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Windsor Terrace is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Prospect Park to the northeast and Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark,
to the southwest. Its southeastern boundary is Caton Avenue, while to
the northwest it is bordered by Prospect Park West. It is between the
neighborhoods of Park Slope to the northwest and Kensington to the southeast.
The subway arrived in 1933 with the building of the IND South Brooklyn Line, the "Culver Line," which includes the F and G train stops of 15th Street-Prospect Park and Fort Hamilton Parkway.
Largely residential, Windsor Terrace is home to mainly Irish, German-American, Polish-American and Italian-American
families, many having settled in its brick rowhouses and small
woodframe homes when the neighborhood was first developed at the turn of
the Twentieth Century. Over time, Windsor Terrace has become
increasingly diverse, including Greek and Hispanic people, in addition to a small minority of Syrians, Maronite Lebanese and Jewish-Americans. More recently, an influx of Park Slope and Manhattan refugees as a result of "gentrification" has pushed house prices well above average. The neighborhood public schools, P.S. 154 and P.S. 130, are well regarded.
They are some of the primary attractions of the neighborhood for both
the traditional Windsor Terrace community and the Park Slope spillover.
Both schools feature a number of special enrichment programs for
students, such as chess and journalism. Both schools received "A" grades
in the 2010-11 New York City Department of Education Progress Reports.
The Prospect Expressway
runs through the middle of the neighborhood, effectively separating it
into two halves. Some neighborhood streets, such as Greenwood Avenue and
Vanderbilt Street, were bisected by the expressway and remain so, while
others, such as Seeley Street, 11th Avenue/Terrace Place, and Prospect
Park West, are bridged over the highway. Windsor Terrace is patrolled by
the NYPD's 72nd Precinct.
Windsor Terrace lays claim to several writers of note, including Pete Hamill and brother Denis Hamill. Paul Auster, perhaps Brooklyn's current favorite laureate, lives nearby. Isaac Asimov
lived in Windsor Terrace when his father ran a small candy store on
Windsor Place. It is believed Asimov wrote his famous short story Nightfall in his bedroom in the family home across the street
Kensington Stables is the only remaining stable near Prospect Park
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