Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd Avenue and on the southwest by 86th Street. It is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Dyker Heights to the northwest, Borough Park and Mapleton to the northeast, Bath Beach to the southwest, and Gravesend to the southeast.
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Worth seeing in and around Bensonhurst
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows.
3.7 km · bridge in New York City · Wikipedia - 02Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects.
8.2 km · art museum in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia - 03Barclays Center
Barclays Center is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Brooklyn, New York City, US. The arena is home to the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association and the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association. The arena also hosts concerts, conventions and other sporting and entertainment events.
9.2 km · arena in New York, United States · Wikipedia - 04Prospect Park
Prospect Park is a 526-acre urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
7 km · public park in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia - 05Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolled nearly 14,000 students on a 35-acre campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall 2023.
5.2 km · senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn · Wikipedia - 06Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The botanical garden occupies 52 acres in central Brooklyn, close to Mount Prospect Park, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum.
7.9 km · botanical garden in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia - 07Brooklyn Tower
The Brooklyn Tower is a supertall mixed-use, primarily residential skyscraper in the Downtown Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City. Developed by JDS Development Group, it is situated on the north side of DeKalb Avenue near Flatbush Avenue.
9.9 km · skyscraper in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia - 08New York Transit Museum
The New York Transit Museum is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems in the greater New York City metropolitan region. The main museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
9.8 km · museum in New York City, USA · Wikipedia - 09To the Struggle Against World Terrorism
To the Struggle Against World Terrorism is a 10–story sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli that was given to the United States as an official gift from the Russian government as a memorial to the victims of the September 11 attacks in 2001, and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It stands at the end of the former Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, New Jersey.
8.8 km · sculpture by Zurab Tsereteli · Wikipedia - 10Brooklyn Public Library
The Brooklyn Public Library is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors.
8.2 km · public library system in New York City · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bensonhurst
- Airports
- Newark Liberty (EWR), 17 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 19 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 22 km
- Stations
- New York Harbor, 8.1 km · Port of New York and New Jersey, 8.1 km · Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center, 9.2 km · Floyd Bennett Field, 9.5 km · Bay 50th Street, 2.1 km
- Philadelphia → Bensonhurst123 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · $12–16
- Hartford → Bensonhurst169 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · $16–21
- Albany → Bensonhurst229 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · $20–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bensonhurst
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bensonhurst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe [http://www.nywatertaxi.com Water Taxi, at Fulton Ferry Landing, provides service from various points in Manhattan along the East River.
- Get inThe Water Taxi has service between southern Manhattan and Red Hook, often used by customers of the Red Hook Ikea.
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Next door to Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst is 7 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Brooklynborough of New York City, New York, United States6.9 km
- Coney Islandcoastal neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA3.5 km
- Brighton Beachneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States4.4 km
- The Narrowsstrait in New York City, USA4.1 km
- Park Slopeneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States8 km
- Crown Heightsneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, USA8.2 km