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Village Terrace Condominiums is located in the heart of Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York at 71 Village Road North, between McDonald Avenue and Village Road East, less than a block away from Avenue U and just a few blocks from Ocean Parkway. The property is conveniently located to all modes of transportation - half a block from the F train subway station and the B3 bus stop and a five minute drive to the Belt Parkway.

Gravesend lies between Coney Island Avenue to the east, Stillwell Avenue to the west, Kings Highway to the north, and Coney Island Creek and Shore Parkway to the south. To the east of Gravesend is Sheepshead Bay, to the northeast Midwood, to the northwest Bensonhurst, and to the west Bath Beach. To the south, across Coney Island Creek, lies the neighborhood of Coney Island, and across Shore Parkway lies Brighton Beach. The neighborhood center is still the four blocks bounded by Village Road South, Village Road East, Village Road North, and Van Sicklen Street.

Gravesend is served by three lines of the New York City Subway system: the D elevated line at the 25th Avenue and Bay 50th Street stations; the F elevated line at the Kings Highway, Avenue U, and Avenue X stations, and the N open-cut line at the Kings Highway, Avenue U, and Gravesend/86th Street stations. Gravesend is patrolled by the NYPD's 60, 61, and 62 Precincts.

Additional Neighborhood Information

Gravesend, one of the original six towns of Brooklyn, is a neighborhood where faintly visible remnants of the past underlie the shapes of future dreams. Strolling toward the neighborhood’s original center, at the inter- section of McDonald Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road, you can discern the outlines of the initial four-square, 16-acre town plan, created by Lady Moody, Gravesend’s pioneering founder. Chinese restaurants, which have popped up near Caribbean ice stands and Italian bakeries, inhabit buildings that echo with the voices of Italian owners of salumerias, delicatessens, and pastry shops, which once flourished in a more homogenous neighborhood. And houses that were subdivided during the Depression are being restored to their original single-family luster by enthusiastic new home owners.

The name Gravesend rightly blends the two influences, Dutch and English, that shaped its early development. Probably named by the Dutch authorities from the Dutch words Grafes and Ande, which together mean “end of the grove,” or “count’s beach,” During the American Revolution the invading British came ashore at Gravesend from Staten Island on August 22, 1776, and legend has it that Lady Moody’s house – which still stands at 27 Gravesend Neck Road – was used as a hospital during the Battle of Brooklyn.

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