institutions (including

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