Community boards of Brooklyn

[3]60 The 1963 revision of the New York City Charter extended the Borough of Manhattan's "Community Planning Councils" (est.

Its boundaries currently extend from Flushing Avenue on the north, Broadway on the southwest, the border with Queens to the northeast, and the Cemetery of the Evergreens on the southeast.

Brooklyn Community Board 6 includes Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill.

It is delimited by Gowanus Bay on the west, 15th Street and Prospect Park South West on the north, Caton Avenue, Fort Hamilton Parkway, 37th Street and 8th Avenue on the east, as well as by the Long Island Rail Road and Bay Ridge R.R.

Brooklyn Community Board 9 includes Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Wingate.

Brooklyn Community Board 10 includes Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Fort Hamilton.

Brooklyn Community Board 12 includes Borough Park, Kensington, Ocean Parkway, and Midwood.

Brooklyn Community Board 13 includes Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, and Seagate.

Brooklyn Community Board 16 includes Brownsville, Ocean Hill and a portion of Bedford-Stuyvesant.