South Brooklyn
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South Brooklyn is a historic term<ref name=encnyc /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> for a section of the former City of Brooklyn – now the New York City borough of Brooklyn – encompassing what are now the Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Gowanus, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and Red Hook neighborhoods.<ref name=encnyc>"Carroll Gardens" in Template:Cite enc-nyc2, p.1213</ref><ref name=cobbledesrep>"Cobble Hill Historic District Designation Report" New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (December 30, 1969)</ref><ref>"Carroll Gardens" in Template:Cite brookneighb, p.55</ref> It was named for its location along the waterfront<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> that was the southern border of the original Village of Brooklyn, and has remained widely used<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as a colloquialism despite it no longer being the southernmost point of the borough.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It should not be confused with the geographic southern region of the modern borough of Brooklyn, which includes the neighborhoods of Gravesend, Seagate, Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach, Marine Park, Mill Basin, and Bergen Beach.
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"South Brooklyn" or "Southern Brooklyn" is also in use in the modern borough of Brooklyn, but without total consistency as to what it refers to. It has been used about neighborhoods as various and physically separated as Mill Basin, Bensonhurst,<ref>Goldensohn, Rosa. "Police Identify Man Sought for Raping his Girlfriend in South Brooklyn" Template:Webarchive DNAinfo (August 25, 2014)</ref> Carroll Gardens,<ref>"Dining Briefs: South Brooklyn Pizza and Artisanal" The New York Times (June i8, 2008)</ref> Gowanus,<ref>Blau, Eleanor. "Neighborhood Report: South Brooklyn;The Mr. Fix-It of the Pipe Organ The New York Times (December 24, 1995)</ref> Red Hook,<ref>Venugopal, Nikhita. "Red Hook Transfer School's Cheerleading Team Is Only for the 'Tough'" Template:Webarchive DNAinfo (January 27, 2014)</ref> Smith Street,<ref>"Smith Street - Shops, Restaurants, Bars Singles, Couples and Family Living" South Brooklyn Local Development Corporation website</ref> Sunset Park,<ref>South Brooklyn Marine Terminal website</ref> Windsor Terrace,<ref>Albrecht, Leslie. "South Brooklyn Rezoning Will Save P.S. 154 Science Lab, Principal Says" Template:Webarchive DNAinfo (November 11, 2014)</ref> as well as Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Park Slope.<ref>Wisloski, Jess. "Power Outage Affecting 7,500 in South Brooklyn is Over, Con Ed Says" Template:Webarchive DNAinfo (February 15, 2014)</ref>Template:Efn
Transportation
The New York City Subway's IND Culver Line (Template:NYCS trains) serves the area at the Carroll Street and Smith–Ninth Streets stations.<ref>Template:NYCS const</ref> The line was originally named the "South Brooklyn Line" on some official subway maps.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> However, this obsolete name for the Culver Line may have referred to the South Brooklyn Railway, the original right of way of the BMT Culver Line; this right-of-way originally ran between Sunset Park, in the southern part of the former city of Brooklyn, and Coney Island, the southernmost area in the modern borough of Brooklyn.<ref>BMT Culver Line on nycsubway.org</ref>
The Template:NYC bus link bus routes serve South Brooklyn as well.<ref>Template:Cite NYC bus map</ref>
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