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Bensonhurst, New York City — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Bensonhurst is a residential Brooklyn neighborhood between 86th Street and 14th Avenue, keeping the New Utrecht Reformed Church.
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Where to stay in Bensonhurst
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
Houses, not hotels, set the tone in Bensonhurst. The neighborhood runs between 86th Street and 14th Avenue in the southwestern part of Brooklyn, so a stay here is a stay among houses and local streets rather than anything arranged for visitors. The edges matter more than the middle. Bath Beach lies southwest, Gravesend southeast, and Dyker Heights and Borough Park northwest and northeast, which means a bed in Bensonhurst puts several Brooklyn neighborhoods inside one walk.
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Along 86th Street
86th Street runs the southwestern boundary of Bensonhurst, with Bath Beach immediately beyond it.Find hotels in Along 86th StreetVisits taking in the New Utrecht Reformed ChurchThe New Utrecht Reformed Church end
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About Bensonhurst
What are the main landmarks in Bensonhurst?
One landmark carries the neighborhood. The New Utrecht Reformed Church is the listed landmark inside Bensonhurst, and its name belongs to an older layer of Brooklyn than the numbered avenues and streets that bound the neighborhood. The boundaries do the rest. 14th Avenue, 60th Street, Avenue P, 22nd Avenue and 86th Street draw the outline, and the neighbors beyond them, Dyker Heights, Borough Park, Mapleton, Bath Beach and Gravesend, supply what Bensonhurst itself does not.
What is the history of Bensonhurst?
The name came before the grid. New Utrecht Reformed Church carries a name that belonged to this corner of Brooklyn before the numbered avenues arrived, and Bensonhurst as a neighborhood took shape around the streets that eventually bounded it. Housing did the rest.
The district settled into the residential pattern it still keeps, hemmed by 14th Avenue and 60th Street on one side and by 86th Street on the other, with Dyker Heights, Borough Park and Gravesend taking the ground beyond.
Where is Bensonhurst?
Bensonhurst fills a patch of southwestern Brooklyn between 60th Street and Avenue P, with Bath Beach to the southwest and Gravesend to the southeast.
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What is the best area to stay in Bensonhurst?
Along 86th Street: Stays that want the 86th Street side of Bensonhurst. The New Utrecht Reformed Church end: Visits taking in the New Utrecht Reformed Church.
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Updated October 2026