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 Links to TND and New Urban Neighborhoods
The acronym TND stands for Traditional Neighborhood Development, a comprehensive planning system that includes a variety of housing types and land uses in a defined area.
A TND is served by a network of paths, streets and lanes suitable for pedestrians as well as vehicles.
This provides residents the option of walking, biking or driving to places within their neighborhood.
www.tndtownpaper.com /neighborhoods.htm   (491 words)

  
  Neighborhoods List
Neighborhoods include Boylan Heights with turn-of-the-last-century homes; Glenwood/Brooklyn, a merging of two turn-of-the-century suburbs where the homes range from tiny bungalows to spacious two-story colonials; and Five Points, a neighborhood with an eclectic village feel and exquisitely renovated homes in many diverse styles and sizes.
One example of the new developments under construction is Kitts Creek, a master planned neighborhood situated near RTP and conveniently adjacent to the new sections of I 540.
Situated in the middle of the neighborhood, amenities are accessible to all homeowners.
www.associatearrangements.com /neighborhoods.html   (9426 words)

  
  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brooklyn's Borough President is Marty Markowitz, elected as a Democrat in 2001 and re-elected in 2005.
In Brooklyn the population was spread out with 26.9% under the age of 18, 10.3% from 18 to 24, 30.8% from 25 to 44, 20.6% from 45 to 64, and 11.5% who are 65 years of age or older.
Brooklyn is extensively connected to Manhattan by three bridges, the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg bridges, and a tunnel, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Brooklyn,_New_York   (5255 words)

  
 New York City
At the start of the American Revolutionary War, the city was the scene of important early fighting at the Battle of Brooklyn, suffered a great fire in which much of it burned, and fell into British control for the remainder of the war, not to be regained by the Americans until 1783.
The Borough of Brooklyn consisted of the City of Brooklyn as well as several municipalities in eastern Kings County.
Brooklyn's old Coney Island is still a center of seaside recreation, with its beach, boardwalk, and amusement parks.
www.xasa.biz /wiki/en/wikipedia/n/ne/new_york_city_1.html   (5371 words)

  
 The Ultimate New York City - American History Information Guide and Reference
Through the boroughs, there are hundreds of neighborhoods in the city, many with a definable history and character all their own.
Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and opens to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Downtown Brooklyn skyline is the smallest of the three, and is centered around a major transportation hub in Northwestern Brooklyn.
www.historymania.com /american_history/New_York_City   (7821 words)

  
 Brooklyn
Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City.
Brooklyn, the 'Borough of Homes', can be understood as a collection of neighborhoods, many historically descended from the old towns and villages of Dutch times.
Brooklyn's most famous team, the Dodgers, got its start in 1884 in the American Association, calling themselves the Bridegrooms and playing at the first of three venues called Washington Park.
en.mcfly.org /Brooklyn   (2397 words)

  
 Bambooweb: New York City
At the start of the American Revolutionary War, the city was the scene of important early fighting at the Battle of Brooklyn, suffered a great fire in which much of it burned, and fell into British control for the remainder of the war, not to be regained by the Americans until 1783.
The Borough of Brooklyn consisted of the City of Brooklyn as well as several municipalities in eastern Kings County.
Staten Island is the safest borough in the city, Queens and Manhattan are in the middle range, while Brooklyn and The Bronx have the highest crime rates.
www.bambooweb.com /articles/N/e/New_York_City.html   (5094 words)

  
 cars - New York City
Through the boroughs, there are hundreds of neighborhoods in the city, many with a definable history and character all their own.
Upper New York Bay is surrounded by Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and is connected by the Narrows between Brooklyn and Staten Island to Lower New York Bay, which is partially surrounded by Brooklyn, Staten Island, and the coast of New Jersey, and opens to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Downtown Brooklyn skyline is the smallest of the three, and is centered around a major transportation hub in Northwestern Brooklyn.
www.carluvers.com /cars/New_York_City   (7809 words)

  
 New York, NY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Neighborhoods that were once considered dangerous are now thriving with new businesses and housing, and many residents feel safe to walk the streets late at night.
Brooklyn also hosts one of the country's leading urban medical centers: SUNY Downstate Medical Center, an academic medical center, the oldest hospital-based medical school in the United States.
The Downtown Brooklyn skyline is the smallest of the three New York City skylines, and is centered around a major transportation hub in Northwestern Brooklyn.
www.twohamsters.com /City-Guides/NY/New-York   (8393 words)

  
 BrooklynSpeaks principles | BrooklynSpeaks
Be a model of sustainability given the enormous environmental impact of the project.
Downtown Brooklyn is already congested, and the existing proposal would generate over 20,000 additional new vehicular trips everyday and aggravate mass transit crowding and delays.
However, two thirds of the units in the development will be sold or rented at market rate, and 60% of the affordable units would only be affordable to families making in excess of the Brooklyn median income, which is $35,000.
www.brooklynspeaks.net /principles   (605 words)

  
 Live in Baltimore - Brooklyn-Curtis Bay
The boundaries of the neighborhoods are the Patapsco River to the north and northeast, Curtis Creek to the east and southeast, and Anne Arundel County to south and west.
The Brooklyn and Curtis Bay neighborhoods grew as the homes to workers in the many industries that lined the river and harbor.
Brooklyn's development was given a boost in 1856, when the Crisp and Cromwell families cooperated to construct the Light Street Bridge in South Baltimore to Acton's Par in Brooklyn.
www.livebaltimore.com /nb/list/brklyncrtsby   (654 words)

  
 New York City, New York - City Search   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Located in the state of New York, New York City has a population of over 8 million people contained within 309 square miles (800 km2), and is the heart of the New York Metropolitan Area, which is one of the largest urban conglomerations in the world with a population of over 22 million.
This process is exemplified by the cases of Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Manhattan's East Village and Lower East Side.
New York is a city of "great museums" with the Metropolitan Museum of Art's assemblage of historic art, the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum's 20th century collection, and the American Museum of Natural History and its Hayden Planetarium focusing on the sciences.
www.yp.com /cities/new-york-city.php   (5929 words)

  
 Brooklyn Links   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brooklyn Academy of Music - Dating from its first performance in 1861, BAM has grown into a thriving urban arts center that brings international performing arts, media, and film to Brooklyn.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Visiting this site is the next best thing to visiting the garden: Exhaustive but well organized, it offers virtual tours and everything you would ever want to know about the garden, as well as gardening information and access to the resource center and library.
Brooklyn Museum of Art - The Brooklyn Museum of Art is the second largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the United States.
www.gothamgazette.com /localbeats/brooklyn.php   (1631 words)

  
 The Brooklyn Paper: Credit where due
Speaker after speaker celebrated Golden’s visionary role in the Brooklyn “renaissance,” ticking off a laundry list of development projects that began or were completed during his 24 years as borough president.
By encouraging would-be suburbanites to stay in Brooklyn — and then invest in their communities — the Ortners played a huge role in saving this borough.
That’s when developers like Bruce Ratner decided that Brooklyn was a good bet for projects like Metrotech — and even then he demanded (and got) huge subsidies and handouts to build here.
www.brooklynpaper.com /stories/30/16/30_16editorial.html   (572 words)

  
 BrooklynSpeaks principles | BrooklynSpeaks
The current plan would overwhelm surrounding neighborhoods with enormous towers and create deadening superblocks with private-feeling open space.
Downtown Brooklyn is already congested, and the existing proposal would generate over 20,000 additional new vehicular trips everyday and aggravate mass transit crowding and delays.
However, two thirds of the units in the development will be sold or rented at market rate, and 60% of the affordable units would only be affordable to families making in excess of the Brooklyn median income, which is $35,000.
brooklynspeaks.net /principles   (655 words)

  
 Brooklyn Center Apartments For Rent
You will find that most Brooklyn Center apartments are conveniently located near shopping centers, bars and clubs, restaurants and public transportation.
We know that finding Brooklyn Center apartments for rent can be time consuming, which is why we allow you to narrow down your apartment search based on various amenities that are a must.
List your Brooklyn Center apartment rental on 101 Apartments and reach thousands of qualified, ready to rent tenants every day.
www.101apartments.com /rent/Minnesota/Brooklyn-Center.asp   (510 words)

  
 Brooklyn Public Library | Historic Brooklyn Photographs
The major categories of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle photographs in the catalog include Bridges, Churches, Coney Island, Neighborhoods, Parks, Schools and the Eagle itself.
To submit a reference question to the Brooklyn Collection, please use the Library's Ask A Librarian form.
Funding for the digitization of the Brooklyn Collection images was provided by a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, while BPL continues to support the on-going cataloguing work.
www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org /brooklyncollection/photo-collections.jsp   (276 words)

  
 Gowanus Long Island New York
Brooklyn is the power house of New York's frenetic pace of life and development.
The town was unable to respond to the new environment and a degree of decay was inevitable.
Gowanus must figure near the top of the list of Brooklyn neighborhoods with greatest future value appreciation potential.
www.longislandexchange.com /brooklynqueens/gowanus.html   (540 words)

  
 outside.in · Bloggiest Neighborhoods
Since we've been tracking local bloggers in over 3,000 US neighborhoods for the past six months now, we thought it would be fun to run the numbers and finally answer the question that's been on everyone's mind: what exactly are America's bloggiest neighborhoods?
If your neighborhood's not on the list, start a placeblog and let us know about your placeblog — we'll calculate this list again next year and let you know what's changed.
Emerging from a generation of economic decay, these centrally-located 19th-century Victorian row houses and their residents harbor the rich history of this "pre-Harlem center of African-American intellectual and cultural life".
outside.in /news/bloggiest_neighborhoods.php   (825 words)

  
 listen missy
Harriet Zucker, a longtime resident of Red Hook, Brooklyn, is organizing a community photography project that is running August 12-18.
Saturday morning, when I was out taking photos of it and the Brooklyn beach and floating pool on what turned out to be an accidentally exposed and therefore ruined roll of film, I saw a number of sailors walking around, mostly in civilian clothes, but a few in unrecognizable sailor's uniforms.
My neighborhood place was great--it always smelled nice, I gained some acquaintances among the regulars, and I could try out a variety of times and teachers until I found the right fit.
listenmissy.com /blog   (2705 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Neighborhoods: Music: Olu Dara   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On the title track, with its urbane rimshots and catchy guitar hooks, Dara pays tribute to Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Queensbridge projects, where his son, Nas, initiated the next phase of hip-hop.
Ultimately, however, "Neighborhoods" is a little too much like "In The World." Dara really hasn't developed much as an artist since his last album.
Indeed Neighborhoods picks up right where Natchez left off but on first listen I was disappointed.
www.amazon.com /Neighborhoods-Olu-Dara/dp/B00004ZC42   (1033 words)

  
 Brooklyn Community Board 6 (www.brooklyncb6.org): Neighborhoods
Red Hook, a mixed-use neighborhood combining light-to-heavy density residential uses with light-to-heavy manufacturing zones, is a peninsula that is surrounded by the Gowanus Bay, Erie Basin and the Buttermilk Channel.
The construction of the Gowanus Expressway in the late 1940’s and the opening of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel in 1950 served to geographically sever Red Hook from the rest of the district and led to divergent paths of neighborhood development.
This was Brooklyn’s first plan adopted by the City pursuant to the provisions of Section 197-a of the City Charter.
www.brooklyncb6.org /neighborhoods/?a=detail&content_id=60   (740 words)

  
 Obsolete Brooklyn Street Names
From the attached list of street names altered for the greater part since that time, it will be noticed that these changes have been greater than is generally believed.
The list may not be complete, nor free from error, but the compiler believes that it will give a fair idea how far-reaching these changes have been.
Brooklyn and Newtown Turnpike Road was replaced by Flushing Avenue.
www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/obsolete_street_names.html   (1904 words)

  
 BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture >>Useful Links
The Battle of Brooklyn was fought in Brooklyn between August 22 and August 27, 1776.
The Battle of Brooklyn (sometimes referred to as the Battle of Long Island) was the first engagement of the army of England and the army of the United States of America.
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts presents a robust schedule of classical music, opera, ballet, modern dance, popular artists in concert, Yiddish Theatre, Caribbean concerts, state-of-the-art cinema and children's programming at popular prices.
www.brooklynx.org /bric/links/links.asp   (2195 words)

  
 Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn Committee
The Brooklyn Committee meets the last Monday of every month at Ozzie's, 249 5th Avenue, between Carroll Street and Garfield Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn (see the Calendar for up-to-date listings).
The innovative $1.2 million Downtown Brooklyn project study, first ever collaborative traffic planning venture for New York City, was the result of intensive negotiations between neighborhood groups, T.A. and City officials in late 1997 and early 1998.
By far the highest priority of both T.A. and the neighborhood groups who spurred the city into conducting the planning process is to reduce the number of cars traveling on west Brooklyn streets.
www.transalt.org /campaigns/brooklyn   (399 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn (Neighborhoods of New York City): Books: Kenneth T. Jackson,John B. Manbeck   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This generously illustrated book takes us on a tour of the ninety neighborhoods of Brooklyn, with their diverse ethnic enclaves, abundance of architectural styles, and many churches and festivals.
Under the guidance of Professor John Manbeck and using the resources of the Citizens Committee for New York City, THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF BROOKLYN is a survey of Brooklyn that is as colorful and diverse as the borough itself.
Listen, I was born and bred in Brooklyn, and lived there most of my adult life, though I've voluntarily exiled myself to the southland, just had enough of winter.
www.amazon.com /Neighborhoods-Brooklyn-New-York-City/dp/0300077521   (1251 words)

  
 Williamsburg, Brooklyn
The neighborhood, formerly the most congested residential area in Brooklyn, has lost some sixty thousand inhabitants since the 1920'S. Here, with the erection in 1936-7 of Williamsburg Houses, a PWA construction project, began Brooklyn's first experiment in large-scale low-rent housing.
Williamsburg in the middle nineteenth century was a popular resort; its hotels near the Brooklyn Ferry attracted a wealthy, cosmopolitan crowd, including such gourmets and sportsmen as Commodore Vanderbilt, Jim Fisk, and William C. Whitney.
The quaintness of buildings inspired by old Dutch prototypes lends an old-world atmosphere to the terminal The market is housed in blocks of two-story brick structures, each surmounted by a watchtower and a weathercock.
www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/williamsburg.html   (992 words)

  
 Brooklyn, NY real estate guide - trulia.com
Brooklyn is in the New York City Public Schools school district.
Brooklyn real estate—use Trulia to find real estate in Brooklyn as well as real estate in other cities in New York.
Trulia's real estate guide combines a Brooklyn map with a detailed list of Brooklyn neighborhoods, ZIP codes, and nearby cities to help kick-start your search for a home in Brooklyn.
www.trulia.com /real_estate/Brooklyn-New_York   (389 words)

  
 Brooklyn!, 2nd Edition; The Ultimate Guide to New York's Most Happening Borough:Ellen Freudenheim:0312204469:eCampus.com
Brooklyn!, 3rd Edition; The Ultimate Guide to New York's Most Happening Borough
Brooklyn, on its own, would be America's fourth-largest city.
It's a hot zone for New Yorkers, who hear the buzz of urban-chic neighborhoods and a cutting-edge art scene.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0312204469&referrer=spbuilder   (180 words)

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