Neighborhood Guide

Borough Park


Borough Park (usually spelled BoroPark by its residents), is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn.

The neighborhood is home to one of the largest Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish populations in the United States. Borough Park’s commercial strips, 13th and 16th Avenues, are lined with independently owned businesses, many of them religious-themed. The few chain stores — Rite Aid, Duane Reade, the Children’s Place — are closed on Saturdays in observance of the Jewish Sabbath.

Bounded by Fort Hamilton Parkway to the west, 60th Street to the south, McDonald Avenue and Bay Parkway to the east, and McDonald Avenue to the north, the neighborhood is home to more than 300 religious institutions.