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Windsor Terrace is a quiet residential neighborhood in the northwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, situated between Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. It lies between the neighborhoods of Park Slope to the northeast and Kensington to the south.〔(NYPD Precinct Maps, Retrieved 2011-9-30 )〕〔(Brooklyn Community Boards Map, Retrieved 2011-9-30 )〕〔(NYC Department of City Planning Neighborhoods Map, Retrieved 2011-9-30 )〕〔 The neighborhood is nine blocks wide,〔 and is patrolled by the NYPD's 72nd Precinct,〔(72nd Precinct, NYPD )〕 located at 830 4th Avenue〔 in the Sunset Park neighborhood. FDNY services are provided by Engine Company 240 located at 1307 Prospect Avenue, located within the neighborhood.〔 Windsor Terrace is part of Community Board 7.〔 ==History and description== Before the coming of Europeans to the New World, the area which is now Windsor Terrace was inhabited by the Canarsee Indians. The land was purchased as a farm by John Vanderbilt, and was divided in two on his death. These were sold to William Bell, a real estate developer, in 1848 or 1849. Bell sub-divided the land into 47 building lots,〔 and, unlike some other developers in the general area,〔, p.933〕 was able to sell them rather quickly. By 1851 the development had been incorporated as the Village of Windsor Terrace, with additional blocks being developed in 1862. Fourteen years later, by 1876, the village boasted a public school, and by 1888 its own volunteer fire department.〔〔 The village remained rural in feel until around 1900, when row houses began to be built throughout the area, at first along Prospect Park Southwest. Development began to pick up place around 1925, with the building of single-family and two-family houses, stores, and apartment buildings on Prospect Avenue. Many of the new occupants of these residences were Irish-American workers, some of whose families then remained there for generations.〔〔 Even into the 1960s, Windsor Terrace was an isolated neighborhood with a quiet small-town feel to it, although the construction of the Prospect Expressway brought more through-traffic into the area. Gentrification of the neighborhood began in the 1980s, with families who could not afford the prices in Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope coming to Windsor Terrace instead. Additional two-family housing funded with publicly assistance were built and sold by lottery. In the late 1980s, the neighborhood was rezoned to prevent the construction of high-rise buildings, guaranteeing that much of the quality of this family-oriented neighborhood would remain into the future.〔〔 , after the closing of the only supermarket in the neighborhood – as in other gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn – a food co-op, using the model of the Park Slope Food Coop, was in the process of being organized. When opened, it is projected to serve both as a supplier of food and a community focal point. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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