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Kensington is a neighborhood in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, located south of Prospect Park and the Green-Wood Cemetery. It is bordered by Coney Island Avenue to the east, Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue to the north, McDonald Avenue and 36th Street to the west, and 18th Avenue to the south. The neighborhoods that border Kensington and Parkville are Ditmas Park and Prospect Park South to the east, Windsor Terrace to the north, Borough Park to the west, and Midwood to the south.
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Kensington is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, which straddles Lower Northeast and North Philadelphia. It is part of the River Wards section of Philadelphia. Modern Kensington is larger than the former Kensington District, and unlike the latter, the former does not include Fishtown.
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West Kensington is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia. It is north of Olde Kensington. The Market Frankford El above Front Street forms the line between West Kensington and Kensington. Its bordering neighborhoods are Kensington to the east, Harrowgate to the northeast, and Fairhill to the west. It is bounded by Kensington Avenue to the east, American Street to the west, York Street to the South and Allegheny Avenue to the north.
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Kensington is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. Its borders are defined by Interstate 15 to the west, Interstate 8 to the north, Fairmount Avenue to the east, and Monroe Street to the south. Its neighboring communities are Normal Heights to the west, and City Heights to the south. Kensington is part of San Diego City Council District 9. In the United States House of Representatives, Kensington is in California's 53rd congressional district, represented by Democrat Sara Jacobs,
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Kensington High School is a former high school located in Buffalo, New York. Named for the Kensington neighborhood it is located in, the building is located at 319 Suffolk Street in Buffalo. It currently serves as home to the Frederick Law Olmsted School at Kensington.
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Kensington is a neighborhood of Buffalo, New York, located in the northeastern part of the city. It is sometimes referred to as Kensington-Bailey, due to the intersection at Kensington and Bailey Avenues, the two major commercial streets in the neighborhood.
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Public School No. 63, also known as Campus North School, is a historic school building located in the Kensington-Bailey neighborhood of Buffalo, Erie County, New York. The original section was built in 1917, and is two stories above a ground floor, giving the appearance of a three-story red brick building with Classical Revival detailing. The original "H"-shaped plan consisted of classrooms located in the wings, with gymnasium, swimming pool and auditorium located centrally. Northeast and northwest corner additions were built in 1925. The building is an example of a typical standardized public school plan developed by city architect Howard L. Beck. The school has been redeveloped as an apartment building known as The Lofts at University Heights.
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- Kraus, Neil (2000). Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934-1997. SUNY Press. p. 180. ISBN 9780791447437.
By the late 1970s, living conditions at many of the predominantly African American apartments, especially Ellicott Mall, Douglass Towers, Commodore Perry, and Kensington Heights, had become increasingly bad, which was one of the ...
- Kraus, Neil (2000). Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934-1997. SUNY Press. p. 180. ISBN 9780791447437.
- Jill Babinski, Ernest Sternberg (2005). The Plaza at Kensington Heights: An Opportunity for Large-scale Retail Development in East Buffalo. Buffalo, New York: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Graduate Workshop, University at Buffalo. p. 85.