Gravesend, Brooklyn

Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. It is bounded by the Belt Parkway to the south, Bay Parkway to the west, Avenue P to the north, and Ocean Parkway to the east. Gravesend was one of the original towns in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. After the English took over, it was one of the six original towns of Kings County in colonial New York. Gravesend was the only English chartered town in what became Kings County and is notable as being one of the first towns founded by a woman, Deborah, Lady Moody. The town of Gravesend encompassed 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) in southern Kings County, including the entire peninsula of Coney Island, and was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 1894. The modern-day neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 11, Brooklyn Community Board 13 and Brooklyn Community Board 15. As of 2020, Gravesend had a population of 30,587.