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Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn

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Houses on Hudson Street in Vinegar Hill
Houses on Hudson Street in Vinegar Hill

Vinegar Hill is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on the East River Waterfront between Dumbo and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The neighborhood is locally governed by Brooklyn Community Board 2 and is policed by the New York City Police Department's 84th Precinct. The large Irish-American population in Vinegar Hill made it one of several New York City neighborhoods once known colloquially as Irishtown.

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11201 New York, Brooklyn
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