Betsy Head Park, New York City

#1354 among attractions in New York City

Park, Streamline Moderne architecture

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Betsy Head Park is a 10.55-acre public park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The park occupies two non-contiguous plots diagonally across from each other at the intersection of Dumont Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street, covering a collective 10.55 acres. The modern-day park contains a playground, a swimming complex, and fields for baseball, football, tennis, and basketball. The park's swimming complex, the Betsy Head Play Center, was designed by Ely Jacques Kahn and consists of a bathhouse, a general swimming pool, and an infilled diving pool. The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, also known as NYC Parks. ()

Elevation: 26 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 40°39'45"N, 73°54'49"W

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Eastern Brooklyn (Brownsville)New York City United States

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Betsy Head Park – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Atlantic Avenue, Eastern Parkway, Billie Holiday Theatre, Weeksville Heritage Center.

1.6 miNW
Street
Atlantic Avenue, Sea Gate
40 min walk • Atlantic Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. It stretches from the Brooklyn waterfront on the East River all the way to Jamaica, Queens.
1.3 miW
Park
Eastern Parkway, Sea Gate
34 min walk • Eastern Parkway is a major road that runs through a portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it was the world's first parkway, having been built between 1870 and 1874.
1.1 miW
Theater
Billie Holiday Theatre, Sea Gate
28 min walk • The Billie Holiday Theatre is as 218-seat theatre located in the New York neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It opened in May 1972, It was founded by the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation.
1 miNW
Museum, History museum, Art gallery
Weeksville Heritage Center, New York City
26 min walk • The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site on Buffalo Avenue between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.
1.3 miS
Museum, History museum, Vernacular architecture
Wyckoff House, New York City
34 min walk • The Wyckoff House, or Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House, is a historic house at 5816 Clarendon Road in the Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The house is within Milton Fidler Park.
1.2 miN
Square
Chief Charles A. Joshua Plaza, New York City
32 min walk • Chief Charles A. Joshua Plaza is a.22-acre public space located at the crossroads of Ralph Avenue, Fulton Street and Macdougal Street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
0.8 miNE
Street
Liberty Avenue, New York City
20 min walk • Liberty Avenue is an 8-mile long west-east avenue in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City. It is bidirectional for most of its length, running between Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brooklyn in the west and Farmers Boulevard in Queens in the east.