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East New York

East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

East New York
East New York · Johannes Vingboons (Public domain)
The place

East New York is a residential neighborhood in the eastern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are roughly the Cemetery Belt and the Queens borough line to the north; the Queens borough line to the east; Jamaica Bay to the south; the New York City Subway's BMT Canarsie Line, the Bay Ridge Branch railroad tracks, and Van Sinderen Avenue to the west. Linden Boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Atlantic Avenue are the primary thoroughfares through East New York.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Cypress Hills Cemetery

    A military cemetery on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

  2. 02
    Marine Park

    Brigham St., Gerritsen Ave., and Flatbush Ave..

From Wikivoyage: East New York, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Original's Pizza

    Original's Pizza, or "OG's" as the locals refer to it, is home to some of the most authentic pizza you can find in South Brooklyn.

  2. 02
    Dolly's Ices

    A summertime favorite for South Brooklyn residents, Dolly's boasts a wide array of flavors which keep locals coming back for more.

  3. 03
    Mill Basin Deli

    Known for some of the best pastrami in Brooklyn, the Mill Basin Deli is a true Brooklyn/Jewish Deli.

From Wikivoyage: East New York, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to East New York

Airports
John F. Kennedy (JFK), 10 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 12 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 24 km
  • Philadelphia → East New York
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · $13–17
  • Hartford → East New York
    158 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · $15–20
  • Albany → East New York
    221 km · quickest by road, 4h 16m · $20–28
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for East New York

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 East New York. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Brooklyn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    63 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    560 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,627 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,633 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,757 km

If you know how people move in East New York – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to East New York

East New York is 5 km from Queens, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.