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| brooklyn new york history: Brooklyn Thomas J. Campanella, 2020-08-18 A major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today. |
| brooklyn new york history: A History of New Lots, Brooklyn to 1887 Alter F. Landesman, 1977 |
| brooklyn new york history: Brooklyn in the 1920's Eric J. Ierardi, 1998-09 Now home to approximately 2.5 million people, Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs that make up the City of New York. It was during the 1920s that Brooklyn experienced some monumental changes in the early motorized world of cars, trucks, buses, and trains. In this decade, Brooklyn saw the construction of the world's largest promenade, the Coney Island Boardwalk, as well as the construction of most of the homes that still exist in Brooklyn. The 1920s also brought Brooklyn's sewers and paved roads. Slowly but surely, farms and gardens began to vanish in the name of progress. Brooklyn became a refuge for many. It offered the opportunity for peaceful living in a growing urban society. Discover the people and places of Brooklyn in a decade of growth and prosperity, and travel back to the beginnings of a diverse community with a rich ethnic heritage. Join Eric Ierardi in this celebration of a unique American city with a fascinating past. Brooklyn in the 1920s is sure to appeal to both residents and newcomers and will serve as a valuable tool in teaching the history of Brooklyn to future generations. |
| brooklyn new york history: When Brooklyn Was Queer Hugh Ryan, 2019-03-05 The never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day. ***An ALA GLBT Round Table Over the Rainbow 2019 Top Ten Selection*** ***NAMED ONE OF THE BEST LGBTQ BOOKS OF 2019 by Harper's Bazaar*** A romantic, exquisite history of gay culture. —Kirkus Reviews, starred “[A] boisterous, motley new history...entertaining and insightful.” —The New York Times Book Review Hugh Ryan’s When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond. No other book, movie, or exhibition has ever told this sweeping story. Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history—a great forgetting. Ryan is here to unearth that history for the first time. In intimate, evocative, moving prose he discusses in new light the fundamental questions of what history is, who tells it, and how we can only make sense of ourselves through its retelling; and shows how the formation of the Brooklyn we know today is inextricably linked to the stories of the incredible people who created its diverse neighborhoods and cultures. Through them, When Brooklyn Was Queer brings Brooklyn’s queer past to life, and claims its place as a modern classic. |
| brooklyn new york history: History of Kings County Including Brooklyn N. Y. from 1683 to 1883 Henry Reed Stiles, 2014-10-12 This is the authoritative work on the History of Brooklyn from the first discovery and the Colonial Period up until 1884 when this book was published. It is not to be confused at all with another work History of Brooklyn published in three volumes in 1867. The two books are completely different although both are by the same author. Henry Reed Stiles was a physician who wrote a number of highly regarded historical records and genealogical books during the late 18th and early 19th century. As a doctor, he served in various medical positions primarily in New York City. He was interested in genealogical and historical research. In May, 1863 Stiles was one of the founders of the Long Island Historical Society, and he became a director and its first librarian. In 1865, he was an active member of the Faust Club which published limited editions of Wood's History of Long Island, and of Farman's Notes on Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1865 he issued a limited edition of two volumes describing to the condition and experiences of prison ship captives in Wallabout Bay, under the title of The Wallabout Prisonship Series, and also edited The Genealogy of the Stranahan and Josslyn Families. He helped to organize the American Anthropological Society in 1869, and was one of the seven founders of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, serving as its president from 1869 until 1873. After his full retirement in 1901, he devoted all his time to completing and preparing for publication of The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut. Stiles was described upon his death as having made it possible for thousands to trace their ancestry to the founders of our American Government and to honored names in the older governments of the world. Stiles wrote a number of books and also contributed numerous articles to magazines, newspapers, and genealogical publications. |
| brooklyn new york history: History of Kings County Including Brooklyn from 1683 to 1883 Henry Reed Stiles, Sam Sloan, Lucien Brock Proctor, 2014-10-12 This is the authoritative work on the History of Brooklyn from the first discovery and the Colonial Period up until 1884 when this book was published. It is not to be confused at all with another work History of Brooklyn published in three volumes in 1867. The two books are completely different although both are by the same author. Henry Reed Stiles was a physician who wrote a number of highly regarded historical records and genealogical books during the late 18th and early 19th century. As a doctor, he served in various medical positions primarily in New York City. He was interested in genealogical and historical research. In May, 1863 Stiles was one of the founders of the Long Island Historical Society, and he became a director and its first librarian. In 1865, he was an active member of the Faust Club which published limited editions of Wood's History of Long Island, and of Farman's Notes on Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1865 he issued a limited edition of two volumes describing to the condition and experiences of prison ship captives in Wallabout Bay, under the title of The Wallabout Prisonship Series, and also edited The Genealogy of the Stranahan and Josslyn Families. He helped to organize the American Anthropological Society in 1869, and was one of the seven founders of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, serving as its president from 1869 until 1873. After his full retirement in 1901, he devoted all his time to completing and preparing for publication of The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut. Stiles was described upon his death as having made it possible for thousands to trace their ancestry to the founders of our American Government and to honored names in the older governments of the world. Stiles wrote a number of books and also contributed numerous articles to magazines, newspapers, and genealogical publications. |
| brooklyn new york history: A History of the City of Brooklyn Henry Reed Stiles, 1869 |
| brooklyn new york history: Brooklyn by Name Leonard Benardo, Jennifer Weiss, 2006-07 From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and history. These pages take readers on a stroll through the streets and places of this thriving metropolis to reveal the borough's textured past. Over 500 of Brooklyn's most prominent place names are organized alphabetically by region. Photos & maps. |
| brooklyn new york history: The Eastern District of Brooklyn Eugene L. Armbruster, 1912 |
| brooklyn new york history: A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County Stephen M. Ostrander, 2023-11-16 A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County is a comprehensive account of the New York City's most populous borough from the time of the discovery of America until the late 19th century. Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen, Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city, and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution, until 1898, when, after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s, according to the new Municipal Charter of Greater New York, Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities, boroughs, and counties to form the modern City of New York. The borough continued, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Volume 1: The Region of Brooklyn at the Time of the Discovery Discovery and First Settlements The Indians and the Early Settlers The Beginnings of Breuckelen 1643-1647 Domestic and Social Life under the Dutch 1647-1664 Kings County after the English Conquest 1665-1700 Brooklyn before the Revolution 1701-1775 Kings County during the Revolution 1775-1783 Volume 2: Brooklyn after the Revolution 1784–1810 Brooklyn Village 1811-1833 The City of Brooklyn 1834-1860 The Period of the Civil War 1861-1865 Brooklyn after the War 1866-1876 The Modern City 1877-1893 |
| brooklyn new york history: A History of the City of Brooklyn, Vol. 1 of 2 Henry R. Stiles, 2016-06-21 Excerpt from A History of the City of Brooklyn, Vol. 1 of 2: Including the Old Town and Village of Brooklyn, the Town of Bushwick, and the Village and City of Williamsburgh In the year 1824, Gabriel Furman, a native of the town, published a little volume which he modestly entitled Notes on the History of Brooklyn, and which, for that day, possessed great merit as a local history. After him, in the form of occasional contributions to magazines and newspapers, came the numerous productions of that worthy citizen, Gen. Jeremiah Johnson, himself a connecting link between Brooklyn's Past and Present. Benjamin Thompson, the historian of Long Island, in 1843, and the Rev. Nathaniel S. Prime, his successor in the same historic field, in 1845, each gave interesting but necessarily brief resumes of Brooklyn history; while Thos. P. Teale's somewhat scanty Chronicles in Spooner's Directory for 1848, and J. T. Bailey's Historical Sketch, in 1840, close the list of what may properly be called histories of this Town and City. The Town of Bushwick and the City of Williamsburgh have had their histories outlined in a similar manner, by Thompson, Prime and Johnson; and by Mr. C. S. Schroeder, in the Long Island Family Circle, in 1852; the only work, however, which can pretend to the dignity of a volume, being the History of Williamsburgh, published by Mr. Samuel Reynolds, in 1852, as an adjunct to the Williamsburgh Directory of that year. These were the pioneer historians of Brooklyn history, to whose efforts all honor is due. The present history had its inception, in the Fall of 1859, in a casual suggestion of my friend Mr. James S. Loring, of this city. From that time to the present, it has been prosecuted with persistency of purpose, although with frequent interruptions, and always amid circumstances least favorable to literary composition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
| brooklyn new york history: The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn Suleiman Osman, 2011-03-09 Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom that New York City's renaissance started in the 1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as a grassroots movement led by young and idealistic white college graduates searching for authenticity and life outside the burgeoning suburbs. Where postwar city leaders championed slum clearance and modern architecture, brownstoners (as they called themselves) fought for a new romantic urban ideal that celebrated historic buildings, industrial lofts and traditional ethnic neighborhoods as a refuge from an increasingly technocratic society. Osman examines the emergence of a slow-growth progressive coalition as brownstoners joined with poorer residents to battle city planners and local machine politicians. But as brownstoners migrated into poorer areas, race and class tensions emerged, and by the 1980s, as newspapers parodied yuppies and anti-gentrification activists marched through increasingly expensive neighborhoods, brownstoners debated whether their search for authenticity had been a success or failure. |
| brooklyn new york history: Greater Gotham Mike Wallace, 2017 Volume two of the world famous trilogy on the history of New York |
| brooklyn new york history: The Brooklyn Nine Alan Gratz, 2009 Follows the fortunes of a German immigrant family through nine generations, beginning in 1845, as they experience American life and play baseball. |
| brooklyn new york history: A History of the City of Brooklyn Henry Reed Stiles, Reed Stiles Henry Reed Stiles, 2009-12 The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Original Publisher: Pub. by subscription Publication date: 1870 Subjects: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Bushwick (New York, N.Y.); Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.); Bushwick, N.Y; History / United States / General; History / United States / State |
| brooklyn new york history: Notes Geographical and Historical, Relating to the Town of Brooklyn, in Kings County on Long-Island Gabriel Furman, 1824 |
| brooklyn new york history: Jews of Brooklyn Ilana Abramovitch, Seán Galvin, 2002 Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map. |
| brooklyn new york history: When Brooklyn was the World, 1920-1957 Elliot Willensky, 1986 Around the corner. The next block. Across the At the end of the line. Borough Park. Gowanus. Flatbush. Canarsie. Ridgewood. Greenpoint. Brownsville. Bay Ridge. Bensonhurst. City Line. What was the place called Brooklyn really like back then... when Brooklyn was the world? Elliot Willensky, born in Brooklyn and now official Borough Historian, takes us back to a sweeter time when a trip on the new BMT subway was a delightful adventure, when summer days were a picnic on the sand and evenings were Nathan's hotdogs at Coney Island and a whirl of lights, spills, and chills at dazzling Luna Park. Remembering Brooklyn, it's the neighborhoods you think of first -- or maybe it's your own block, the one you were raised on. In those days, the street was a more animated, more colorful place. Jacks and jump rope, hit-the-stick, double-dutch and skelly or potsy (hopscotch to you) were played everywhere. The street was a natural amphitheater, and the stoop was the perfect place for grown-ups to sit and watch and visit with neighbors. Stores-on-wheels selling fruit, baked goods, and the old standby, seltzer, rolled right down the block, and the Fuller Brush man and Electrolux vacuum-cleaner salesmen worked door to door, saving housewives countless shopping trips. For many, a big night out was dinner at a Chinese restaurant, where 99 percent of the patrons were non-Chinese, and you could get mysterious-sounding dishes like moo goo gai pan and subgum chow mein -- One from column A, two from column B. If you could afford to go somewhere really classy, the Marine Roof of the Bossert Hotel was one of the hottest nightspots. A hot date on Saturday night featured big bands at the clubs on TheStrip (Flatbush Avenue below Prospect Park) -- the Patio, the Parakeet Club, the Circus Lounge -- or gala stage shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music or the enormous Paramount Theatre. Still, for family entertainment you couldn't beat a day at the beach and a night on Surf Avenue, taking in the sideshows and the penny arcades. For Brooklyn, the years between 1920 and 1957 were a special time. It was in 1920 that the subway system reached to Brooklyn's outer edge -- linking the entire borough with Manhattan and making it an ideal spot for millions of new families to build their homes. The end of the era came in 1957 -- the last year that Brooklyn's beloved Dodgers played at Ebbets Field before moving to sunny California. For many loyal fans the fate of Dem Bums represents the fate of Brooklyn. With a brilliant, entertaining text and hundreds of exciting, nostalgic photographs (many never before published), When Brooklyn Was the World recovers the history of this lively city, as remembered by the millions of people who knew Brooklyn in its golden era. |
| brooklyn new york history: The Civil, Political, Professional and Ecclesiastical History, and Commercial and Industrial Record of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, N. Y. from 1683 to 1884 Henry Reed Stiles, 1884 |
| brooklyn new york history: The Brooklyn Bridge Richard Haw, 2005 Bringing together more than sixty images of the bridge that, over the years, have graced postcards, magazine covers, and book jackets and appeared in advertisements, cartoons, films, and photographs, Haw traces the diverse and sometimes jarring ways in which this majestic structure has been received, adopted, and interpreted as an American idea. Haw's account is not a history of how the bridge was made, but rather of what people have made of the Brooklyn Bridge - in film, music, literature, art, and politics - from its opening ceremonies to the blackout of 2003.--BOOK JACKET. |
| brooklyn new york history: Brooklyn's Promised Land Judith Wellman, 2017-02 In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on Hunterfly Road. This book reconstructs the social history and national significance of this place. |
| brooklyn new york history: Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A Forgotten History Miriam Sicherman, 2019 Unbeknownst to most of the city's inhabitants, a rural community of garbage workers once existed on a now-vanished island in New York City. Barren Island was a swampy speck in Jamaica Bay where a motley group of new immigrants and African Americans quietly processed mountains of garbage and dead animals starting in the 1850s. They turned the waste into useful industrial products until their eviction by Robert Moses in 1936, all in the name of progress. Barren Islanders built businesses, fought fires, demanded a public school and worshipped at churches as they created a quintessentially American community from scratch. Author Miriam Sicherman tells the story of a Brooklyn neighborhood lost in the annals of New York City history. |
| brooklyn new york history: Gotham Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace, 1998-11-19 To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898. It is an epic narrative, a story as vast and as varied as the city it chronicles, and it underscores that the history of New York is the story of our nation. Readers will relive the tumultuous early years of New Amsterdam under the Dutch West India Company, Peter Stuyvesant's despotic regime, Indian wars, slave resistance and revolt, the Revolutionary War and the defeat of Washington's army on Brooklyn Heights, the destructive seven years of British occupation, New York as the nation's first capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the infamous draft riots of the Civil War, the great flood of immigrants, the rise of mass entertainment such as vaudeville and Coney Island, the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and the birth of the skyscraper. Here too is a cast of thousands--the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Clement Moore, who saved Greenwich Village from the city's street-grid plan; Herman Melville, who painted disillusioned portraits of city life; and Walt Whitman, who happily celebrated that same life. We meet the rebel Jacob Leisler and the reformer Joanna Bethune; Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his white angels (who revolutionized the sanitation department); millionaires John Jacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, August Belmont, and William Randolph Hearst; and hundreds more who left their mark on this great city. The events and people who crowd these pages guarantee that this is no mere local history. It is in fact a portrait of the heart and soul of America, and a book that will mesmerize everyone interested in the peaks and valleys of American life as found in the greatest city on earth. Gotham is a dazzling read, a fast-paced, brilliant narrative that carries the reader along as it threads hundreds of stories into one great blockbuster of a book. |
| brooklyn new york history: The Brooklyn Heights Promenade Henrik Krogius, 2011-11-18 Featured in films and on television and used as a backdrop to countless photos, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade offers the public a view that is usually reserved for the rich at the top of a tower. From this one-third-mile stretch, locals and tourists take in the Manhattan skyline, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and New York Harbor. But its history is less harmonious. Plans by the powerful Robert Moses to run the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through a resistant neighborhood led to contention and an unforeseen eventual compromise. In this volume, Brooklyn Heights Press editor Henrik Krogius presents this history, along with his articles that document the fate of the Promenade over the years. |
| brooklyn new york history: Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1869-1883: An Illustrated History, with Images in 3D Jeffrey I. Richman, 2021-09-24 Building the Brooklyn Bridge reminds us of the historic importance of this iconic bridge that was once considered the eighth wonder of the world. It opened up development across the East River and made travel between the two independent cities of Brooklyn and New York quicker and more reliable; especially once the bridge railway was fully operational in September 1883, four months after the bridge's opening. Historian Jeffrey Richman describes in engaging detail how the Brooklyn Bridge was built over fourteen years and clearly explains the function of each of its parts, from the anchorages to the massive cables. The story of the construction is also told through 255 remarkable images, many never before published, including 44 images in 3D, specially created for this book. These historic photographs, woodcuts, color lithographs, and engineering drawings take us back in time to when all of America, and much of the world, watched with excitement as a singular bridge of unprecedented size and technology was built over one of the busiest waterways in the world. The book illuminates long-forgotten details and presents the bridge as the engineering marvel that it is-one that still elicits awe and admiration. This is an incredible journey back in time to when all of America-and much of the world-excitedly watched as the Brooklyn Bridge was being built. Reading the book will be a real treat to anyone who has ever stepped onto this beloved icon and been moved by its majesty. A pair of 3D glasses is included with every copy of the book. |
| brooklyn new york history: Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery Jeffrey I. Richman, 1998-01-01 Published for the 160th anniversary of the cemetery, this book includes stories of some of the people buried there, Civil War generals, murder victims, victims of mass tragedies, inventors, artists, the famous, and the infamous.--Page ix. |
| brooklyn new york history: Notes, Geographical and Historical, Relating to the Town of Brooklyn, in Kings County, on Long-Island Gabriel Furman, A J 1810-1881 Spooner, William Gowans, 2023-07-18 Explore the rich history of Brooklyn with this fascinating book of geographical and historical notes. 'Notes Geographical and Historical' offers a unique perspective on the early days of this rapidly growing metropolis, with a focus on the people, places, and events that have shaped its vibrant history. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of New York City! This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| brooklyn new york history: Names of New York Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, 2021-04-13 A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this fascinating journey through the names of New York City’s streets and parks, boroughs and bridges, playgrounds and neighborhoods. Exploring the power of naming to shape experience and our sense of place, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro traces the ways in which native Lenape, Dutch settlers, British invaders, and successive waves of immigrants have left their marks on the city’s map. He excavates the roots of many names, from Brooklyn to Harlem, that have gained iconic meaning worldwide. He interviews the last living speakers of Lenape, visits the harbor’s forgotten islands, lingers on street corners named for ballplayers and saints, and meets linguists who study the estimated eight hundred languages now spoken in New York. As recent arrivals continue to find new ways to make New York’s neighborhoods their own, the names that stick to the city’s streets function not only as portals to explore the past but also as a means to reimagine what is possible now. |
| brooklyn new york history: Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles Fran Leadon, 2018-04-17 “Part lively social history, part architectural survey, here is the story of Broadway—from 17th-century cow path to Great White Way.”—Geoff Wisner, Wall Street Journal From Bowling Green all the way to Marble Hill, Fran Leadon takes us on a mile-by-mile journey up America’s most vibrant and complex thoroughfare, through the history at the heart of Manhattan. Broadway traces the physical and social transformation of an avenue that has been both the “Path of Progress” and a “street of broken dreams,” home to both parades and riots, startling wealth and appalling destitution. Glamorous, complex, and sometimes troubling, the evolution of an oft-flooded dead end to a canyon of steel and glass is the story of American progress. |
| brooklyn new york history: Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood Tarry Hum, 2014-06-13 Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population--from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods. Tarry Hum shows how processes of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park's future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic engagement, entrepreneurialism, and sustainability planning. She shows, too, how residents' responses to urban development policies and projects and the capital represented by local institutions and banks foster community activism. Hum pays close attention to the complex social, political, and spatial dynamics that forge a community and create new models of leadership as well as coalitions. The evolution of Sunset Park so astutely depicted in this book suggests new avenues for studying urban change and community development. |
| brooklyn new york history: A History of New York in 101 Objects Sam Roberts, 2014-09-23 “Delightfully surprising….A portable virtual museum…an entertaining stroll through the history of one of the world’s great cities” (Kirkus Reviews), told through 101 distinctive objects that span the history of New York, almost all reproduced in luscious, full color. Inspired by A History of the World in 100 Objects, Sam Roberts of The New York Times chose fifty objects that embody the narrative of New York for a feature article in the paper. Many more suggestions came from readers, and so Roberts has expanded the list to 101. Here are just a few of what this keepsake volume offers: -The Flushing Remonstrance, a 1657 petition for religious freedom that was a precursor to the First Amendment to the Constitution. -Beads from the African Burial Ground, 1700s. Slavery was legal in New York until 1827, although many free blacks lived in the city. The African Burial Ground closed in 1792 and was only recently rediscovered. -The bagel, early 1900s. The quintessential and undisputed New York food (excepting perhaps the pizza). -The Automat vending machine, 1912. Put a nickel in the slot and get a cup of coffee or a piece of pie. It was the early twentieth century version of fast food. -The “I Love NY” logo designed by Milton Glaser in 1977 for a campaign to increase tourism. Along with Saul Steinberg’s famous New Yorker cover depicting a New Yorker’s view of the world, it was perhaps the most famous and most frequently reproduced graphic symbol of the time. Unique, sometimes whimsical, always important, A History of New York in 101 Objects is a beautiful chronicle of the remarkable history of the Big Apple. “The story [Sam Roberts] is telling is that of New York, and he nails it” (Daily News, New York). |
| brooklyn new york history: A History of the City of Brooklyn Henry Reed Stiles, 1867 |
| brooklyn new york history: Brooklyn's Garden Charles Andrew Ditmas, 1908 Views include: Knickerbocker Field Club, Midwood Club, Cortelyou Club, Erasmus Hall High School, Old Vanderbilt Homestead, Ocean and Newkirk Avenues, Albermarle Road, Ditmas Avenue, Tennis Court, Rugby Road near Church Avenue, Beverly Road, Prospect Park Boat House. |
| brooklyn new york history: The New York Nobody Knows William B. Helmreich, 2015-08-25 As a kid growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father they called Last Stop. They would pick a subway line and ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood there. Decades later, Helmreich teaches university courses about New York, and his love for exploring the city is as strong as ever. Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to walk virtually every block of all five boroughs--an astonishing 6,000 miles. His epic journey lasted four years and took him to every corner of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Helmreich spoke with hundreds of New Yorkers from every part of the globe and from every walk of life, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former mayors Rudolph Giuliani, David Dinkins, and Edward Koch. Their stories and his are the subject of this captivating and highly original book. We meet the Guyanese immigrant who grows beautiful flowers outside his modest Queens residence in order to always remember the homeland he left behind, the Brooklyn-raised grandchild of Italian immigrants who illuminates a window of his brownstone with the family's old neon grocery-store sign, and many, many others. Helmreich draws on firsthand insights to examine essential aspects of urban social life such as ethnicity, gentrification, and the use of space. He finds that to be a New Yorker is to struggle to understand the place and to make a life that is as highly local as it is dynamically cosmopolitan.--Publisher's description. |
| brooklyn new york history: The Brooklyn Navy Yard Thomas F. Berner, 1999-11-01 Not much larger than a few city blocks (219 acres, plus 72 acres of water), the Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of the most historically significant sites in America. It was one of the U.S. Navy's major shipbuilding and repair yards from 1801 to 1966. It produced more than 80 warships and hundreds of smaller vessels. At its height during World War II, it worked around the clock, employing some 70,000 people. The yard built the Monitor, the world's first modern warship; the Maine, whose destruction set off the Spanish-American War; the Arizona, whose sinking launched America into World War II; and the Missouri, on whose deck World War II ended. On June 25, 1966, the flag at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was lowered for the last time and the 165-year-old institution ceased to exist. Sold to the City of New York for $22.4 million, the yard became a site for storage of vehicles, some light industry, and a modest amount of civilian ship repair. |
| brooklyn new york history: A History of the City of Brooklyn Henry R. Stiles, 2020-04-16 Reprint of the original, first published in 1869. |
| brooklyn new york history: Engineering America Richard Haw, 2020 Engineering America narrates how Johann August Röbling, the third child of a provincial German tobacconist, became John A. Roebling, world-renowned American engineer, wealthy manufacturer, and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and other great engineering feats of nineteenth-century America. |
| brooklyn new york history: An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn Francis Morrone, 2001 |
| brooklyn new york history: How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge Henry Stewart, 2019-07-15 Neighborhoods don't just happen. With unprecedented detail, local historian Henry Stewart (True Crime Bay Ridge) reveals how a quiet Dutch farming community in Kings County was transformed into a bustling small city. Along the way he uncovers the forgotten stories of local Native Americans, slaves and artists while exploring long-demolished cemeteries, elevated trains, country clubs and waterfront resorts. How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge is a revelatory portrait of how a Brooklyn community was built, park by park and block by block-the story of Bay Ridge as it's never been told before. Henry Stewart is a journalist. He lives in Bay Ridge, where he has always lived, with his wife. |
| brooklyn new york history: Brooklyn Then & Now Marcia Reiss, 2002 Pairing historical black-and-white images of notable locations with specially commissioned photographs of the same scenes as they are today, Thunder Bay Press's Then and Now series reveals the fascinating developments and cultural changes that took place. Available in standard and compact editions, this best-selling series makes an ideal souvenir or gift for travelers and locals alike. |
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6 days ago · Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, southwestern Long Island, southeastern New York state, coextensive with Kings county. It is separated from Manhattan …
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Jul 24, 2024 · The best things to do in Brooklyn. Our best things to do in Brooklyn list includes wonderful Brooklyn attractions, bars and restaurants in Kings County.
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Things to Do in Brooklyn, New York: See Tripadvisor's 199,844 traveler reviews and photos of Brooklyn tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in June. We have reviews …
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Jul 13, 2022 · Walk across the iconic bridge to explore one of New York City's most famous boroughs. Stroll along an iconic bridge, ride a famous carousel, enjoy a delicious slice of pizza …
Homepage | Visit Brooklyn
Brooklyn comes alive on Juneteenth—grounded in a powerful legacy of Black history and shaped by strong, diverse communities, the borough bursts with heart, heritage, and pride. The …
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Apr 3, 2024 · From art under the Brooklyn Bridge to fine dining in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is home to many hidden gems and attractions that make up the full NYC experience! To embark on the …
Brooklyn: Iconic neighborhoods and must-see attractions
Brooklyn is New York’s most populous borough, with a rich history and vibrant cultural scene. Once an independent city, it became part of New York in 1898. Famous for its diverse …
32 Best & Fun Things To Do In Brooklyn (New York) - Busy Tourist
Oct 29, 2024 · From iconic landmarks to hidden gems, Brooklyn offers something for everyone, whether you’re a foodie, history buff, art lover, or outdoor enthusiast. This guide will lead you …
Brooklyn
Jan 14, 2013 · Brooklyn, New York, cradle of tough guys and Nobel laureates, fourth largest city in the United States, proof of the power of marginality, and homeland of America's most …
Brooklyn - Wikipedia
Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings …
Brooklyn | History, Neighborhoods, Map, & Facts | Britannica
6 days ago · Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, southwestern Long Island, southeastern New York state, coextensive with Kings county. It is separated from Manhattan …
21 Best Things to Do in Brooklyn, NYC - Time Out
Jul 24, 2024 · The best things to do in Brooklyn. Our best things to do in Brooklyn list includes wonderful Brooklyn attractions, bars and restaurants in Kings County.
Things to Do in Brooklyn
Things to Do in Brooklyn, New York: See Tripadvisor's 199,844 traveler reviews and photos of Brooklyn tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in June. We have reviews …
21 Top Things to Do in Brooklyn - U.S. News Travel
Jul 13, 2022 · Walk across the iconic bridge to explore one of New York City's most famous boroughs. Stroll along an iconic bridge, ride a famous carousel, enjoy a delicious slice of pizza …
Homepage | Visit Brooklyn
Brooklyn comes alive on Juneteenth—grounded in a powerful legacy of Black history and shaped by strong, diverse communities, the borough bursts with heart, heritage, and pride. The …
15 Best Things To Do In Brooklyn, New York - Secret NYC
Apr 3, 2024 · From art under the Brooklyn Bridge to fine dining in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is home to many hidden gems and attractions that make up the full NYC experience! To embark on the …
Brooklyn: Iconic neighborhoods and must-see attractions
Brooklyn is New York’s most populous borough, with a rich history and vibrant cultural scene. Once an independent city, it became part of New York in 1898. Famous for its diverse …
32 Best & Fun Things To Do In Brooklyn (New York) - Busy Tourist
Oct 29, 2024 · From iconic landmarks to hidden gems, Brooklyn offers something for everyone, whether you’re a foodie, history buff, art lover, or outdoor enthusiast. This guide will lead you …
Brooklyn
Jan 14, 2013 · Brooklyn, New York, cradle of tough guys and Nobel laureates, fourth largest city in the United States, proof of the power of marginality, and homeland of America's most …
