{"id":30860,"date":"2014-12-16T01:22:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T01:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?page_id=30860"},"modified":"2015-02-08T14:07:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T19:07:53","slug":"greenwood-heights-brooklyn-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/resources\/neighborhoods-brooklyn\/greenwood-heights-brooklyn-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn (History)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/resources\/neighborhoods-brooklyn\/\">Neighborhoods In Brooklyn<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><b><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/8\/88\/Main_Gate_to_Green-Wood_Cemetery.jpg\/257px-Main_Gate_to_Green-Wood_Cemetery.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Greenwood Heights<\/b> is a neighborhood in the New York City\u00a0borough of Brooklyn\u00a0that takes part of its name from the neighborhood proximity to the Green-Wood Cemetery. The much-debated borders are, roughly, the Prospect Expressway\u00a0to the north, Gowanus Canal\u00a0to the west, Eighth Avenue to the east, and 39th Street to the south (southern boundary of the Green-Wood Cemetery and northern boundary of the 36th-38th\u00a0Street Yard\u00a0and South Brooklyn Railway).<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood Heights is a mixed neighborhood of Hispanics, older Polish American\u00a0and Italian American\u00a0families, Chinese, Black, and middle class\u00a0Brooklynites who have relocated from other higher-priced neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood Heights&#8217; architectural mix of wood fame,\u00a0vinyl sided and brick homes gives the area an eclectic look and feel, different from its neighbors Park Slope\u00a0to the north and Sunset Park\u00a0to the south.<\/p>\n<p>Recent new real estate development, curbed with the rezoning of the area in November 2005,\u00a0has brought an influx of luxury condominium apartments into a residential area that was mainly made up of 1- and 2-family homes. Post-rezoning, while new development sites have occurred, there has been a new trend of home renovations (many of them &#8220;gut renovations&#8221;), taking many of the neglected c. 1900 wood frame homes and restoring them to their turn of the 20th century historical look.<\/p>\n<p>The neighborhood is served by the 36th street\u00a025th street, and Prospect Ave\u00a0stations on the New York City Subway&#8217;s BMT 4th Ave line, served by the<span class=\"nowrap\">D<\/span> <span class=\"nowrap\">N<\/span> <span class=\"nowrap\">R<\/span>\u00a0trains, and has a primary school, Public School 172.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the sites of the sprawling Battle of Brooklyn (Battle of Long Island) in August 1776, a pivotal battle in the\u00a0American Revolutionary War\u00a0to famous residents of Green-Wood Cemetery. In the 19th through middle 20th centuries the economy was dominated by the working Brooklyn waterfront.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Neighborhoods In Brooklyn) Greenwood Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City\u00a0borough of Brooklyn\u00a0that takes part of its name from the neighborhood proximity to the Green-Wood Cemetery. The much-debated borders are, roughly, the Prospect Expressway\u00a0to the north, Gowanus Canal\u00a0to the west, Eighth Avenue to the east, and 39th Street to the south (southern boundary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"parent":27953,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30860","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30860\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}