Boro Park, Brooklyn
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Borough Park Boro Park |
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| Neighborhood of Brooklyn | |
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| Nickname(s): "Baby boom capital" of New York City | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 New York
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| City |
 New York City
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| Borough |
 Brooklyn
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| Languages | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.071 sq mi (5.36 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 154,210 |
| • Density | 74,000/sq mi (29,000/km2) |
| Demographics 2013 | |
| • White | 69.35% |
| • Black | 4.30% |
| • Hispanic (of any race) | 4.90% |
| • Asian | 13.89% |
| • Other | 7.56% |
| ZIP codes | 11204, 11218–11220 |
| Median household income | $37,438 |
Borough Park (also spelled Boro Park) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, United States. The neighborhood covers an extensive grid of streets between Bensonhurst to the south, Bay Ridge to the southwest, Sunset Park to the west, Kensington to the northeast, Flatbush to the east, and Midwood to the southeast.
Borough Park is home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside of Israel, with one of the largest concentrations of Jews in the United States, and Orthodox traditions rivaling many insular communities. As the average number of children in Hasidic and Hareidi families is 6.72, Borough Park is experiencing a sharp growth in population. It is an economically diverse neighborhood.
Originally, the area was called Blythebourne, a small hamlet composed of cottages built and developed in 1887 by Electus Litchfield, and then expanded with more housing by developer William Reynolds. It was served by the Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island, a steam railroad that is today's elevated BMT West End Line; the line ran from Greenwood Cemetery to Coney Island when it was built in the 1860s. This line was put on an elevated structure in 1917.
The Sea Beach Railroad was another steam railroad. This railroad was named after the Sea Beach Palace Hotel, its southern terminal in 1879. In 1913, it was electrified and placed in an open cut.
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