Albee Square

Coordinates: 40°41′28″N 73°59′07″W / 40.691°N 73.9854°W / 40.691; -73.9854 Albee Square is a public plaza in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City.^[1] The plaza is located at the intersection of Fulton Street, DeKalb Avenue, and Albee Square West.^[2] It is named after Edward Franklin Albee II who was the owner of several area theaters during the 1800s. Albee Square was a theater until 1977 when it was replaced by the Albee Square Mall,^[3] which was subsequently demolished for new development in 2004.^[4]

Albee Square West is also the name of a street that originates at Albee Square. It carries northbound traffic for one block from Fulton Street at its southern end to Willoughby Street at its northern end. At its northern end, Albee Square West becomes Gold Street, a one-way southbound street that continues north for two blocks to Myrtle Avenue. Both the mixed-use City Point development and the proposed One Willoughby Square development are located on Albee Square West.^[2]

The Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a 6 ft (1.8 m) bronze statue, set on a 1 ft (0.30 m) base, of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, will be installed at Albee Square. It will be installed permanently outside 445 Albee Square on March 15, 2021.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References[]

^ "Best Earth Day 2018 activities in New York". Retrieved 11 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b Google (November 16, 2018). "Albee Square W" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
^ "ALBEE SQUARE, Brooklyn - Forgotten New York". forgotten-ny.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
^ Dean, Allison Lirish. "Albee Square: When the Mall's No Longer Home". Retrieved 11 May 2018.
^ Kimberly Dole. "Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be unveiled during Women's History Month in March," WBBM News Radio.
^ Kevin Duggan. "RBG statue planned for Downtown’s City Point in 2021," Brooklyn Paper.
^ "New mural honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg going up in East Village," ABC 7, November 11, 2020.

v t Streets of Brooklyn
North–south roads	3rd Av 4th Av 8th Av 13th Av Abolitionist Pl/Duffield St Bay Pkwy Bedford Av Cadman Plz Conduit Blvd Coney Island Av Flatbush Av Fort Hamilton Pkwy Fountain Av Kings Hwy Manhattan Av McDonald Av McGuinness Blvd Nostrand Av Ocean Av Ocean Pkwy Pennsylvania Av Rockaway Pkwy Stillwell Av Utica Av Vanderbilt Av
East–west roads	Atlantic Av Broadway Cropsey Av DeKalb Av Eastern Pkwy Flatlands Av Flushing Av Fulton St Grand St Greenpoint Av Jamaica Av Liberty Av Linden Blvd Metropolitan Av Myrtle Av Prospect Av Avenue U
Eponymous streets in New York City Numbered streets Numbered avenues Lettered avenues Other thoroughfares

Protected areas of New York City

Federal

National Historic Sites	Lower East Side Tenement Museum Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
National monuments and memorials	African Burial Ground Castle Clinton Federal Hall General Grant Governors Island Hamilton Grange Statue of Liberty Stonewall
Other Protected Areas	Gateway National Recreation Area Floyd Bennett Field Fort Tilden Fort Wadsworth Great Kills Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Jacob Riis Miller Field

State

State Parks	Bayswater Point Clay Pit Ponds East River Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Gantry Plaza Riverbank Roberto Clemente Shirley Chisholm

City parks and preserves

Manhattan	79th Street Boat Basin Abingdon Square Albert Capsouto Asphalt Green Asser Levy Battery Bella Abzug (Hudson) Bennett British Garden at Hanover Square Bowling Green Bryant Captain Patrick J. Brown Walk Carl Schurz Central Diana Ross Playground Great Lawn Rec Center Heckscher Playground North Meadow Rec Center Chelsea City Hall Coleman Playground Collect Columbus Corlears Hook Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza Damrosch Dante DeSalvio Playground DeWitt Clinton Drumgoole Plaza Duane East River Greenway East River Esplanade East River Pier 42 Stuyvesant Cove Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza Father Demo Square Foley Square Fort Tryon Fort Washington Gorman Governors Island Gramercy Greenacre Hamilton Fish Hanover Square Hell's Kitchen Herald Square High Line Highbridge Fort George Seating Area Hudson River Ilka Tanya Payán Imagination Playground Inwood Hill Isham J. Hood Wright Jackie Robinson Jackson Square John Jay Liberty Little Island Louis Cuvillier Madison Square Manhattan Waterfront Greenway Marcus Garvey McKenna Square Millennium Mill Rock Mitchell Square Morningside Muscota Marsh Open Road Paley Peretz Square Plaza Lafayette Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden Ralph Bunche Randalls Island Riverside Robert Moses Playground Rucker Sakura Sara Delano Roosevelt Septuagesimo Uno Seward Sheridan Square Sherman Square Spring Street St. John's St. Nicholas Straus Stuyvesant Square Teardrop Theodore Roosevelt Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Tompkins Square Union Square Verdi Square Vesuvio Playground Wards Island Washington Market Washington Square West Side Community Garden William A. Harris Garden Zuccotti
The Bronx	Baretto Point Bridge Bronx Bronx Skate Park Claremont Concrete Plant Crotona Estella Diggs Ferry Point Givans Creek Woods Hart Island Henry Hudson Hunts Point Joseph Rodman Drake Joyce Kilmer Magenta Playground Macombs Dam Mill Pond Mosholu Parkway Mullaly North and South Brother Islands Pelham Bay Hunter Island Orchard Beach Rodman's Neck Pelham Parkway Playground 52 Printer's Pugsley Creek Seton Falls Soundview St. James St. Mary's Starlight Taqwa Community Farm Tremont University Woods Van Cortlandt Vinmont Veteran Williamsbridge Oval
Brooklyn	Alben Square Anthony Catanzaro Square Ascenzi Square Betsy Head Bensonhurst Bocchino-Dente Memorial Plaza Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Heights Promenade Brooklyn–Queens Greenway Brower Bushwick Cadman Plaza Calvert Vaux Chief Charles A. Joshua Plaza Columbus Commodore Barry Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk Coney Island Creek Coney Island Cyclone Cooper Domino Dyker Beach Eastern Parkway Fort Greene Fulton Golconda Skate Park Highland JJ Byrne Jamaica Bay John J. Carty John Paul Jones Kaiser Leif Ericson Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino Macri Triangle Maria Hernandez Marine McCarren McGolrick Mt. Prospect Nellie Bly Ocean Parkway Owl's Head Prospect Red Hook Russell D. Ramsey Triangle Saratoga Seth Low Shore Spring Creek Steeplechase Sunset Walt Whitman WNYC Transmitter Zion Triangle
Queens	Alley Pond Astoria Baisley Pond Bowne Brooklyn–Queens Greenway Captain Tilly Catholic War Veterans Triangle Chris Postiglione Triangle College Point Fields Crocheron Cunningham Doughboy Douglaston Elmhurst Far Rockaway Skate Park Feehan Triangle Flushing Fields Flushing Meadows-Corona Foch Sitting Area Forest Fort Tilden Fort Totten Highland Hillcrest Veterans Square Jamaica Bay Judge Moses Weinstein Playground Juniper Valley Kissena Kohlreiter Square Kopytko Triangle Libra Triangle Linden LoCicero Triangle Lynch Triangle Mafera O'Donohue One Room Schoolhouse Park of the Americas Playground Seventy Five Proctor-Hopson Circle Queens County Farm Museum Queensbridge Rachel Carson Remsen Cemetery Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk Rockaway Community Roy Wilkins Rufus King Socrates Sculpture Spring Creek Springfield Travers Travis Triangle Triangle 54 Tribute Turtle Playground Udalls Cove Underbridge Dog Run Vleigh Playground Walter J. Wetzel Triangle
Staten Island	Amundsen Circle Austen House Bloomingdale Blue Heron Buono Beach Clove Lakes Conference House Fort Hill Fort Wadsworth South Beach–FDR Boardwalk Freshkills Great Kills Graniteville Quarry Hoffman Island Ingram Woods Isle of Meadows Lemon Creek Long Pond Midland Beach Miller Field Mount Loretto Unique Area New Dorp Beach Prall's Island Sailors' Snug Harbor Staten Island Botanical Garden New York Chinese Scholar's Garden Shooters Island Silver Lake Staten Island Greenbelt Swinburne Island Tappen Tompkins Circle William T. Davis Wildlife Refuge Willowbrook Wolfe's Pond

Other

Nature centers	Alley Pond Belvedere Castle Blue Heron Crotona Forest Fort Greene Fort Totten Inwood Hill Orchard Beach Prospect Salt Marsh Van Cortlandt
Zoos	Bronx Central Park Prospect Park Queens Staten Island
Botanical gardens	Brooklyn Botanic Conservatory New York Botanical Queens Botanical Staten Island Botanical New York Chinese Scholar's Wave Hill
Roosevelt Island	Lighthouse Southpoint
Other lists	World War I-related parks Vietnam War-related parks Hispanic and Latino-related parks

Category
Department of Parks and Recreation
New York State
Commons

This article relating to roads and streets in New York City is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

This article about a location in Brooklyn, New York is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .