How Brooklyn Neighborhoods Got Their Names

How Brooklyn's neighborhoods got their names

the swath of Brooklyn stretching from Red Hook to Atlantic Avenue, and from the waterfront to Prospect Park, was known as “South Brooklyn” — a ...

How Brooklyn Neighborhoods Got Their Names | Mental Floss

Gowanus. /. Named after the canal, which itself was named after Gouwane, a chief of the Lenape (also known as Canarsee) tribe of Native ...

Borough Neighborhoods of Brooklyn, and How They Got Their Names

I've done these for about a dozen cities so far and the preference is pretty even between alphabetical and sequential.

How New York City's most famous neighborhoods got their names

The phrase was originally meant to apply to one triangular-shaped tax block (whose neighborhood has since been designated a historic district), ...

How Brooklyn Neighborhhods Got Their Names

Dutch settlers landed in this area and dubbed it “Yellow Hook” for its yellow clay soil along the water. In 1853, a yellow fever epidemic broke ...

How 10 Brooklyn neighborhoods got their names | amNewYork

How 10 Brooklyn neighborhoods got their names · In the 1850s, a group of merchants in the neighborhood of Yellow Hook in southern · In the 19th ...

How come Brooklyn has so many neighborhood names that begin ...

NYC was originally called Nieuw Amsterdam. Harlem was named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. And Brooklyn?

Brooklyn By Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges ...

The arrival of the Dutch West India Company in 1620 brought the first wave of European names, from Boswijck (“town in the woods,” later Bushwick) to Bedford- ...

Brooklyn By Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges ...

Brooklyn's identity has developed out of the shared associations of its landmark names. Coney Island, Prospect Park, Fulton Street, and Ebbets Field are widely ...

How Did Brooklyn Neighborhoods Get Their Names?

How Did Brooklyn Neighborhoods Get Their Names? ... Brooklyn's modern history began as six small Dutch towns on the southern tip of Long Island. From these ...

How 10 Brooklyn neighborhoods got their names - amNewYork

How 10 Brooklyn neighborhoods got their names · In the 1850s, a group of merchants in the neighborhood of Yellow Hook in southern · In the 19th ...

Daily Link Fix: How Brooklyn Neighborhoods Got Their Names - 6sqft

You may know where Brooklyn's various neighborhoods are on a map, but do you know how they got their names? [Mental Floss] A look back at how the Guardian ...

How neighborhoods got their names - Brooklyn Public Library

Book - 1962. Alphabetical list transcribed from an article in the October 30, 1962 New York world-telegram. The list supplies brief descriptions of Brooklyn ...

Brooklyn's Neighborhood Names | www.splicetoday.com

Brooklyn, the borough, was once a city on its own until it narrowly voted to consolidate with New York City in 1898. The city evolved out of six ...

Here's How Each Brooklyn Neighborhood Got Its Name | Viewing NYC

A few years ago, our friends over at Mental Floss published an interesting article about the origins of the names of each Brooklyn ...

Brooklyn Neighborhoods - Patrick Lilly Team

Bedford- Stuyvestant · History. The neighborhood's name is a combination of the names of the Village of Bedford and Stuyvesant Heights neighborhoods. · Points of ...

Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges ...

Brooklyn's street and placenames run the gamut, representing signers of the Declaration of Independence, baseball greats, philosophers, poets, diplomats, saints ...

Brooklyn By Name How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges ...

Brooklyn By Name How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names ... First edition with a 1 present in the number line; 8vo.; glossy ...

Real Estate's Busy Season Brings New Names for Brooklyn ...

Some, such as Prospect Lefferts Gardens-based developer Karl Poisson, have chosen to embrace older names. Faced with the tangle of neighborhoods ...

NYC: Brooklyn Neighborhood Names Print - The Lost Borough

The most populous of the five boroughs: known for its fierce individuality, entrepreneurial drive, creative spark, and distinctive accent, Brooklyn is the ...