Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bedford–Stuyvesant and Cypress Hills to the north; East New York to the east; Canarsie to the south; and East Flatbush to the west.
The Samuel J. Tilden Houses, one of many NYCHA public housing developments located in Brownsville
A street market on Belmont Avenue in 1962, when the neighborhood still had a large Jewish presence
Local retail; the Riverdale Towers sit in the background
Van Dyke I Houses
Crown Heights is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Crown Heights is bounded by Washington Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Ralph Avenue to the east, and Empire Boulevard/East New York Avenue to the south. It is about one mile (1.6 km) wide and two miles (3.2 km) long. Neighborhoods bordering Crown Heights include Prospect Heights to the west, Flatbush and Prospect Lefferts Gardens to the south, Brownsville to the east, and Bedford–Stuyvesant to the north.
Typical Crown Heights row houses
Imperial Apartments on Bedford Avenue, built in 1892
The former Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn, now an apartment house
Medgar Evers College, Building A