Bensonhurst is a large, multiethnic neighborhood in the southwestern part of the
New York City borough of
Brooklyn, in the United States. It is surrounded by
Dyker Heights,
Borough Park,
Flatbush,
Midwood,
Gravesend, and
Bath Beach to the northwest, north, northeast, east, southeast, and southwest, respectively. It was well known as a
Little Italy of Brooklyn due to its once large
Italian-American population. Bensonhurst is also home to Brooklyn's second
Chinatown.