List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn facts for kids

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The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) was created in 1965. It's a special group in New York City's government that helps protect important buildings and places. They make sure these places are kept safe for future generations to enjoy.

The LPC decides which places are "landmarks." These can be individual buildings, parts of buildings (like a fancy lobby), beautiful outdoor spaces, or even whole neighborhoods. Once a place is a landmark, it means it's historically or architecturally important, and changes to it are carefully reviewed.

The New York City borough of Brooklyn has many of these special landmarks. This list shows some of them. Some are also called National Historic Landmark (NHL) sites, which means they are important to the whole country!

Source: Information from the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and Neighborhood Preservation Center; dates show when a place became a landmark.

Historic Neighborhoods: Explore Brooklyn's Past
Individual Landmarks: Special Buildings and Places
Interior Landmarks: Hidden Gems Inside Buildings
Scenic Landmarks: Beautiful Outdoor Spaces
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Historic Neighborhoods: Explore Brooklyn's Past

Brooklyn is home to many historic neighborhoods, also known as historic districts. These areas have lots of buildings that share a similar style or history. The Landmarks Preservation Commission works to protect the unique look and feel of these places.

Albemarle-Kenmore Terraces Historic District (Designated: July 11, 1978)
Alice and Agate Courts Historic District (Designated: February 10, 2009)
Bay Ridge Parkway-Doctors' Row Historic District (Designated: June 25, 2019)
Bedford Historic District (Designated: December 8, 2015)
Boerum Hill Historic District (Designated: November 20, 1973; expanded: June 26, 2018)
Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District (Designated: September 13, 2011)
Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District (Designated: September 26, 1978)
Brooklyn Heights Historic District (Designated: November 23, 1965)
Carroll Gardens Historic District (Designated: September 25, 1973)
Central Sunset Park Historic District (Designated: June 18, 2019)
Chester Court Historic District (Designated: December 16, 2014)
Clinton Hill Historic District (Designated: November 10, 1981)
Cobble Hill Historic District (Designated: December 20, 1969; expanded: June 7, 1988)
Crown Heights North Historic District (Designated: April 24, 2007; Phase II: June 28, 2011)
Ditmas Park Historic District (Designated: August 29, 1981)
DUMBO Historic District (Designated: December 18, 2007)
East 25th Street Historic District (Designated: November 17, 2020)
Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District (Designated: October 30, 2007)
Fillmore Place Historic District (Designated: May 12, 2009)
Fiske Terrace - Midwood Park Historic District (Designated: March 18, 2008)
Fort Greene Historic District (Designated: September 26, 1978)
Fulton Ferry Historic District (Designated: June 28, 1977)
Greenpoint Historic District (Designated: May 7, 1991)
Melrose Parkside Historic District (Designated: December 13, 2022)
Ocean on the Park Historic District (Designated: October 27, 2009)
Park Place Historic District (Designated: June 26, 2012)
Park Slope Historic District (Designated: July 17, 1973)
Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District (Designated: October 9, 1979)
Prospect Heights Historic District (Designated: June 23, 2009)
Prospect Park South Historic District (Designated: February 8, 1979)
Stuyvesant Heights Historic District (Designated: September 14, 1971)
Sunset Park 50th Street Historic District (Designated: June 18, 2019)
Sunset Park North Historic District (Designated: June 18, 2019)
Sunset Park South Historic District (Designated: June 18, 2019)
Vinegar Hill Historic District (Designated: January 14, 1997)
Wallabout Historic District (Designated: July 12, 2011)

Individual Landmarks: Special Buildings and Places

These are single buildings or structures that have been recognized as important landmarks. They often have unique architecture or a significant history.

Landmarks by Number

14th Regiment Armory (Designated: April 14, 1998)
Former 18th Police Precinct Station House and Stable (Designated: April 12, 1983)
183-195 Broadway Building (Designated: December 13, 2016)
Former 19th Police Precinct Station House and Stable (Designated: September 21, 1973)
238 President Street House, Carroll Gardens (Designated: September 18, 2018)
23rd Regiment Armory (Designated: March 8, 1977)
271 Ninth Street House (William B. Cronyn House) (Designated: July 11, 1978)
8200 Narrows Avenue House (Designated: March 8, 1988)
83rd Police Precinct Station House and Stable (Designated: March 8, 1977)

Landmarks A-M

Alhambra Apartments (Designated: March 18, 1986)
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Brooklyn Office, Shelter, and Garage (Designated: October 29, 2019)
Antioch (Greene Avenue) Baptist Church and Church House (Designated: November 20, 1990)
Astral Apartments (Designated: June 28, 1983)
Avenue H Station House (Designated: June 29, 2004)
Bennet-Farrell-Feldman House, 119 95th St, Bay Ridge (Designated: August 3, 1999)
F.J. Berlenbach House, 174 Meserole St, Greenpoint (Designated: May 11, 2004)
Betsy Head Play Center, Brownsville (Designated: September 16, 2008)
Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park (Designated: October 14, 1965)
Boys High School (Designated: September 23, 1975)
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Laboratory Administration Building (Designated: March 13, 2007)
Brooklyn Borough Hall (Designated: April 19, 1966)
Brooklyn Bridge (Designated: August 24, 1967)
Brooklyn Central Office, Bureau of Fire Communications (Designated: April 19, 1966)
Brooklyn City Railroad Company Building (Designated: February 20, 1973)
Brooklyn Clay Retort and Fire Brick Works Storehouse (Designated: December 18, 2001)
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn Museum) (Designated: March 15, 1966)
Brooklyn Naval Hospital, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard (Designated: October 14, 1965)
Brooklyn Public Library, Central Building (Designated: June 17, 1997)
Brooklyn Public Library, DeKalb Branch (Designated: May 18, 2004)
Brooklyn Public Library, Park Slope Branch (Designated: October 13, 1998)
Brooklyn Public Library, Williamsburgh Branch (Designated: June 15, 1999)
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) Central Power Station Engine House (Designated: October 29, 2019)
Brooklyn Trust Company Building (Chemical Bank Building) (Designated: June 25, 1996)
Brooklyn Union Gas Company Headquarters (St. Francis College) (Designated: May 10, 2011)
Carroll Street Bridge (Designated: September 29, 1987)
Childs Restaurant Building (Coney Island USA) (Designated: January 11, 2011)
Former Childs Restaurant Building on the Coney Island Boardwalk (Designated: February 4, 2003)
Hans S. Christian Memorial Kindergarten (Designated: September 18, 2018)
Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew (Episcopal) (Designated: May 12, 1981)
Coe House (Designated: November 19, 1969)
Coignet Building (Designated: June 13, 2006)
Former Colored School No. 3 (Public School 69) (Designated: January 13, 1998)
Commandant's House, Quarters A (Designated: October 14, 1965)
The Cyclone (Designated: June 12, 1988)
Dime Savings Bank (Designated: July 19, 1994)
Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh (Designated: March 27, 2018)
Doering-Bohack House (Designated: September 30, 2014)
Dry Dock#1, Brooklyn Navy Yard (Designated: September 23, 1975)
Duffield Street Houses (Johnson Street Houses) (Designated: April 24, 2001)
East New York Savings Bank (Designated: March 8, 2016)
George B. and Susan Elkins House (Designated: October 24, 2006)
James W. and Lucy S. Elwell House (Designated: December 12, 2006)
Emmanuel Baptist Church (Designated: November 12, 1968)
Empire State Dairy Company Building (Designated: December 7, 2012)
Engine Company No. 252 (Designated: October 19, 1995)
Engine Company No. 253 (Designated: September 15, 1998)
Erasmus Hall Academy (Erasmus Hall Museum) (Designated: March 15, 1966)
Erasmus Hall High School (Designated: June 24, 2003)
Federal Building and Post Office (Designated: July 19, 1966)
First Free Congregational Church (Polytechnic Institute Building) (Designated: November 24, 1981)
Flatbush District No. 1 School (Public School 90) (Designated: November 20, 2007)
Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church (Designated: March 15, 1966; expanded: January 9, 1979)
Flatbush Sears (Designated: May 15, 2012)
Flatbush Town Hall (Designated: October 16, 1973)
Flatlands Reformed Church (Designated: July 19, 1966)
Fort Hamilton Officers' Club (Casemate Fort) (Designated: March 8, 1977)
Friends Meeting House (Designated: October 27, 1981)
Gage and Tollner (Designated: November 12, 1974)
Girls High School (Designated: June 28, 1983)
Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel Pumping Station and Gate House (Designated: October 29, 2019)
Grecian Shelter (Designated: December 10, 1968)
Green-Wood Cemetery Gates (Designated: April 19, 1966)
Green-Wood Cemetery Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance and Chapel (Designated: April 12, 2016)
Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church (Designated: October 13, 1970)
Havemeyers & Elder Filter, Pan & Finishing House (Domino Sugar Refinery) (Designated: September 25, 2007)
Hecla Iron Works Building (Designated: June 8, 2004)
Historic Street Lampposts, Bay Ridge (Designated: June 17, 1997)
Hubbard House (Designated: January 13, 2009)
Peter P. and Rosa M. Huberty House (Designated: October 24, 2017)
Houses on Hunterfly Road (Designated: August 18, 1970)
Imperial Apartments (Designated: March 18, 1986)
Kings County Savings Bank (Designated: March 15, 1966)
Lefferts Homestead (Designated: June 21, 1966)
Lefferts-Laidlaw House (Designated: November 13, 2001)
Lesbian Herstory Archives (Designated: November 22, 2022)
Dr. Maurice T. Lewis House (Designated: March 6, 2018)
Lincoln Club (Mechanics Temple) (Designated: May 12, 1981)
Litchfield Villa (Designated: March 15, 1966)
Former Long Island Headquarters of the New York Telephone Company (Designated: September 21, 2004)
Hendrick I. Lott House (Designated: October 3, 1989)
F.W.I.L. Lundy Brothers Restaurant Building (Designated: March 3, 1992)
Magen David Synagogue (Designated: April 24, 2001)
Magnolia grandiflora (Designated: May 12, 1970)
McCarren Play Center (Designated: July 24, 2007)
Montauk Paint Manufacturing Company Building (Designated: October 29, 2019)

Landmarks N-Z

A. I. Namm & Son Department Store (Designated: March 15, 2005)
National Title Guaranty Company Building (Designated: January 24, 2017)
New England Congregational Church (Designated: November 24, 1981)
New Lots Reformed Church (Designated: July 19, 1966)
New Utrecht Reformed Church and Parish House (Designated: March 15, 1966; expanded: January 13, 1998)
New Utrecht Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery (Designated: January 13, 1998)
New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company Building (Designated: June 27, 2006)
Former New York and New Jersey Telephone and Telegraph Building (Designated: June 29, 2004)
Offerman Building (Designated: March 15, 2005)
Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters (Designated: April 19, 1966)
Old Gravesend Cemetery (Van Sicklen Family Cemetery) (Designated: March 23, 1976)
Parachute Jump (Designated: May 23, 1989)
People's Trust Company Building (Designated: January 24, 2017)
Pratt Institute Faculty Rowhouses (Designated: December 22, 1981)
Pratt Institute Library (Designated: December 22, 1981)
Pratt Institute Main Building (Designated: December 22, 1981)
Public Bath No. 7 (Designated: September 11, 1984)
Public School 108 (Designated: February 3, 1981)
Public School 116 (Elizabeth Farrell School) (Designated: June 25, 2002)
Public School 34 (Designated: April 12, 1983)
Public School 39 (Designated: March 8, 1977)
Public School 65K (Designated: February 3, 1981)
Public School 71K (Beth Jacob School) (Designated: February 3, 1981)
Public School 73 (Designated: September 11, 1984)
Public School 86 (Irvington School) (Designated: April 23, 1991)
Public School 9 (Designated: January 10, 1978)
Public School 9 Annex (Designated: January 10, 1978)
John Rankin House (Designated: July 14, 1970)
Red Hook Play Center (Sol Goldman Pool) (Designated: November 18, 2008)
Reformed Church of South Bushwick (Designated: March 19, 1968)
Renaissance Apartments (Designated: March 18, 1986)
Royal Castle Apartments (Designated: December 22, 1981)
Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord (Designated: November 19, 1969)
Elias Hubbard Ryder House (Designated: March 23, 1976)
Shore Theater (Coney Island Theater) (Designated: December 14, 2010)
Somers Brothers Tinware Factory (Designated: October 29, 2019)
St. Barbara's Roman Catholic Church (Designated: December 13, 2016)
St. Bartholemew's Church (Designated: March 19, 1974)
St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church (Designated: October 25, 2011)
St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church (Designated: January 11, 1977)
St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Designated: October 27, 1981)
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Sunday School and Parsonage (Designated: April 12, 2011)
Shelter Pavilion and Attached Buildings, Monsignor McGolrick Park (Designated: October 18, 1966)
Sidewalk Clock, 753 Manhattan Avenue (Designated: August 25, 1981)
Smith & Gray Company Building (Designated: June 7, 2005)
Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch (Designated: October 16, 1973)
South Congregational Church, Chapel, Ladies Parlor, and Rectory (Designated: March 23, 1982)
State Street Houses (Designated: November 20, 1973)
Steele House (Designated: March 19, 1968)
Stoothoff-Baxter-Kouwenhoven House (Designated: March 23, 1976)
Studebaker Building (Designated: December 19, 2000)
Former Sunset Park Courthouse (Designated: June 26, 2001)
Sunset Play Center (Designated: July 24, 2007)
Surgeon's House, Brooklyn Navy Yard (Designated: November 9, 1976)
Thomson Meter Company Building (New York Eskimo Pie Corporation Building) (Designated: February 10, 2004)
Harriet and Thomas Truesdell House (Designated: February 2, 2021)
Van Sicklen House (Designated: April 12, 2016)
John and Elizabeth Truslow House (Designated: September 16, 1997)
Van Nuyse-Magaw House (Designated: February 11, 1969)
Weir Greenhouse (McGovern-Weir Greenhouse) (Designated: April 13, 1982)
William Ulmer Brewery (Designated: May 11, 2010)
Williamsburg Houses (Designated: June 24, 2003)
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building (175 Broadway) (Designated: May 17, 1966)
Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower (Designated: November 15, 1977)
Williamsburgh Trust Company Building (Designated: June 28, 2016)
The Wonder Wheel (Designated: May 23, 1989)
Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House (Designated: October 14, 1965)
Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead (Designated: January 17, 1968)

Interior Landmarks: Hidden Gems Inside Buildings

These landmarks protect the special insides of certain buildings. It means the inside design, like a grand banking hall or a historic subway station, is important and must be preserved.

IRT Subway System Underground Interior (Borough Hall station)
- Location: Fulton Street and Court Street, Downtown Brooklyn
- Designated: October 23, 1979
- What it is: The original inside parts of a subway station built in 1908. It's also a National Registered Historic Place.
Brooklyn Trust Company (entrance vestibule and banking room interior)
- Location: 177–179 Montague Street, Brooklyn Heights
- Designated: June 25, 1996
- What it is: The fancy entrance and main banking room. The outside of this building is also a landmark, and it's a National Registered Historic Place.
Dime Savings Bank (entrance vestibule and banking room interior)
- Location: 9 DeKalb Avenue, Downtown Brooklyn
- Designated: June 25, 1996
- What it is: The grand entrance and main banking room. The outside of this building is also a landmark.
Gage and Tollner (dining room interior)
- Location: 372 Fulton Street, Downtown Brooklyn
- Designated: March 25, 1975
- What it is: The historic dining room of this famous restaurant. The outside of this building is also a landmark, and it's a National Registered Historic Place.
Long Island Historical Society Building
- Location: 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights
- Designated: March 23, 1982
- What it is: The interior of this historic building. It's also a National Historic Landmark and part of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District.
Sunset Play Center Bath House (first floor interior)
- Location: 7th Avenue, between 41st and 44th Streets, Sunset Park
- Designated: July 24, 2007
- What it is: The inside of the bathhouse at the play center. The outside of this building is also a landmark.
Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Broadway (entrance vestibule and banking room interior)
- Location: 175 Broadway, Williamsburg
- Designated: June 25, 1996
- What it is: The entrance and main banking room. The outside of this building is also a landmark, and it's a National Registered Historic Place.
Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Hanson Place (entrance vestibule, lobby, banking room, mezzanine, and basement lobby interior)
- Location: 1 Hanson Place, Fort Greene
- Designated: June 25, 1996
- What it is: Many of the important interior spaces of this tall building. The outside of this building is also a landmark, and it's part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Historic District.

Scenic Landmarks: Beautiful Outdoor Spaces

These are outdoor areas that are recognized for their natural beauty or special design. They are important green spaces and scenic routes in Brooklyn.

Coney Island (Riegelmann) Boardwalk (Designated: May 15, 2018)
Eastern Parkway (Designated: August 22, 1978)
Ocean Parkway (Designated: January 28, 1975)
Prospect Park (Designated: November 25, 1975)