Farragut (Brooklyn)

Farragut is a neighborhood in the central-eastern area of ​​the Brooklyn borough of New York. The area is part of Brooklyn Community Board 17. Farragut is approximately delimited by Cortelyou Avenue and Holy Cross Cemetery to the north, Kings Highway to the east, Brooklyn Avenue to the west, and the Long Island Railroad to the south.

The area was mostly inhabited by Jews and Italians before 1950. In the 1980s, African Americans moved into the area and became majority in the 1990s with some Western Indians. the 84th police district of the New York Police Department.

The neighborhood was named in honor of War Admiral David Farragut.

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