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Это график и хронология истории в Бруклине , Нью - Йорк . Бруклин является самым густонаселенным из Нью - Йорк районов города , и был решен в 1646 году.

17 век [ править ]

  • 1646 - Деревня «Брекелен» на западной оконечности Лонг-Айленда санкционирована колонизирующей голландской Вест-Индской компанией для их североамериканской колонии Новые Нидерланды . Названный в честь города Брекелен в провинции Утрехт в Нидерландах, «старая страна».
  • 1652 - Дом Вайкоффа, по оценкам, был построен в 1652 году, это одно из первых построек, построенных европейцами на Лонг-Айленде. Лишь небольшой участок сохранился от 1652 года. [1] Он был объявлен Национальным историческим памятником в 1967 году. [1] [2] и принадлежит Нью-Йорку, но управляется некоммерческим агентством.
  • 1658 г. Старое кладбище Грейвсенд - Национальный регистр исторических мест , кладбище (ныне на Грейвсенд-Нек-Роуд и Макдональд-авеню в Грейвсенде ), было основано около 1658 г. и содержит могилы ряда первых патентовладельцев и поселенцев с их семьями. [3]
  • 1664 - голландский ( губернатор ) Стёйвесант предается колонию к Royal Navy «s английский флот под руководством Джеймса, герцога Йоркского . Новые Нидерланды становятся провинцией Нью-Йорк .
  • 1665 - возможно, первое в Бруклине судебное разбирательство по делу об убийстве, Альберт Корнелис Вантенаер был признан виновным в непредумышленном убийстве в результате гибели Барента Янсена Блома в заливе Уоллабаут . [4]
  • 1677 г. Новая реформатская церковь Утрехта основана на базе голландской реформатской церкви и является четвертой старейшей церковью в Бруклине. И церковь, и кладбище занесены в Национальный реестр исторических мест . [5] [6]

18 век [ править ]

Wykoff-Bennet House, построенный c. 1744
Средняя школа Эразмус-Холла на Флэтбуш-авеню в 2008 году.
  • 1700 - Построена реформатская церковь Нового Утрехта . [5] [6]
  • 1744 - Joost Van Nuyse House , оригинальный раздел был построен в 1744 году и расширен между 1793 и 1806. Он был перенесен на нынешнее место в 1925 году является 1+1 / 2- этажный каркасный дом с круто скатной фальш-крышей. [7] и был включен в Национальный реестр исторических мест в 2006 году.
  • 1766 - Предполагается, что усадьба Вайкоффа-Беннета была построена до 1766 года. Во время американской революции в ней размещались гессенские солдаты для британской армии ). В 1976 году он был объявлен национальным историческим памятником . [2] [8]
  • 1776 г. - 22 июня - мэр Дэвид Мэтьюз был арестован во Флэтбуше по приказу Джорджа Вашингтона, связанного с его предполагаемой причастностью к заговору Хики с целью его убийства.
  • 1776 г. - 27 августа - начинается битва за Лонг-Айленд (также известная как «Битва при Бруклине» или «Битва при Бруклинских высотах»), крупнейшее сражение в американской войне за независимость . Британская армия побеждает, начиная кампанию в Нью-Йорке и Нью-Джерси . [9] Британцы создали систему тюремных кораблей, стоящих на якоре в бруклинском заливе Уоллабаут , где погибло больше американских солдат-патриотов и гражданских пленников, чем на всех полях сражений вместе взятых.
  • 1780 - Форт Бруклин, построенный британской армией в районе Бруклинских высот вдоль восточного берега Ист-Ривер , затем оккупировал Нью-Йорк и Манхэттен , недалеко от форта Стерлинг (названный в честь генерала патриота, также называемого « лордом Стирлингом »). Позже снесен под застройку к 1823–1825 гг. [10]
  • 1783 г. - « День эвакуации », 25 ноября, британские войска покидают Нью-Йорк и Манхэттен в соответствии с условиями Парижского договора после семи лет оккупации. Генерал Джордж Вашингтон и его офицеры Континентальной армии берут под свой контроль.
  • 1786 - Средняя школа Эразмус Холла - старейшая государственная средняя школа в городе, основанная как частная школа Эразмус Холл. Позже к нему присоединилась бесплатная академия в 1840-х годах как первая государственная средняя школа , которая позже стала Городским колледжем Нью-Йорка . [11] Деревянное здание школы [12] было открыто в 1787 году. Позднее были добавлены и удалены флигели.
  • 1788 г. - штат Нью-Йорк обсуждает и ратифицирует новую Конституцию, заменяющую предыдущие статьи Конфедерации и Бессрочного союза.
  • 1790 - Небольшая численность населения зафиксирована в деревнях Бруклин и Бруклин-Хайтс на западной оконечности Лонг-Айленда в ходе первой десятилетней переписи населения США 1790 года .
  • 1797 - Население: 1603 человека, зарегистрированные в недавно изданном справочнике The American Gazetteer . [13]

19 век [ править ]

1800-е годы [ править ]

Винт шлюп USS  Enterprise стыковка на верфи, ок 1890 г.
Квартал А, Бруклинская военно-морская верфь
  • 1800 г. - небольшая численность населения зарождающейся деревни на западной оконечности Лонг-Айленда , зафиксированная в переписи населения США 1800 г.
  • 1801 - Бруклинская военно-морская верфь основана и начинает строительство вдоль восточного берега Ист-Ривер новым Министерством военно-морского флота США . В последующие полтора столетия неоднократно расширялся. [14] [15] [16]
  • 1804 - Мартин Калбфляйш (8 февраля 1804 - 12 февраля 1873), фабрикант, мэр города Бруклин с 1861 по 1863, включая время Гражданской войны в США и снова после войны с 1867 по 1871 год. Позже Соединенные Штаты Представитель из Бруклина. [17]
  • 1805-06 - « Квартал А » построен как резиденция командира Бруклинской военно-морской верфи .
  • Джон Уорд Хантер (15 октября 1807 - 16 апреля 1900) родился в Бедфорде (ныне известный как Бедфорд-Стуйвесант ), Бруклин, а в 1875 и 1876 годах был мэром Бруклина .
  • 1809 г. - начинает выходить газета Long Island Star . [18]
  • 1810 - Генри С. Мерфи родился в Бруклине, (1810–1882) мэр Бруклина в 1842 году.

1810-е [ править ]

  • 1816 - Введение в соответствии с законами и Конституцией в штате Нью - Йорк из деревни в Бруклине.
  • 1819 - Форт Каземат, четырехугольник Уайтинга был спроектирован в 1819 году и построен между 1825 и 1836 годами. Это историческое здание, расположенное в Форт Гамильтон в Бруклине . [19] и был внесен в Национальный реестр исторических мест в 1974 году. [20]

1820-е [ править ]

  • 1820 - Огайо  (1820) спущен на воду с Бруклинской военно-морской верфи. Миссии включают пресечение работорговли у побережья Западной Африки.
  • 1823 г. - образована Библиотечная ассоциация учеников. [21] ** После оккупации британской эвакуации Форт Бруклин был снесен между 1823 и 1825 годами для развития.
  • 1827 - Построен рынок на Джеймс-стрит. [22]
  • 1828 - Основана реформатская церковь Нового Утрехта, которая является четвертой старейшей церковью в Бруклине. В 1828 году нынешняя церковь была построена в 1828 году из камней, взятых из первоначальной церкви, построенной в 1700 году.
  • 1829 - Открытие Дома Кони-Айленда. [23]

1830-е [ править ]

Дом Джона Рэнкина на 440 Клинтон-стрит, построенный в 1840 году.
  • 1830 г.
    • Начинается строительство того, что впоследствии станет районом Фултон-Ферри [24]. Сегодня в этом районе находится множество популярных достопримечательностей, и он внесен в Национальный реестр исторических мест . [20]
  • 1833 г.
    • Первое унитарное конгрегационное общество создано по проекту архитектора Минарда Лафевер , что положило начало архитектурному стилю готического возрождения в Бруклине. [25]
    • Основанный военно-морской лицей США (предшественник Военно-морской академии США в Аннаполисе, штат Мэриленд ), командор Мэтью С. Перри сыграл важную роль в его основании. [26]
  • 1834 г.
    • Деревня Бруклин, а теперь и растущий город, стал городом. [27]
    • Построена старая первая реформатская церковь . [28]
    • Джордж Холл избран первым мэром нового города Бруклина и проработал всего один год, 1834 год.
  • 1835 г.
    • Джонатан Троттер избран вторым мэром Бруклина и работал с 1835 по 1836 год.
  • 1837 г.
    • 9-пушечный пароход с бортовым колесом USS  Fulton (Fulton II) спускается на воду с Бруклинской военно-морской верфи и является первым паровым военным кораблем ВМС США, предназначенным для морской службы.
    • Иеремия Джонсон избирается третьим мэром Бруклина с 1837 по 1838 год.
  • 1838 г.
    • Основано кладбище Грин-Вуд . [29]
    • Джеймс Уикс, афроамериканский вольноотпущенник из Вирджинии, покупает землю, которая знаменует начало Уиксвилля , который становится крупнейшим независимым негритянским городом в стране до гражданской войны.
  • 1839 - Сайрус П. Смит избирается мэром Бруклина и занимал эту должность с 1839 по 1841 год.

1840-е [ править ]

Brooklyn Borough Hall
  • 1840 - Дом Джона Рэнкина (Бруклин, Нью-Йорк) - греческое возрождение. [30] [31] [32] Признанный достопримечательностью Нью-Йорка в 1970 году, [30] Национальный реестр исторических мест в 1978 году. [12] [20]
    • Исторический район Форт-Грин , таунхаусы, построенные между 1840 и 1890 годами. Парк был построен на месте укреплений, построенных в 1776 и 1814 годах. [33] Также в районе находится Бруклинская музыкальная академия . [34] Он был внесен в Национальный реестр исторических мест в 1983 году и расширен в 1984 году. [20]
  • 1841 г. - газета Brooklyn Daily Eagle начинает выходить в октябре, продлится до 1955 г., с возрождением в 1962–1963 гг. И после 1996 г. разными владельцами. [35]
    • Департамент военно-морского флота США на Бруклинской военно-морской верфи начинает 10-летний проект строительства своего третьего гранитного сухого дока . Первое использование парового копра в США.
  • 1843 г. - основан Бруклинский институт .
    • Джозеф Спраг избирается мэром Бруклина с 1843 по 1844 год.
  • 1844 г. - Построена методистская церковь на Бридж-стрит.
  • 1845 - Основана Бруклинская женская академия (позднее - Университетский институт Пакера).
    • Томас Дж. Талмэдж избран мэром Бруклина и только что проработал один год в 1845 году.
    • Исторический район Боерум-Хилл (позднее исторический район ) в Боерум-Хилл, Бруклин, начинает строительство. [36] и внесен в Национальный реестр исторических мест.
  • 1846 - Фрэнсис Б. Страйкер избирается мэром Бруклина и занимал свои посты с 1846 по 1848 год.
  • 1847 г.
    • Построена церковь Святой Троицы (позже сливается с церковью Святой Анны).
    • Основана Центральная пресвитерианская церковь (ранее - Бруклинская скиния).
    • State Street Houses , 23 ряда домов , построенных между 1847 и 1874 годами на Стейт-стрит между улицами Смит и Хойт в районе Боерум-Хилл . [37] [38]
  • 1848 г.
    • Основано кладбище Cypress Hills .
    • Циркуляционная библиотека Хокинса начинает свою коммерческую и литературную деятельность. [21]
    • Brooklyn Borough Hall был построен как ратуша по проекту архитекторов Кэлвина Полларда и Гамалиэля Кинга в архитектурном стиле греческого возрождения и построен из мрамора Tuckahoe .
  • 1849 г. - Основано кладбище вечнозеленых растений .
    • Эдвард Копленд избран мэром Бруклина и отбыл только один год в 1849 году.

1850-е годы [ править ]

Филармоническое общество Бруклина
  • 1850 г.
    • Плимутская церковь построена.
    • Основание Бруклинской юридической библиотеки . [21]
    • Район, позже обозначенный как Исторический район Гринпойнт, был застроен между 1850 и 1900 годами [39] и внесен в Национальный реестр исторических мест.
    • Сэмюэл Смит избран мэром Бруклина и только что проработал один год в 1850 году.
  • 1851 г.
    • Конклин Браш избирается мэром Бруклина с 1851 по 1852 год.
  • 1852 - Основание Бруклинского атенеума и читального зала . В 1869 году он объединился с Торговой библиотекой . В 1878 году объединенные библиотеки были переименованы в нынешнюю Бруклинскую публичную библиотеку . [21]
    • At the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a young Naval Surgeon named E. R. Squibb seeks assignment to the Naval Hospital where he perfects manufacture of an anesthetic known as "ether".
    • Construction starts on the South Bushwick Reformed Presbyterian Dutch Church, (a.k.a. the "White Church"), later placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[40][41] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[42]
    • Seth Low (1850–1916), born in Brooklyn and was the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1882 to 1885
  • 1853
    • Основано Бруклинское отделение YMCA (Ассоциация молодых христианских мужчин) , позже часть YMCA Большого Нью-Йорка.
    • Создана Римско-католическая Бруклинская епархия . [43]
    • Эдвард А. Ламберт избирается мэром Бруклина с 1853 по 1854 год.
    • Бруклин, Балтимор , названный в честь города Нью-Йорк, основанного в штате Мэриленд . Позже города и поселки принимают название «Бруклин», или «Бруклинский парк», «Бруклинские высоты», «Бруклинский центр» и «Нью-Бруклин» в Огайо, Миннесоте и т. Д.
  • 1854 г.
    • Открывается университетский институт Пакера.
    • Сформировалась одна из первых организованных команд профессионального бейсбола "Бруклин Эксельсиорс" .
    • Верфь Lawrence & Foulks в работе в районе Вильямсбург в Бруклине.
  • 1855 г.
    • Дополнительные географические районы Бушвик , Гринпойнт и Вильямсбург становятся частью Бруклина. [44]
    • Бейсбольная команда " Brooklyn Atlantics " сформировалась как еще один ранний клуб бейсбола, который недавно был организован .
    • Открывается Бруклинский политехнический институт, который становится всемирно известным математическим, инженерным и научным учреждением. [26]
    • Джордж Холл избирается мэром Бруклина с 1855 по 1856 год.
  • 1857 г.
    • Несколько молодых людей с торговцами, производителями, бизнесменами основали Бруклинскую ассоциацию торговых библиотек города Бруклина , которая позже слилась с другими и стала Бруклинской публичной библиотекой. [21]
    • Дом собраний друзей, построенный Обществом Друзей («Квакеры») , с последующим добавлением школы .
    • Создано Бруклинское филармоническое общество (а позже - Бруклинский филармонический симфонический оркестр).
    • Морской хирург Э. Р. Сквибб основывает свою собственную фармацевтическую компанию за пределами Бруклинской военно-морской верфи , которая поставляет большую часть медикаментов для армии Союза во время гражданской войны .
    • Начинается строительство баптистской церкви Hanson Place, позже названной церковью адвентистов седьмого дня Hanson Place . Церковь была признана достопримечательностью Нью-Йорка в 1970 году и внесена в Национальный реестр исторических мест в 1980 году. [31] [45]
    • Сэмюэл С. Пауэлл избирается мэром Бруклина с 1857 по 1860 год.
  • 1858 г.
    • Построено водохранилище Риджвуд , обеспечивающее дополнительную емкость по воде для системы водоснабжения Бруклина.
    • Построена вторая унитарная церковь .
    • The Brooklyn Navy Yard-built USS Niagara and the British Royal Navy's HMS Agamemnon meet mid-ocean, making the first attempt to lay the first Transatlantic telegraph cable. It soon breaks down.
  • 1859 – St. Francis College established.
    • Larry Corcoran, an especially skilled American pitcher in early Major League Baseball born in Brooklyn. Credited with creating first method of signaling pitches to his catcher.[46]

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1860s[edit]

Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, Knickerbocker Hall, 1864
Солдатская и матросская арка на Гранд-Арми-Плаза
  • 1860 - Население: 266 661 человек. [48]
    • Сберегательный банк графства Кингс, построенный в 1860–1868 годах в стиле Второй французской империи . Теперь ориентир в Вильямсбурге, Бруклин .
  • 1861 г.
    • Открытие Бруклинской музыкальной академии ; представляет свой первый спектакль
    • Мартин Кальбфляйш становится мэром .
    • Бруклин с его промышленными ресурсами и огромным населением играл важную роль в обеспечении войск и техники для Гражданской войны в США с такими полками, как 14-й Бруклинский полк , известный как «Красноногие дьяволы». Они воевали с 1861 по 1864 год и всю войну носили красное.
  • 1862 г.
    • Построен Дом суда. [49]
    • Парк-театр открывается. [50]
    • Начинает работу Кони-Айленд и Бруклинская железная дорога .
    • Национальное кладбище Сайпресс-Хиллз - единственное национальное кладбище США в Нью-Йорке, созданное в честь ветеранов гражданской войны . Здесь также есть могилы солдат, которые участвовали в Войне за независимость США , Испано-американской войне , Корейской войне и войне во Вьетнаме . [51]
    • Continental Iron Works , строитель революционного военного корабля USS  Monitor , построенного на набережной Ист-Ривер .
  • 1863 - Основание Исторического общества Лонг-Айленда (позже известного как Бруклинское историческое общество ).
  • 1864 г.
    • Бруклинская «Санитарная ярмарка», проводимая Санитарной комиссией США для предоставления средств помощи и медикаментов, а также помощи сиротам и вдовам солдатам Гражданской войны , морякам и ветеранам . [52]
    • Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh инкорпорирован.
    • Альфред М. Вуд (19 апреля 1825 - 28 июля 1895), мэр Бруклина с 1864 по 1865 год, был офицером 14-го Бруклинского во время гражданской войны.
  • 1865 - Основание Дома серфинга Тилёва, Кони-Айленд. [53]
    • Исторический район Проспект-Хайтс , построенный между 1865 и примерно 1900 годами в различных архитектурных стилях, популярных в конце 19 века. [54] Он был внесен в Национальный реестр исторических мест в 1983 году. [20]
  • 1866 г. - построена церковь Святого Павла .
    • Сэмюэл Рут избирается мэром Бруклина с 1866 по 1867 год.
  • 1867 г.
    • Площадь Гранд Армии была построена в ознаменование победоносной армии Союза и ее последующей ветеранской организации - Великой армии Республики .
    • Основание Чарльза Пратта и компании .
    • Проспект-парк , парк площадью 585 акров в Бруклине, спроектированный известными архитекторами Фредериком Лоу, Олмстедом и Калвертом Во .
    • Епископальная церковь Святого Павла , построенная в 1867–1884 годах по проекту Ричарда Апджона и Сона [12] в стиле высокой викторианской готики . Он был добавлен в Национальный реестр исторических мест в 1989 году. [20]
  • 1868 - Построен дом собраний квакеров .
  • 1869 г.
    • Основание пожарного управления Бруклина . [55]
    • Канал Гованус построен. [56]
    • Академия Адельфи зафрахтована.

1870-е [ править ]

Ремонт Клинтон-стрит, ок. 1872–1887 гг.
  • 1870 г.
    • Открывается колледж Святого Иоанна . [26]
    • Население города Бруклин по переписи населения США 1870 года : 396 099 человек. [48]
    • Строительство начинается в историческом районе Стуйвесант-Хайтс , в районе Бедфорд-Стайвесант . Здания в основном представляют собой двух- и трехэтажные рядные дома с высокими подвалами, с несколькими многоквартирными домами и институциональными строениями. [57] [58] [59] [60]
  • 1873 г.
    • Сэмюэл С. Пауэлл избирается мэром Бруклина с 1872 по 1873 год.
  • 1874 г.
    • Строительство начинается на Ocean Parkway (Бруклин) и простирается на расстояние около пяти миль (8 км), идя почти с севера на юг от района Prospect Park до Брайтон-Бич.
    • Строительство начинается на Ратуше Флэтбуша , исторической ратуше , спроектированной Джоном И. Кулером в стиле высокой викторианской готики [31] в стиле рускинцев . [61] Это двухэтажное каменное здание на каменном фундаменте с трехэтажной колокольней с крутой шатровой крышей.
  • 1875 г.
    • Сберегательный банк Уильямсбурга построен и спроектирован Джорджем Б. Постом и сегодня является достопримечательностью Нью-Йорка и включен в Национальный реестр исторических мест.
  • 1876 ​​- Пожар в Бруклинском театре
  • Фредерик А. Шредер - мэр Бруклина с 1876 по 1877 год.
  • 1878 г.
    • Линия Брайтон-Бич начинает работу.
    • Открытие Брайтон-Бич Отель.
    • Джеймс Хауэлл избирается мэром Бруклина с 1878 по 1881 год.
  • 1879 г.
    • Открытие ипподрома Брайтон-Бич .
    • Открывается ресторан Gage and Tollner .

1880-е [ править ]

Бруклинский мост
Город Бруклин на карте 1897 года, до объединения с Большим Нью-Йорком.
  • 1880 г. Теплица Weir в парке Сансет была построена в 1880 г. и значительно перестроена и расширена в 1895 г. [62] В 1984 г. она была внесена в Национальный реестр исторических мест [20].
  • 1883 г.
    • Открывается Бруклинский мост , охватывающий нижнюю часть Ист-Ривер от нью-йоркского острова Манхэттен недалеко от морского порта Саут-Стрит до Бруклинских высот .
    • Сформирована бейсбольная команда Brooklyn Grays .
    • Brooklyn Beef Company начинает свою деятельность. [22]
  • 1884 г.
    • Известный писатель и юморист Марк Твен (Сэмюэл Л. Клеменс) и Джордж У. Кейбл развлекаются чтениями и рассказами в Бруклинской музыкальной академии .
  • 1885 г. - начинает действовать Бруклинская надземная железная дорога .
  • 1886 - New Lots становится частью Бруклина.
    • Здание 75-го полицейского участка представляет собой трехэтажное здание из желтого кирпича в стиле романского возрождения .
    • Дом и конюшня 68-го полицейского участка - трехэтажное кирпичное здание с резными каменными деталями в стиле романского возрождения.
    • Дэниел Д. Уитни был мэром Бруклина с 1886 по 1887 год.
  • 1887 г.
    • Основание института Пратта и кафе Люгера .
    • Протестантская епископальная церковь Святого Георгия была построена в 1887 году в стиле архитектуры неоготического возрождения . Он построен из красного кирпича с отделкой из светлого камня в крестообразном плане.
    • Бруклинская академия фотографии . [63]
  • 1888 г.
    • Начато строительство Первой старой реформатской церкви на Парк-склоне . [64] [65] [66] Церковь была внесена в Национальный реестр исторических мест в 1998 году. [20]
    • Церковь Святых Луки и Матфея (Бруклин, Нью-Йорк) была построена в 1888–1891 годах как протестантская епископальная церковь Святого Луки и спроектирована Джоном Уэлчем в стиле романского возрождения . [67] [68]
    • Альфред Чапин избирается мэром Бруклина с 1888 по 1891 год.
  • 1889 г.
    • Эллиот Бакмастер (1889–1976) - военный; Офицер ВМС США; военно-морской летчик во время Первой и Второй мировых войн родился в Бруклине.
    • Организовано Бруклинское общество фотографов-любителей. [63]
    • Создан клуб Montauk .

1890-е [ править ]

Музей Бруклина (внешний вид показан) был основан в 1895 году
Клод Моне , Церковь в Верноне , (1894), Бруклинский музей.
Пьер Огюст Ренуар , Les Vignes à Cagnes , (1908), Бруклинский музей
Джон Сингер Сарджент , Пол Сезар Хеллеу, зарисовывающий с женой , (1889), в Бруклинском музее.
  • 1890 - Население: 838 547 человек, согласно переписи населения США 1890 года , что делает Бруклин четвертым по величине городом Америки.
    • ВМС департамент США в Бруклине флота Yard на Ист - Ривер , запускает на линкор нового поколения, Maine  (ACR-1) . Восемь лет спустя его взрыв спровоцировал короткую испанско-американскую войну .
  • 1891 г. - построена первая старая реформатская церковь .
    • Школа для мальчиков построена и сегодня считается «одним из лучших зданий Бруклина». [69]
    • 23rd Regiment Armory, in Crown Heights area, built 1891–95. Placed on the New York City Landmarks list and the National Register of Historic Places administered by the National Park Service, of the U.S. Department of the Interior[70][71]
    • Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic District, buildings built between 1891 and 1928.[72] Much of the industrial complex has since been converted to loft apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[20]
    • Афроамериканский (тогда называемый «цветным» или «негром») педагог и активист Букер Т. Вашингтон (1856–1915), президент Института Таскиги в Таскиги, штат Алабама, произносит речь о полном освобождении расы в Бруклинской академии наук. Музыка .
    • Контр-адмирал ВМС США Джордж Х. Купер умер и похоронен [73]
  • 1892 г. - Арка солдат и матросов посвящена памяти ветеранов и жертв гражданской войны , большую роль в которой сыграли люди и ресурсы Бруклина.
    • Построены апартаменты Renaissance на Хэнкок-стрит и Ностранд-авеню в районе Бедфорд-Стайвесант . [74]
    • Начинаются работы по строительству Большого Проспект Холла , банкетного зала в Парк Слоуп . Четыре-этажное здание в французском ренессансе стиле архитектуры . [75] и был внесен в Национальный реестр исторических мест в 1999 году. [20]
    • Приходской дом был построен при реформатской церкви Нового Утрехта .
    • Дэвид А. Буди избирается мэром Бруклина с 1892 по 1893 год.
  • 1893 г. - построена методистская церковь Эндрюса (позже Объединенная методистская церковь) .
    • Звезда бурлеска , водевиля и кино 20-го века, Мэй Уэст родилась в Бруклине [76] , американская актриса, певица, драматург, сценарист и секс-символ, чья карьера в сфере развлечений длилась семь десятилетий.
    • Методистская церковь Эндрюса (позже United Methodist) , одноэтажная асимметричная церковь из оранжевого кирпича с массивным розовым окном и трехэтажной квадратной колокольней .
    • Baptist Temple is designed in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture and features a large rose window and three corner towers.[77]
    • Category 3 hurricane destroys buildings in Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
  • 1894
    • Towns of Flatbush, Gravesend, and New Utrecht become part of the City of Brooklyn.
    • Eastern District High School opens.
    • Baptist Temple building completed.
    • 83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable for the Brooklyn City Police was built in the Romanesque Revival style.[78]
    • Чарльз А. Ширен избирается мэром Бруклина с 1894 по 1895 год.
  • 1895 - Бруклинский музей основан в здании площадью 52 000 м 2 , который планировалось стать крупнейшим художественным музеем в мире.
    • Забастовка троллейбусов в Бруклине подрывает торговлю; Национальная гвардия следит за порядком. [79]
  • 1896 - Основана Бруклинская публичная библиотека отдельно от системы публичных библиотек Нью-Йорка . [80]
    • Расширение Бруклина по населению, коммерческому / жилому и промышленному развитию достигло его естественных муниципальных границ на линии округа Кингс, и почти вся доступная территория теперь « урбанизирована ».
    • Основание поместья Леффертс , впоследствии ставшее национальным историческим районом на проспекте Леффертс Гарденс, Флэтбуш.
    • Избран Фредерик В. Вурстер, который позже становится последним мэром Бруклина . Его офис заменен президентом округа Бруклина, и мэрия Бруклина становится муниципалитетом Бруклина .
  • 1898 - Город Бруклин становится одним из пяти районов ( Манхэттен , Бронкс , Куинс , Статен-Айленд ) нового реорганизованного города Большого Нью-Йорка с новым муниципальным уставом после долгих споров, дебатов и кампаний на протяжении 1890-х годов. Против консолидации выступила главная ежедневная газета города Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
  • 1899 г.
    • Построена методистская епископальная церковь Грейс (позже становится Объединенной методистской церковью Бэй-Ридж).
    • Christ English Evangelical Lutheran Church built in Romanesque Revival architectural style on Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Later becomes Rugged Cross Baptist Church and placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
    • 1920s and early 1930s Chicago gangster and liquor smuggler against Prohibition of the 18th Amendment, Al Capone is born in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
    • Prospect Park South begins construction,[12][31] exclusively for large and expensive houses.[81]
    • Saitta House , двух с половиной этажей, на одну семью, построенный в стиле королевы Анны из деревянных деревянных и лепных домов английского типа на 84-й улице, между 11-й и 12-й улицами, в Дайкер-Хайтс , завершен ок. 1899 г. - архитектор Джон Дж. Пети и строитель PJ la Note для Симоны и Беатрис Саитта (произносится: вздох-ешь-а). [82] [83]
    • Аль Капоне родился в Бруклине в семье итальянских иммигрантов и был американским гангстером, получившим известность в эпоху сухого закона .
    • Walter Berndt (November 22, 1899Brooklyn, New York was a cartoonist known for his long-run comic strip, Smitty, which he drew for 50 years.

20th century[edit]

1900s[edit]

The former Rusell Benedict House (1902) at 104 Buckingham Road in Prospect Park South
Logo of the Brooklyn Dodgers/Superbas from 1910 through 1913
Coney Island "Cyclone" roller-coaster
  • 1901 – Brooklyn Law School founded.
  • 1901 – Brighton Derby inaugurated.
  • Adelaide Hall (1901–1993) – Jazz singer, songwriter, actress is born in Brooklyn and becomes a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance of African-American artistic performances.[84][85][86][87][88][89]
  • 1902 – Ditmas Park Historic District, a national historic district in the Ditmas Park area and consists of 172 contributing, largely residential buildings built beginning in 1902 to 1914.[90] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[20]
  • 1903 – Williamsburg Bridge opens, second major span across East River between Borough of Manhattan and Borough of Brooklyn, constructed of revolutionary steel I-beams assemblage.
    • The Coney Island Polar Bear Club is founded.[91]
    • 1903 to 1911 Dreamland contained primarily freak shows and an ambitious amusement park that was located at Coney Island, Brooklyn.[92][93][94]
    • Luna Park is the name of two amusement parks in Coney Island. The first Luna Park existed from 1903 to 1944 on the north side of Surf Avenue. A second Luna Park was opened on the former site of the nearby Astroland amusement park on the south side of Surf Avenue, on May 29, 2010.

[95]

  • 1905 – Construction starts on the Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park, which was built in 1905–1907 to a classical design of Helmle, Hudswell and Huberty, protégés of New York architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White.[96]
    • Senator Street Historic District – consisting of 40 contributing residential buildings (including two garages) built between 1906 and 1912. Later added in 2002 to National Register of Historic Places, maintained by National Park Service of U.S. Department of the Interior.[97]
    • The parsonage was built at the New Utrecht Reformed Church.
  • 1907- The first live singing performance over radio, when Eugenia Farrar sang "I Love You Truly" and "Just Awearyin' for You" over Dr. Lee de Forest's Amplitude modulation/arc radiotelephone located atop the Parker Building,[98] which was received by the USS Dolphin's wireless operator, Oliver A. Wyckoff, while docked at Brooklyn Navy Yard.[99]
  • 1908 – The Brooklyn Academy of Music moved to its present location. Brooklyn Academy of Music
  • 1909 – Construction is complete on the Manhattan Bridge, third major East River span and a gateway into Brooklyn from Canal Street in lower Manhattan.
    • Shaari Zedek Synagogue was built in 1909–1910, a two-story rectangular brick building with cast stone trim.[100] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

1910s[edit]

  • 1910 – Brooklyn Botanic Garden founded.
  • 1912 – Brooklyn Music School founded and owns and operates a four-story building located at 126 St. Felix St. that contains twenty-four classrooms, three dance studios, and a 266-seat Spanish Style theatre.
  • 1913 – Ebbets Field stadium opens.
  • 1914 – Church of St. Francis of Assisi built.
  • 1915
    • USS Arizona (BB-39) Launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sunk on Sunday, December 7, 1941 in the Pearl Harbor attack.
    • Austin, Nichols and Company Warehouse, designed by Cass Gilbert, using reinforced concrete on a huge scale.[101] It is now a listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is currently used as an apartment building.
    • Eli Wallach,[102] actor, was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, at 156 Union St..
  • 1916
    • Jackie Gleason, an American actor, born in Brooklyn.
    • Brooklyn Trust Company built a gigantic building inspired by ancient Roman and Italian Renaissance architecture at 177 Montague Street. The building was landmarked in 1996. The interior is also landmarked.[103] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[104]
    • Congregational Church of the Evangel, a historic Congregational church in Flatbush, Brooklyn & was built in 1916–1917 and is an asymmetrically massed Late Gothic Revival style building.
    • Storehouse No. 2, U.S. Navy Fleet Supply Base was a United States Navy Fleet supply base that was built during World War I.
    • Construction starts on the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Greenpoint, with designs by Louis Allmendiger and a plan is based on a Greek cross and is designed in the Russian version of the Byzantine style.[105] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[20]
    • Birth control clinic opens.[106]
  • 1917
    • 28th President Woodrow Wilson asks in April U.S. Congress to declare war on German Empire and later Austria-Hungary of Central Powers alliance, entering America into World War I. Industries, commerce and people of New York and Brooklyn enter into war mobilization until Armistice, November 11, 1918.
    • The New York City Subway's BMT Brighton Line (currently the B and ​Q trains) opens, after being rebuilt from a steam railroad to a rapid transit line.
    • Red Auerbach born.[107] coach of basketball teams including the Boston Celtics.[108]
  • 1918
    • Brooklyn Army Terminal is a large complex of warehouses, offices, piers, docks, cranes, rail sidings and cargo loading equipment on 95 acres (38 ha) between 58th and 63rd Streets in waterfront Sunset Park.[109] It is now leased and managed by the New York City Economic Development Corporation as a center for dozens of light manufacturing, warehousing and back-office businesses.[110]
    • New York Congregational Home for the Aged opens in Brooklyn, constructed in three stages; the center section and east pavilion in 1918, west pavilion in 1921, and a west wing in 1927.[111] New York Congregational Home for the Aged was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[20]
    • Carlton Avenue YMCA opens.[112]

1920s[edit]

  • 1920 – Temple Beth El of Borough Park, now known as "Young Israel Beth El" of Borough Park, is a historic synagogue in Borough Park, Brooklyn and was built between 1920 and 1923.[113]
  • 1921 – Magen David Synagogue, a Sephardic Jewish synagogue in Brooklyn.
  • 1921 – Zander Hollander is born in Brooklyn,[114] United Press International journalist and in the mid-1960s by becoming what Sports Illustrated called "the unofficial king of sports paperbacks" — particularly a once wildly popular series of[115][116]
  • 1922 - Brooklyn Tech opens.
  • 1924 – Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, built between 1924 and 1926 and is a stone clad Neoclassical style building.
    • Buddy Hackett [born "Leonard Hacker"]; (August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003): American comedian and actor in motion pictures, television and live acts and theatre, was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. He grew up on 54th Street and 14th Avenue in Borough Park.[117][118][119]
  • 1925 – Park Slope Jewish Center – known from 1942 to 1960 as Congregation B'nai Jacob – Tifereth Israel, is a Conservative synagogue in South Slope, a 2 1⁄2-story brick building with Romanseque Revival and Baroque style elements.
    • Young Israel of Flatbush, a historic synagogue in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn that was built between 1925 and 1929 and is a three-story Moorish-inspired style building.[120]
  • 1926 – Born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is actor, director and producer and live stage performances comedian Mel Brooks, who occasionally starred in his own produced features.[121] – actor, comedian, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
    • East Midwood Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue located at 1625 Ocean Avenue, Midwood section of Brooklyn, construction started in 1926 and was finished in 1929 in the Renaissance revival style of architecture.
  • 1927 – Coney Island Cyclone, a historic wooden roller coaster, that opened on June 26, 1927 in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn facing the Atlantic Ocean resort beaches at a cost of $175,000.[122]
    • Jerry Stiller comedian and actor (born June 8, 1927) in Brooklyn.
  • 1926 – Beth El Jewish Center of Flatbush. It features Byzantine and Gothic Revival decorative elements and is a landmark in the Flatbush area.[123] & is located in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
  • 1928 – Congregation Beth Israel, a two-story, rectangular buff brick building with Romanesque Revival and Classical Revival of Greco–Roman style elements.
    • Jewish Center of Kings Highway, a historic synagogue in Flatbush.
    • Bill Benulis was an American comic book artist in the 1950s, born in Brooklyn.
    • Kol Israel Synagogue, a historic synagogue in the Crown Heights community of Brooklyn.
    • Parkway Theatre opens,[124] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
  • 1929 – Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was built. At the time of construction, it was the tallest office building in Brooklyn, at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues.

1930s[edit]

  • 1933 - Born in Brooklyn is television talk-show host and interviewer Larry King –[125]
    • IND Culver Line (F, <F>, and ​G trains) opens to Church Avenue; extended to Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue along former BMT Culver Line in 1955[126]
    • The Manhattanville Resolutions advocates for desegregation and the civil rights of African Americans.[127]
  • 1935 – Sandy Koufax – baseball player is born in (Borough Park), Brooklyn. A left-handed pitcher, he played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966. Youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.[128]
  • 1935 – Woody Allen – Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician whose career spans over 50 years is born in Brooklyn
    • United States Post Office (Kensington, Brooklyn), historic brick post office building in the Colonial Revival style. For much of its history it was painted white. NRHP.[129]
  • 1936 – United States Post Office, a two-story, flat roofed red brick building with a one-story rear wing in the Colonial Revival style.[130]
    • United States Post Office, opened as Station "A", historic post office building at Williamsburg in Brooklyn, in the Colonial Revival style. NRHP[131]
    • United States Post Office (Flatbush, Brooklyn) a historic post office building, a symmetrical, two-story, red brick building with a gable roof and a large one-story rear wing.[132]
    • Louis Gossett Jr.Born: May 27, 1936, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and a lifetime fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers[133]
Louis Gossett Jr, Born: May 27, 1936
    • The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences merges with the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  • 1938 – John Corigliano, a famous composer who won an Academy Award, Pulitzer Prize for Music & Grammy Award was born in Midwood, Brooklyn
    • Elliott Gould an American actor born in Brooklyn.
  • 1939 – The original Kosciuszko Bridge opens.[134]
    • Parachute Jump, an amusement ride built for the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1941 it moved to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, and operated as part of Steeplechase Park until the 1960s. NRHP.

1940s[edit]

Lou Reed performing at the Hop Farm Music Festival (2011)
  • Richie Havens born in Brooklyn, January 21, 1941, singer.[135][136]
  • 1941–1945, At its peak, during World War II, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed 70,000 people, 24 hours a day.
    • December 7, 1941, the Attack on Pearl Harbor brings the United States into World War II the next day.
    • 1942, Born in Brooklyn is Tony Sirico, actor who played Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.[137]
    • 1942 – Lou Reed born in Brooklyn, rock musician & songwriter.[138][139][140][141][142][143][144]
    • Joy Behar[145] is an American comedian, writer, actress was born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn[146][147]
  • 1944 – Elevated railways removed from the Brooklyn Bridge
  • 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, singer.
    • Larry David (born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, July 2, 1947), comedian, writer, actor, and television producer.[148]
  • 1949 – Lyle Alzado, born in Brooklyn, professional American football player.[149] He played 15 seasons, splitting his time between the Denver Broncos, the Cleveland Browns, and finally the Los Angeles Raiders, with whom he won a championship in Super Bowl XVIII.[150]
    • Jackie Robinson House was a Brooklyn home of baseball great Jackie Robinson from 1947 when he was earned Rookie of the Year with the Brooklyn Dodgers through 1949 when he was voted Most Valuable Player. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[2][151]

1950s[edit]

D'Onofrio in 2011.
  • 1950 – Streetcar service discontinued on Brooklyn Bridge and other bridges.
  • 1951 – Tony Danza born April 21, 1951, Comedic actor in television.[152][153][154]
  • 1953 – Academy Award winner Ken Burns born.[155] (born July 29, 1953)[155]
  • 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, (born April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn)[156]), American comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer and famous for Seinfeld.
  • 1955 – Brooklyn Eagle daily newspaper in the borough since 1841, ceases publication after 114 years following labor strike.
  • 1956 – 1956 Bush Terminal explosion, Sunset Park
  • 1957 – Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, resident Soviet spy, is arrested.
    • Steve Buscemi, actor and director born.
    • New York Aquarium relocates from Castle Garden in Battery Park, Manhattan to Coney Island.
    • Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team and franchise in the National League of major league baseball departs for Los Angeles along with similar move by New York Giants to San Francisco.[157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164]
    • Andrew Dice Clay[165][166]

[167] (born "Andrew Clay Silverstein") controversial American comedian and motion picture actor[168][169]

  • 1959
    • Vincent D'Onofrio born on June 30, 1959.[170] Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer.[171]

1960s[edit]

Brooklyn Heights Historic District
  • 1961 – Actor, comedian, and writer Charlie Murphy is born in Brooklyn.[172] Charlie is also known for his work with his younger brother Eddie Murphy.
    • Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in operation.
    • Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn.[173][174] A comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician.[175][176][177] He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and has worked as a stand-up comedian.
  • 1963
    • The revised (1963) New York City Charter creates community boards within each borough.[178]
    • Mark Breland (born 1963) – actor and boxer; five-time New York Golden Gloves champion and won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics.
  • 1964 - Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens November 21, providing a gateway to suburban-style living for thousands of Italian-American Brooklynites.
  • 1965 – Brooklyn Heights Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark in January 1965,[2] designated a New York City Landmark in November 1965,[179] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 1966.[180]
    • Saint Ann's School, considered one of New York's most prestigious private schools, and well known for its lack of formal grading, is founded in Brooklyn Heights[181][182]
  • 1966 – Closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
    • The New Utrecht Reformed Church received landmark status.[5][6]
    • Flatbush Town Hall was designated a New York City Landmark.
  • 1967 – Wyckoff House was declared a National Historic Landmark.[1][2] The house is estimated to have been built in 1652, it is the oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America, and was one of the first structures built by Europeans on Long Island.
  • 1969
    • Shirley Chisholm becomes U.S. representative for New York's 12th congressional district.
    • Darren Aronofsky an American film director, screenwriter and film producer was born in Brooklyn, the son of public school teachers.[183][184] He grew up in the borough's Manhattan Beach neighborhood and graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School.[185][186]

1970s[edit]

  • 1970 – John Rankin House (Brooklyn, New York) – one of the finest Greek Revival houses in the city was designated a New York City landmark.[30]
  • 1971 – The French Connection is filmed in Brooklyn and is an American dramatic thriller film about crime, detectives, and the increasing worldwide nature of drug smuggling.
  • 1972 – The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York), founded in 1972, A.R.T./New York serves nearly 400 not-for-profit theatres throughout New York City. Its South Oxford Space in the Cultural District houses twenty-one performing arts organizations.
    • Flatbush Town Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
    • "Bang on a Can" founded as a twelve-hour music festival, later much expanded.
  • 1973 – State Street Houses were designated New York City landmarks, built between 1847 and 1874 in the Boerum Hill neighborhood.[3][31]
  • 1974 – "Quarters A" (commander's house) at the old Brooklyn Navy Yard was declared a National Historic Landmark.[2][187]
    • Fulton Ferry District consists of 15 contributing buildings built between 1830 and 1895 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[20] The district was the site of the terminus of the Fulton Ferry.[3] Today the area holds many popular attractions such as Pier One of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Grimaldi's pizza.
    • Jimmy Fallon was born on September 19, 1974 in Bay Ridge. Television host, performer and producer, hosting a later night-time variety show.[188] Fallon was best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live – Host of Weekend Updatefrom 1998 to 2004 and was host of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon from 2009 to 2014.[189][190][191][192]
  • 1975 The movie Dog Day Afternoon, set and filmed in Brooklyn starring Al Pacino, is released.
  • 1976 – Cobble Hill Historic District and consists of 796 contributing, largely residential buildings built between the 1830s and 1920s. It includes fine examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne style row houses and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
    • Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead was declared a National Historic Landmark.[1][2] Historians estimate that the Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead was constructed before 1766. During the American Revolution, it housed Hessian soldiers, two of whom, Captain Toepfer of the Ditfourth regiment and Lieut. M. Bach of the Hessen-Hanau Artillerie, scratched their names and units into windowpanes.
    • New York Transit Museum opens on July 4 in the old Court Street terminus for the IND Fulton Street Line.
  • 1977 – Saturday Night Fever, a musical film, starring John Travolta, in his break-out major role, is filmed in Brooklyn. Famous also for using the disco music soundtrack by The Beegees.
    • 23rd Regiment Armory was designated a New York City landmark.[31]
    • Horror film The Sentinet, filmed in Brooklyn Heights, is released January 7.
  • 1978 – John Rankin House (Brooklyn, New York) – one of the finest Greek Revival houses in the city was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[20]

1980s[edit]

  • 1980 – Park Slope Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[20] and consists of 1,802 contributing buildings built between 1862 and about 1920. The 33 block district is almost exclusively residential and located adjacent to Prospect Park.
    • 23rd Regiment Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its historic and distinct architecture.[20]
    • United American Muslim Association headquartered in Brooklyn.[193][194]
    • State Street Houses, 23 Greek Revival and Italianate rowhouses built between 1847 and 1874 and located at 291–299 (odd) and 290–324 (even) State Street between Smith and Hoyt Streets in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.[3][31] were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[20]
  • 1982 – Motion picture Sophie's Choice is filmed in Brooklyn
    • Astral Apartments, historic apartment building in Brooklyn & built in 1885–1886 as affordable housing for employees of Charles Pratt's Astral Oil Works was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982
  • 1983 – Astral Apartments (1885–1886) are designated a City Landmark.
    • Neil Simon film Brighton Beach Memoirs is filmed in Brooklyn
    • Brooklyn Army Terminal (built in 1918 for World War I) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing includes 11 contributing buildings on an area of 97.2 acres (39.3 ha).[20][195]
    • Carroll Gardens Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Placesc and consists of 134 contributing residential rowhouses built between the 1860s and 1880s. They are two and three-story brownstone buildings in neo-Grec and late Italianate styles featuring uniform setbacks, even cornice lines and stoop levels, and fenced front yards and landscaped gardens.[196]
    • Cypress Avenue West Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places[20] and includes 440 contributing buildings built between 1888 and 1906. They consist mainly of brick two and three-story row houses with one apartment per floor and three-story tenements with two apartments per floor.
    • Boerum Hill Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and consists of 238 contributing residential rowhouses and a few commercial buildings built between 1845 and 1890. Most are three bay, three-story brick buildings with projecting stoops in a Greek Revival or Italianate style.[3]
    • Ditmas Park Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and consists of 172 contributing, largely residential buildings built between 1902 and 1914. It includes fine examples of Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, and Queen Anne style single family homes. Also in the district is one church, the brick Neo-Georgian style architecture of Flatbush Congregational Church (1910).[3]
    • Fort Greene Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, built between 1840 and 1890. Most are faced in sandstone and exhibit characteristics of the Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, and Neo-Greco styles. It includes a 33-acre park designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1868.
    • Greenpoint Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, consisting of 363 contributing commercial and residential buildings built between 1850 and 1900, including both substantial and modest row houses, numerous walk-up apartment buildings, as well as a variety of commercial buildings including the former Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory, six churches, and two banks.[3]
    • Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[20] and consists of 16 contributing buildings built between 1891 and 1928. The largest and oldest building (Building 1 and 2) dates to 1891 and is located at the corner of Washington and Park avenues. It is a five-story, Romanesque Revival style building.[3] Much of the complex has been converted to loft apartments.
  • 1984 – Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 Italian epic crime drama film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. It chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organized crime. Once Upon a Time in America was filmed in Brooklyn.
    • Weir Greenhouse, is a historic greenhouse located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1880 and significantly rebuilt and enlarged in 1895.[3]
  • 1985 – Clinton Hill Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is made up of 1,063 contributing, largely residential buildings.
    • Long Island Historical Society, founded by Henry Pierrepont, (1808–1888) and others in 1863, under a charter from the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, changes its name from LIHS to the Brooklyn Historical Society. Located at 128 Pierrepoint Street near Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, in a historic mansion designed by architect George B. Post in 1878–1881.
  • 1986 – "No Sleep till Brooklyn" is a song by Beastie Boys as well as the sixth single on their debut studio album Licensed to Ill is recorded and released the following year.[197]
    • Clinton Hill South Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and consists of 246 contributing, largely residential buildings built between the 1850s and 1922. It includes fine examples of Neo-Grec style row houses.
  • 1987 – The movie Radio Days is filmed in Brooklyn and is directed by Woody Allen and is a movie that takes a look back on an American family's life during the Golden Age of Radio using both music and memories to tell the story.
  • 1988 – 651 ARTS was founded and is committed to developing, producing, and presenting performing arts and cultural programming grounded in the African Diaspora, with a primary focus on contemporary performing arts. 651 ARTS serves the cultural life of New York City, with a particular focus on Brooklyn, one of America's most culturally diverse communities.
  • 1989 - The movie Do the Right Thing, focused on racial tensions set in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was released. The movie has been named one of the best films of all time and is enshrined in the Library of Congress.

1990s[edit]

  • 1990 – Goodfellas is filmed in Brooklyn – a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and was nominated for six Academy Awards.
  • 1992 – Lefferts Manor Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[198]
  • 1993 – The Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park was seen in Scorsese's movie: The Age of Innocence (1993).
  • 1995 – Baptist Temple (Brooklyn, New York) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[20] Constructed in 1893–1894 in the Romanesque Revival style and rebuilt after a fire in 1917–1918.
  • 1998 – the parish house and the cemetery received landmark status at the New Utrecht Reformed Church.
    • The Carey Playhouse is converted to the four-screen Brooklyn Academy of Music Rose Cinemas, home to BAMcinématek, featuring repertory, independent, and foreign films.
    • Brooklyn Academy of Music – BAMcafé Live begins programming free weekend music in the Lepercq Space
    • Old First Reformed Church (Brooklyn, New York) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[20]

21st century[edit]

2000s[edit]

Brooklyn Navy Yard, Building 92 museum
  • 2000 – DUMBO Industrial District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[20] The district includes the earliest large-scale reinforced concrete factory buildings in America.[199]
  • 2001 – Brooklyn Cyclones – The team's new park, which was then called KeySpan Park, was completed in time for the 2001 season. Brooklyn had been without professional baseball since 1958.[200]
  • 2002 – A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2002 that created Brooklyn Bridge Park.[201]
    • The movie Deuces Wild is filmed in Brooklyn & is set in 1958 and Martin Scorsese was the executive producer.
    • Senator Street Historic District buildings built between 1906 and 1912. They are all three-story brownstone rowhouses in the Neo-Renaissance style.[3] Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • 2003
    • Gun court of law established.[202]
    • Williamsburg Houses were designated a New York City Landmark.
  • 2004 – Renovation of the 80 Arts – James E. Davis Arts Building, completed in Summer 2004, becoming the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District's first completed project.
    • Steiner Studios Opens at the site of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The 310,000-square-foot facility is the largest and most sophisticated studio complex outside of Hollywood, offering five soundstages and state-of-the-art film and television production facilities. Steiner Studios
  • 2006 – Brooklyn Book Festival and the show with zefrank begin.[203] "A Literary Voice With a Pronounced Brooklyn Accent"[204][205][206][207][208]
    • East Midwood Jewish Center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • 2007 – East River State Park opens on May 26[209]
    • Construction starts at Northside Piers, a 29-story – 180-unit building of luxury condominium tower in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
    • Opening of a 400-foot-long recreation pier with the city's finest waterfront sculpture, a dramatic, stainless-steel, curving canopy designed by Brooklyn artist, Mark Gibian and located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
    • Steiner Studios was the location of the 17th annual Gotham Awards held on November 27, 2007.[210]
    • We Own the Night is filmed in Brooklyn, American crime drama film written and directed by James Gray.
    • Brooklyn Ink in publication.[211]
  • 2008 – One Brooklyn Bridge Park, a building that converted 1,000,000+ square foot warehouse building located along Furman Street just south of Joralemon Street with over 400 residential units with 80,000 square feet of ground floor retail, and over 500 parking spaces.
    • April 2008, Brooklyn Flea opens.
  • 2009 – Shaari Zedek Synagogue & Congregation Beth Israel (Brooklyn, New York) were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
    • Brooklyn Academy of Music launches The Bridge Project, a transatlantic partnership with London's Old Vic and Neal Street Productions; productions of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, directed by Sam Mendes, open at BAM before touring the globe.
    • The City Council adopted a plan calling for expansion of the historic amusement area at Coney Island and the creation of new housing and investment in municipal infrastructure.

2010s[edit]

  • 2010 – Population: 2,504,700.
    • Steiner Studios, the largest US film and television production studio complex outside of Hollywood, started an expansion project within the Brooklyn Navy Yard.[212][213]
    • Young Israel of Flatbush was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
    • May 29, A second Luna Park opened on the former site of the Astroland amusement park.[95] in Coney Island. Luna Park includes 19 attractions[214] designed and manufactured by Antonio Zamperla, SpA (Zamperla).[215][216] Luna Park also operates the historic Cyclone Roller Coaster.[217]
  • 2011
    • In October, it was announced that Douglaston Development, which built the Edge, the adjoining property just to the north of Northside Piers, would build a 40-story rental tower on a site within the Northside Pier complex with construction scheduled to bring in March 2012.
    • The Brooklyn Flea opened the Williamsburg location.
    • Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrates ¡Sí Cuba!, a citywide festival of Cuban culture, with the BAM presentations of Creole Choir and Ballet Nacional de Cuba.
  • 2012
    • The Brooklyn Flea opened the DUMBO location at the historic Tobacco Warehouse.
    • In March 2012, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled five new sound stages (a total of 30,500 square feet (2,830 m2)) at Steiner Studios.[218] The new sound stages all feature two or three wall cycloramas.[219]
    • On February 2, 2012, the Weir Greenhouse was purchased by the neighboring Green-Wood Cemetery, which plans to preserve the greenhouse and restore elements which have decayed in recent years.[220]
    • In December 2012, the city approved 50,000 square feet of new creative, cultural, and community space at the "South Site" located at Flatbush Avenue and Lafayette Street.
    • In October, the $637 million Barclays Center, where the Brooklyn Nets play, opened.[221][222][223]
  • 2013
    • Saxophone player Fred Ho performed his final performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on October 11–12, 2013.[224][225] In 2009, he received the Harvard Arts Medal.[226][227]
    • Coney Island's historic B&B Carousell is open to the public after a five-year restoration.[228]
  • 2014
    • In May, the Brooklyn Navy Yard is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[229]
    • In June, the new Thunderbolt roller coaster at Coney Island opens.[230][231][232]
  • 2015
    • In January the movie Brooklyn, filmed in part in Coney Island.
    • Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016 headquartered in Brooklyn.
    • The landmarks commission designated a 16-block area bounded by Gates Avenue, Fulton Street, Bedford Avenue and Tompkins Avenue as the Bedford Historic District.[233] The 800 largely intact residential buildings represent various styles.
  • 2017
    • The first of two replacement spans for the Kosciuszko Bridge open.[234]

See also[edit]

  • History of Brooklyn
  • List of Brooklyn borough presidents
  • List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Kings County, New York
  • Mayors of the City of Brooklyn from 1834 to 1898
  • List of New York City Subway stations in Brooklyn
  • List of Brooklyn neighborhoods
  • List of streetcar lines in Brooklyn
  • History of New York City
  • Timeline of New York City
other NYC boroughs
  • Timeline of the Bronx
  • Timeline of Queens
  • Timeline of Staten Island

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Bibliography[edit]

Published in the 19th century
  • Historical sketch of the city of Brooklyn, Brooklyn: J. T. Bailey, 1840, OCLC 3325513, OL 6906515M
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  • Pictorial New York and Brooklyn, New York: Smith, Bleakley & Co., 1892, OL 23720975M
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Published in the 20th century
  • Ernest Ingersoll (1906). "Greater New York: Brooklyn". Rand, McNally & Co.'s handy guide to New York City, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and other districts included in the enlarged city (20th ed.). Chicago: Rand, McNally. OCLC 29277709.
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  • Edward Hungerford (1913). "Across the East River". The Personality of American Cities. New York: McBride, Nast & Company.
  • 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.

External links[edit]

  • Brooklyn Historical Society. Timeline
  • Items related to Brooklyn, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).

Coordinates: 40°41′35″N 73°59′24″W / 40.693°N 73.990°W / 40.693; -73.990