Found: The Brooklyn Residence that’s Farthest from the Subway

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October 23, 2014

Last week I found the farthest apartment from a subway in Manhattan. It was a mere 0.7 miles from the nearest subway entrance.

After that post, I got several requests that I do the same in my very own home borough of Brooklyn. So I joined building lot data, neighborhood name data and subway entrance data to create a subway distance map of Brooklyn. The result is below:

Darker areas are farther from subway entrances. The ranking of all Brooklyn neighborhoods based on subway distance is below:

The five neighborhoods whose centers are farthest from the subway are Marine Park, Sea Gate, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, and Mill Island. (Note that they all have nautical terms.)

And the home that is farthest from a subway in Brooklyn is… 2336 National Drive in Mill Basin:

Google Street View

The property, which is on the left side of this picture, was described in a real estate listing as a “Fisherman’s dream” and sold for $860,000 in 2012. It is about 2.2 miles from the nearest subway as the pigeon flies. (It’s a bit longer if you have to stick to the road).

Google Maps

The best part? The property has its own dock. So while you may be far from the subway, you might just be a quick ride from the Statue of Liberty.

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Lot data comes from Pluto
Neighborhood Location/Name data comes from Bytes of Big Apple
Subway Entrance data comes form the Open Data Portal
Graph made using QGIS.

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