Building: 310 Beverley Road

310 Beverly Road is an 88-unit cooperative building in the heart of Kensington, Brooklyn. This truly pet-friendly building is one of Kensington’s most coveted co-ops for its well maintained common areas and friendly staff. 310 boasts two laundry rooms, elevators, a live-in super, indoor parking and a full-time porter. Just two short blocks from the F/G trains at Church Avenue, two blocks from BM 1,2,3,4 express bus service, and 30 minutes to lower Manhattan, this well-maintained offering is highly sought after for its brilliant location.

310 Beverley Road has a staff of friendly and handy super & porters. Location cannot be beat; less than 2 blocks from Church Ave subway stations with 2 train lines, mins to shops and a short drive to Ocean Parkway to go anywhere from Coney Island to the City with ease.

Kensington is a neighborhood in the center of the New York City borough of Brooklyn in the zip code 11218. It is the area 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 it are Ditmas Park and Prospect Park South to the east (both of which are parts of Flatbush), Windsor Terrace to the north, Borough Park to the west, and Midwood to the south.

Kensington is a predominantly residential area that consists of housing types that run the gamut from brick rowhouses to detached one-family Victorians to apartment buildings. Pre-war brick apartment buildings dominate the Ocean Parkway and Coney Island Avenue frontage, including many that operate as co-ops. The main commercial streets are Coney Island Avenue, Church Avenue, Ditmas Avenue and McDonald Avenue. Ocean Parkway bisects the neighborhood east-west. Kensington is served by the NYPD’s 66th Precinct. Kensington is a very diverse neighborhood, containing African-American, Ukrainian, South Asian (Bangladeshi and Pakistani), Chinese, Orthodox Jewish, Hasidic, Irish, Polish, Italian, Albanian, Russian, Latino, Mexican, Australian and Caribbean communities. More than 300 immigrants from Darfur have also settled in Kensington as of 2010.

Description provided by Jason Nadeau and D. Patrick Gobin