Location

Neighborhood in south western Brooklyn, lying on a peninsula at the eastern end of Coney Island and bounded to the north by Sheepshead Bay, to the east and south by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the west by Corbin Place. 

Description

Manhattan Beach is a residential neighborhood, known for being one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Brooklyn, with some of the borough's most expensive real estate. Manhattan Beach is also a beach by the same name on the Atlantic Ocean situated on the eastern end of Coney Island.  It was developed in the last quarter of the 19th century as a resort by Austin Corbin, later president of the Long Island Rail Road.