Brooklyn topographic map
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn’s topography is shaped by its position on western Long Island, where low coastal plains, harbor margins, and glacial landforms meet in a densely urbanized landscape. Much of southern and eastern Brooklyn forms a gently sloping outwash plain that descends toward Jamaica Bay, Coney Island, Gravesend Bay, and the Atlantic-facing shore, while the central and northwestern parts rise into a modest but distinct belt of hills associated with the terminal moraine that runs through Brooklyn and Queens. This moraine gives areas around Prospect Park, Park Slope, Sunset Park, and Green-Wood Cemetery a more rolling physical character, with short ridges, knolls, and locally sharper relief compared with the flatter coastal neighborhoods. Green-Wood’s Battle Hill is widely identified as Brooklyn’s highest natural point, standing a little over 200 ft above sea level, and it illustrates how the borough’s most pronounced elevations are glacial rather than bedrock mountain forms. Overall, Brooklyn presents a subdued but varied urban terrain: low tidal edges and reclaimed waterfronts around the harbor, broad sandy plains toward the south, and a central moraine ridge that provides the borough’s main elevation contrast and long views across New York Harbor.
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Name: Brooklyn topographic map, elevation, terrain.
Location: Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, United States (40.55034 -74.05669 40.73943 -73.83295)
Average elevation: 9 m
Minimum elevation: -10 m
Maximum elevation: 62 m
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