   thumb|right|250px|condos in midwood midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the new york city borough of brooklyn. it is within community district 14, and is patrolled by the 61st, 66th, and 70th precincts of the new york city police department. it is bounded on the north by the bay ridge branch tracks just above avenue i and brooklyn college campus of the city university of new york, and on the south by avenue p and kings highway. the eastern border is nostrand avenue, flatbush avenue, or coney island avenue, mcdonald avenue or ocean parkway to the west is the other boundary.leimbach, dulcie. "if you're thinking of living in/midwood; bustling area with a touch of country", the new york times, june 29, 2003. accessed october 30, 2007. ==history==  thumb|250px|residential building cluster in midwood the name, midwood, derives from the dutch word, midwout (middle woods), the name the settlers of new netherland called the area of dense woodland midway between the towns of boswyck (bushwick) and breuckelen (brooklyn). jan snedeker, jan stryker, and tomys swartwout solicited from director-general stuyvesant the right of settling together on a level area of wilderness (vlacke bosch, the flat bush), adjacent to the outlying farms at breukelen and nieuw amersfoort. through swartwout's suggestion, the settlement was named the village of midwout or midwolde. in april 1655, stuyvesant and the council of new netherland appointed swartwout a schepen (magistrate), to serve with snedeker and adriaen hegeman as the court of midwout.http://memory.loc.gov/master/gdc/scdser01/200401/books_on_film_project/loc06/nov13batchofpdfs/20060523002sw.pdf later, it became part of old flatbush, situated between the towns of gravesend and flatlands.brooklyn neighborhoods.. present & past, accessed december 21, 2006 settlement was begun by the dutch in 1652; they later gave way to the english, who conquered it in 1664, but the area remained rural and undeveloped for the most part until its annexation to the city of brooklyn in the 1890s. it became more developed in the 1920s when large middle class housing tracts and apartment buildings were built.http://hdc.org/neighborhoodatriskmidwoodfiske.htm many midwood residen
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