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1. books.google.com › books › aboutBrooklyn by Name : How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks ...

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   How the places in Brooklyn got their names--complete with vivid photographs and maps From Bedford-Stuyvesant to Williamsburg, Brooklyn's historic names are emblems of American culture and...

2. archive.org › details › brooklynbynameho0000benaBrooklyn by name : how the neighborhoods, streets, parks ...

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   Jul 11, 2020 · Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2020-07-11 17:02:04 Associated-names Weiss, Jennifer Boxid IA1873610

3. www.nypl.org › digitized-brooklyn-city-directoriesDigitized Brooklyn City Directories | The New York Public Library

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   Brooklyn Public Library has digitized Brooklyn city and business directories, and telephone books for the period 1856-1967. This collection is accessible via Internet Archive and allows for full-text searching within each volume.

4. forgotten-ny.com › 2020 › 06Brooklyn A to Z - Forgotten New York

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   Jun 14, 2020 · June 14, 2020. I wanted to toss a page together quick and my thoughts turned to southern Brooklyn’s simple street naming scheme.

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6. forgotten-ny.com › 2014 › 03THE NAMES OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF BROOKLYN - Forgotten New York

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   • GREENPOINT. Greenpoint was once known as the “Garden Spot of Brooklyn,” or “Garden Spot of the World,” a phrase attributed to longtime US Rep. John Rooney, who served for 30 years from 1944-1974.
   • WILLIAMSBURG(H) and EAST WILLIAMSBURG. The town of Williamsburgh was founded in 1802 by ferry operator Richard Woodhull, who purchased 13 acres of Charles Titus’ farm along the East River in 1802, and commissioned close friend Colonel Jonathan Williams to survey and lay out the town’s streets.
   • BUSHWICK. One of Kings County’s original six towns, Bushwick is a vast area located between Broadway, Flushing Avenue, the Queens line (Ridgewood) and the Brooklyn-Queens cemetery belt.
   • HIGHLAND PARK. This neighborhood is located just south of the park it is named for, south of the Jackie Robinson Parkway, north of Highland Boulevard and west of National Cemetery (below).

7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › BrooklynBrooklyn - Wikipedia

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   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 County, one of twelve original counties established under British rule in 1683 in the then Province of New York.

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   Where can I find a book about Brooklyn?

   • "Brooklyn" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 647–649. Federal Writers' Project (1940). "New York City: Brooklyn". New York: a Guide to the Empire State. American Guide Series. New York: Oxford University Press. hdl: 2027/mdp.39015008915889. Berner, Thomas F. The Brooklyn Navy Yard (Arcadia, 1999) online.

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   Does Brooklyn Public Library digitize books?

   • Subjects: Genealogy, New York City History Language: English Brooklyn Public Library has digitized Brooklyn city and business directories, and telephone books for the period 1856-1967. This collection is accessible via Internet Archive and allows for full-text searching within each volume.

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   When did Brooklyn become a city?

   • 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 distinct towns in Kings County, most developed during the Dutch colonial period: Brooklyn, Bushwick, New Utrecht, Gravesend, Flatbush, and Flatlands.

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   Where is Brooklyn in New York City?

   • Brooklyn is a borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the State of New York.

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   Is Brooklyn a borough or a city?

   • Named after the Dutch town of Breukelen in the Netherlands, Brooklyn shares a border with the borough of Queens. It has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan, across the East River, and is connected to Staten Island by way of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

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   Is Brooklyn a twin city?

   • Brooklyn is referred to as the twin city of New York in the 1883 poem, "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, which appears on a plaque inside the Statue of Liberty. The poem calls New York Harbor "the air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame".

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9. www.bklynlibrary.org › cbh › finding-aidGuide to the Brooklyn City and Telephone Directories

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   The Brooklyn city directories had various publishers and list names, addresses, and occupations of residents of Brooklyn. Most include a list of streets, city charter, public services and a map. Advertising appears in 1822.