Bay Ridge Parkway Row Houses
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Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City
borough of
Brooklyn. It is bounded by
Sunset Park to the north,
Dyker Heights to the east,
the Narrows and the
Belt Parkway to the west, and
Fort Hamilton Army Baseand the
Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge to the south. The section of Bay Ridge south of 86th Street is sometimes considered part of a sub-neighborhood called Fort Hamilton. ... The arrival of the
New York City Subway's
Fourth Avenue Line (present-day
R train) in 1916 led to its development as a residential neighborhood. Until the early 1970s, Bay Ridge was dominated by its Norwegian community, but by the late 20th and early 21st centuries, it had a large Arab, Irish, Italian, and Greek population. ..."
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