Wingate is a

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in the north central portion of the

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. The area is bordered by Prospect Lefferts Gardens to the west, Crown Heights to the north and east, and

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to the south. Wingate is bounded by Empire Boulevard to the north, Troy Avenue to the east, Winthrop Street to the south, and New York Avenue to the west. The area is part of Brooklyn Community District 9.Brooklyn Community Boards

. Accessed December 31, 2007. It is sometimes considered part of Crown Heights, East Flatbush, and/or Prospect Lefferts Gardens. The neighborhood was originally named Pigtown because it was the location of several major pig farms that supplied Brooklyn. Pigtown was at the southern periphery of the

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where it bordered the

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Flatbush Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City Borough (New York City), borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park (Brooklyn), Prospect Park to the nort ...

. On modern maps it is bounded on the north by Empire Boulevard (formerly Malbone Street), on the south by Midwood Street, on the east by Albany Avenue and on the west by Nostrand Avenue. Future drag racer Frederick DiNome and his criminal brother

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were born and raised in Pigtown.as was Rudy Giuliani, who spent his first seven years there. The neighborhood was renamed to Wingate in the 2000s by real estate developers enjoying the massive influx of new people to Brooklyn. It is named for the now-defunct George W. Wingate High School, locally called "The Banjo School" because of its shape.

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