NY It is made up of different neighborhoods. Although one of the best known is Brooklyn, We can't forget Midwood. This is an area that is located in the Brooklyn neighborhood in the south central part. Its limits are to the north with Bay Ridge Branch and the Brooklyn University campus, on its south side is P Avenue and Kings Highway and finally to the west is Ocean Parkway Avenue.
The neighborhood of Midwood It got its name from the Dutch word "Midwout". The settlers who arrived from the Netherlands at that time thus referred to an area of dense forest between the town of Boswyck and Breuckelen. The dutch they began to settle in the area in 1652 and later the English arrived. It was not until the 1920s that apartment buildings began to be built in the neighborhood.
Little by little a lot of residents Midwood began to move away to the suburbs in the 1970s and it was not until 1980 when a revival occurred and new residents began to move to the neighborhood to become an international neighborhood when groups of immigrants from around the world began to arrive.
The largest group of immigrants that settled in Midwood was the Russian, the groups from South America, Europe and the Baltic countries, among others and even groups of immigrants coming from as far away as India, China and Korea. Midwood has different institutions Educational, including some of the most prominent are Brooklyn College and Midwood High University.
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