Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, NY

Residents of Windsor Terrace are located in the heart of Brooklyn in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn. Prospect Park borders it on the east and northeast, Park Slope, Green-Wood Cemetery, and Borough Park, and Kensington, at Caton Avenue, border it on the northwest, west, and southwest. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Windsor Terrace’s 0.503-square-mile (1.30 km2) population was home to 20,988 people.

With 11215 and 11218 as its two most populous ZIP codes, Windsor Terrace is located in Brooklyn’s Community District 7. The 72nd Precinct of the New York City Police Department is responsible for keeping an eye on it. Firefighting services are provided by Engine Company 240/Battalion 48 of the New York City Fire Department. New York City Council Districts 38 and 39 are responsible for representing Windsor Terrace.

Captain Vincent E. Brunton Way” has been renamed in honor of the New York City Fire Department captain who was killed in the September 11 attacks. This stretch of 10th Avenue is also known as “John P. Devaney Boulevard” in honor of the late firefighter who lost his life trying to save the occupants of a burning Red Hook building in 1989.

Windsor Terrace has three traffic circles that surround Prospect Park’s border, which is unusual in New York City. Located at the crossroads of Prospect Park West, Prospect Park Southwest, and 15th Street, the Bartel-Pritchard Square is a medium-sized traffic circle with an exquisite entrance enclosed by two columns. Prospect Park Southwest and 16th Street now have a traffic circle that was once a circle but no longer is.

There is a large traffic circle at Prospect Park Southwest that links Prospect Park Southwest with Coney Island Avenue, Parkside Avenue, Ocean Boulevard and Fort Hamilton Boulevard. It was restored in 2010 to its former glory as the southernmost point of convergence. A similar design may be found at the Bartel-Pritchard Square entrance, which leads into Prospect Park from Park Circle. Windsor Terrace is overseen by the NYPD’s 72nd Precinct, which has its headquarters at 830 4th Avenue.

When it comes to per capita crime, the 72nd Precinct in New York City was placed 16th of 69 patrol areas in 2010. The 72nd Precinct has become one of the safest precincts in Brooklyn since the 1990s. There was a 79.1 percent decrease in total crime in the 72nd Precinct from 1990 to 2018; this is a substantial improvement over the previous decade. In 2018, the precinct recorded 2 homicides, 32 rapes, 185 robberies, 209 felony assaults, 153 burglaries, 468 grand larcenies, and 77 auto grand larcenies.

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Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, NY

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