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Red Hook is part of the area known as South Brooklyn.
This name is derived from the original City of Brooklyn which ended at Atlantic Street, now Atlantic Avenue.
In the 1950s anything south of Atlantic Avenue was considered South Brooklyn, thus the names " Red Hook " and " South Brooklyn " were applied also to today's Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Columbia Heights and Gowanus neighborhoods.
Portions of Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill were granted landmark status in the 1970s and carved out of Red Hook which is a peninsula between Buttermilk Channel, Gowanus Bay and Gowanus Canal at the southern edge of Downtown Brooklyn.
Red Hook is the only part of New York City that has a full frontal view of the Statue of Liberty, which was oriented to face France, the country which donated the statue to the United States following the centennial of the United States.

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