LIVED @ 2288 DEAN STREET, ACROSS FROM THE CATHOLIC HOME FOR WAYWARD GIRLS, ON HOPKINS STREET & DEAN ST. that area was called Bedford-Stuyvesant. This area is now called “Sunset Park,” however everyone in my mother’s family still calls it Bay Ridge. South of Empire Boulevard it bleeds into Flatbush (see below).Prospect Heights, on a hilly area facing Prospect Park to the south, is a parallelogram defined by Flatbush Avenue, Atlantic Avenue, Eastern Parkway and Washington Avenue. Ackerson built Beverley Square East and West between Beverley and Cortelyou Roads from Argyle Road east to East 19th Street. The name “Sunset Park,” which came from the park of the same name, which runs from 41st – 44th street, 5th -7th Avenue, didn’t come into use as a neighborhood name until the late 60s, early 70s.The 11220 post office is “The Bay Ridge Station.” Bay Ridge encompassed all of what is now Sunset Park and Bay Ridge.I grew up in what is now called “Sunset Park” during the ’40s, 50s and early 60s. Lv 4. However, Bergen Beach is a little different since these lands are named for a Norwegian, Hans Hansen Berger, who emigrated here by way of Holland in 1633 and six generations of Bergens followed him in Kings County residency, including newspaper owners and members of the US Congress.
Future Hotel Indigo at 180 Orchard Street tops out after 10 years in development [BoweryBoogie] […]I am surprised that other neighborhoods such as Wingate, Rugby, Remsen Village, Broadway Junction, Paedergat Basin, Manhattan Terrace, and Plumb Beach weren’t included. Over the decades it has benefited from an influx of Scandinavians and Irish, followed by South Americans and Caribbeans and since the 1980s, Cantonese followed by Fuzhou. New housing developments along Vandalia Avenue have been built in recent years, and in 2002 the massive, 153-acre Starrett City housing project changed its name to Spring Creek towers after a scandal involving racial quotas in screening apartment applicants.This neighborhood remembers a town that separated from Flatbush in 1852 and was annexed by the city of Brooklyn in 1886. Accessed by a “bridge” over BedfordGrowing up in the 60’s on Ocean Parkway around Ditmas Ave, we used to say we were from Flatbush. There’s an IKEA there now, so score a surprising victory for the Swedes.Not many people know about Sea Gate, a tiny beachside community located on the western tip of Coney Island. George Washington used it as a vantage point during the Revolutionary War's Battle of Long Island. What about the great candy stores and the store that sold the best Italian Ices in the city on 8th and 42nd. I could go on and on …Such wonderful memories growing up.I grew up on East 9th, between Ave L and M. Between 1945 and 1953 or so. The Burg - A nickname for Williamsburg, a trendy neighborhood in Brooklyn. My parents paid $84 mo. No photos What happened ?? (Notice the capitalization of ‘The’ before ‘Bronx’: it used to be part of the name, now I never see it as such. I hoped this article would help me figure out where that is so I can better dig around in the census.
It is so great to see the ole’ home town.Just happened to be browsing and saw your website.
I would think that the only redeeming feature of this thing is that if you lived in it you would not have to look at it.Hear, hear!
Moved to Ave. P and E 35 street for another few years before leaving NY. Keep up the excellent work (and have a good backup)!Prospect Lefferts Gardens, which is actually the northern tip of Flatbush, has somewhat wider boundaries than what you listed. Played sandlot baseball with Frank Torre. Later, Some of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods simply retained the old town names, though some did not. Someone would get there before the gates opened so we can have the picnic tables for the family. Originally from President St. but living in NC now. I believe that Homecrest’s southern border is the north side of Ave X at some of its points.
It is situated on the Narrows, a strait separating Long Island and Staten Island, and a strategic point for any enemy vessels that would attempt to enter Upper New York Bay and then the island of Manhattan from the south. It’s hard to say exactly where the northern boundary is; there’s not an easily demarcated line about what is in Fort Greene and what’s “downtown.” I’ve decided to let the Flatbush Avenue Extension, built in 1909 from Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street to allow Flatbush Avenue connect to the Manhattan Bridge, as well as Sands Street, the formerly lively strip whose now-vanished saloons and gambling dens catered to sailors and workers from the neighboring Brooklyn Navy Yard, be the neighborhood arbiters on the north.
My search continues.John J. Rooney doesn’t deserve the credit for coining the phrase “Garden Spot of the World”. Developer Joseph Day laid out the street grid, using British-sounding names as Dean Alvord would do in Prospect Park South.Dutch settler Wolpert Gerritsen arrived in 1636 with a land grant in hand from the Dutch West India Company. "The origin of this neighborhood name was under some dispute, but the argument didn't last long. There was also a Cobble Hill Fort at the present location of Trader Joe’s at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street where George Washington is purported to have witnessed with his spyglass the Battle of Brooklyn being played out in the present-day Green-Wood Cemetery in August 1776.This neighborhood between Smith Street, Atlantic and 4th Avenues and Union Street was once a part of Gowanus (see below) but was renamed by real estate concerns in the 1970s after the prominent Dutch landholding family the Boerums. I was once in Breukelen, The Netherlands,after which the fair borough was named.I was also born and lived in Brighton Beach until I was five at 3142 Coney Island Avenue (very easy to remember that address !) WENT TO “BOYS HIGH” UNTIL KOREAN WAR.BORN IN KINGS COUNTY HOSPITAL. Both locales were completed by 1909. Carroll led a failed assault on a British encampment near the Gowanus Canal in 1776 and lost about 300 of his 400 troops. From these inauspicious beginnings sprouted New York's most populous borough, full of unique and distinct neighborhoods. it was atlantc ave, to fourth ave. to the gowanus. East New York eventually became incorporated into regular New York in 1897. Brooklyn's modern history began as six small Dutch towns on the southern tip of Long Island. Thank you.We have an ancestor that we’re having trouble tracking down. Gravesend has expanded beyond its original town square marked by Village Roads North, South and East, and Van Sicklen Street.
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