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* 1888
* 1888
** [[Old First Reformed Church]], a historic [[Dutch Reformed Church|Dutch Reformed]] [[Church (building)|church]] at 126 7th Avenue on the corner of Carroll Street in the [[Park Slope, Brooklyn|Park Slope]]. neighborhood of [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York, New York]]. The congregation was founded in 1654.<ref>http://www.oldfirstbrooklyn.org/pages_mission/ourgifts_history.html</ref> The current church building was constructed in 1888-1893<ref name=aia>{{cite aia5}}, p.657</ref> and is a [[Gothic Revival architecture|Late Gothic Revival]] style Indiana [[limestone]] building on a [[granite]] base. It measures 100 feet wide and 162 feet deep. The front facade features a 212 foot high stone tower and [[spire]].<ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3364|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration:Old First Reformed Church|date=July 1997|accessdate=2011-02-20 |author=Peter D. Shaver|publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]]}} ''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3362|title=Accompanying four photos}}</ref> The church was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1998.<ref name="nris"/>
** [[Old First Reformed Church]], a historic [[Dutch Reformed Church|Dutch Reformed]] [[Church (building)|church]] at 126 7th Avenue on the corner of Carroll Street in the [[Park Slope, Brooklyn|Park Slope]]. neighborhood of [[Brooklyn]], [[New York City|New York, New York]]. The congregation was founded in 1654.<ref>http://www.oldfirstbrooklyn.org/pages_mission/ourgifts_history.html</ref> The current church building was constructed in 1888-1893<ref name=aia>{{cite aia5}}, p.657</ref> and is a [[Gothic Revival architecture|Late Gothic Revival]] style Indiana [[limestone]] building on a [[granite]] base. It measures 100 feet wide and 162 feet deep. The front facade features a 212 foot high stone tower and [[spire]].<ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3364|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration:Old First Reformed Church|date=July 1997|accessdate=2011-02-20 |author=Peter D. Shaver|publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]]}} ''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3362|title=Accompanying four photos}}</ref> The church was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1998.<ref name="nris"/>
** [[Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew (Brooklyn, New York)]] was built in 1888-91 as '''St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church''' and was designed by [[John Welch (architect)|John Welch]] in the [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] style.<ref name=aia>{{cite aia5}}, p.644</ref><ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3203|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration:St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church|date=June 1981|accessdate=2011-02-20 |author=Andrew S. Dolkart and Anne B. Covell|publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]]}} ''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3202|title=Accompanying seven photos}}</ref>
** [[Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew (Brooklyn, New York)]] was built in 1888-91 as St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church and was designed by [[John Welch (architect)|John Welch]] in the [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] style.<ref name=aia>{{cite aia5}}, p.644</ref><ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3203|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration:St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church|date=June 1981|accessdate=2011-02-20 |author=Andrew S. Dolkart and Anne B. Covell|publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]]}} ''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3202|title=Accompanying seven photos}}</ref>


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** [[83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable]] was built in the [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] style.<ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3082|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration:83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable|date=July 2003|accessdate=2011-02-12 |author=Roxanne Lord and Kathy Howe|publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]]}} ''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3084|title=Accompanying four photos}}</ref>
** [[83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable]] was built in the [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] style.<ref name="nrhpinv_ny">{{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3082|title=National Register of Historic Places Registration:83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable|date=July 2003|accessdate=2011-02-12 |author=Roxanne Lord and Kathy Howe|publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]]}} ''See also:'' {{cite web|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3084|title=Accompanying four photos}}</ref>


[[File:Brooklyn Museum June 2008 sunset jeh.JPG|thumb|right|Brooklyn Museum photographed in June at Sunset.]]
* 1895 - [[Brooklyn Museum]] founded and is {{convert|560000|sqft}}, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.<ref name="Spelling">{{cite web | author=Simon Spelling | year= | title=Brooklyn Museum | work=Arts & Events | work=[[The New York Times]] | url=http://nymag.com/listings/attraction/brooklyn-museum-of-art/ | accessdate=19 November 2011}}</ref> The [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] building, designed by [[McKim, Mead and White]], was planned to be the largest art museum in the world.
* 1895 - [[Brooklyn Museum]] founded and is {{convert|560000|sqft}}, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.<ref name="Spelling">{{cite web | author=Simon Spelling | year= | title=Brooklyn Museum | work=Arts & Events | work=[[The New York Times]] | url=http://nymag.com/listings/attraction/brooklyn-museum-of-art/ | accessdate=19 November 2011}}</ref> The [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] building, designed by [[McKim, Mead and White]], was planned to be the largest art museum in the world.


Revision as of 18:42, 24 September 2013

The following is a timeline of the history of Brooklyn, New York, USA.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

17th-18th centuries

  • 1652 - The Wyckoff 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. The majority of the current structure was added in the 19th century, with the small kitchen section dating back to the 18th century. Only a small section remains from 1652.[1] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967.[2][1] and is owned by New York City but is operated by a nonprofit.
  • 1744 - Joost Van Nuyse House, original section was built in 1744 and enlarged between 1793 and 1806. It was moved to its present site in 1925. It is a 1+1⁄2-story frame house with a steeply pitched flared roof.[3] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[4]
Smaller section, built c. 1744
  • 1766 - Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead, is a National Historic Landmark. It is believed to have been built 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. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[2][1] According to an embroidered needlepoint artwork currently on display in the main home building, it was owned and occupied by the Wyckoff Family from 1776 to 1835. The Bennett family owned and occupied it from 1835 to 1983, and the Mont family has owned and occupied it since 1983. The property is one of the last privately owned Dutch Colonial houses in New York City. Starting sometime around the year 2000 the City of New York planned to buy the house and land from its present owners, Annette and Stuart Mont, who would have remained on the property rent-free but those plans have since fallen through.[5]

The British set up a system of notorious prison ships off the coast of Brooklyn in Wallabout Bay, where more American patriots died of intentional neglect than died in combat on all the battlefields of the American Revolutionary War, combined. The Treaty of Paris in 1783 resulted, in part, in the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century.

Erasmus Hall High School on Flatbush Avenue photograped in 2008.
  • 1786 - Erasmus Hall High School - Erasmus Hall Academy was founded as a private school by Reverend John H. Livingston and Senator John Vanderbilt in 1786 and became the first secondary school chartered by the New York State Board of Regents.[7] Land was donated by the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church for the building and contributions were collected for “an institution of higher learning,” from leading citizens such as Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Peter Lefferts and Robert Livingston. The wood-framed, clapboard-sided, Georgian and Federal style school building,[8] two and one-half stories tall with hipped roof, was opened in 1787 with 26 students. Through the years, various wings were added to the Academy building and later removed.
  • 1797 - Population: 1,603.[9]

19th century

  • 1801 - Brooklyn Navy Yard built and at its peak covered over 200 acres & At its peak, during World War II was a 24 hours a day operation and employed 70,000 people.
Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • 1809 - Long Island Star newspaper begins publication.[10]
  • 1816 - The incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn.
  • 1820 - USS Ohio is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and is used to suppress the Slave trade off the coast of Africa. Yard-built ships including the USS Ohio, Savannah, Peacock, Dolphin, Vincennes, Fulton II, Decatur, San Jacinto, and Niagara, play key roles.
  • 1823 - Apprentices' Library Association formed.[12]
  • After the British evacuation, Fort Brooklyn was leveled between 1823 and 1825 for development.
  • 1827 - James Street Market built.[13]
  • 1828 New Utrecht Reformed Church established & is the the fourth oldest church in Brooklyn. In 1828, The present church was built in 1828 of stones taken from the original church built in 1700.
  • 1829 - Coney Island House opens.[14]
  • 1837
    • The 9-gun side-wheel steamer USS Fulton (1837) (Fulton II) is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and is the first U.S. steam warship assigned to sea duty.
John Rankin House at 440 Clinton Street Brooklyn and constructed in 1840
  • 1840 - John Rankin House (Brooklyn, New York) - Rankin was a merchant, and the mansion, one of the finest Greek Revival houses in the city,[19] was one of the largest residences in Brooklyn in the 1840s.[20] It is a three-story, square brick building on a stone foundation. The interior features a massive mahogany stairway with paneled wainscotting.[3] & was designated a New York City landmark in 1970,[19] and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[4] Currently it is the F. G. Guido Funeral Home.[8]
  • 1841 - Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication.
    • A ten-year poject is started by the U.S. Government at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in building its third granite dry dock, and for this project makes the first use of a steam-powered pile driver in the United States.
  • 1843 - Brooklyn Institute formed.

State Street Houses describes 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.[20][3] The construction of the houses was part of the transformation of the formerly rural area into a fashionable new residential neighborhood.[20]


Brooklyn Borough Hall
  • 1850
    • Plymouth Church built.
    • Brooklyn Law Library founded.[12]
    • Greenpoint Historic District, a national historic district in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It consists of 363 contributing commercial and residential buildings built between 1850 and 1900.

It includes both substantial and modest row houses, numerous walk-up apartment buildings, as well as a variety of commercial buildings including the former Eberhard Faber factory, six churches, and two banks.[3] & was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[4]

[22][23]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[4]


Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn
  • 1857
    • Mercantile Library established.[12]
    • Friends Meetinghouse built.
    • Philharmonic Society formed.
    • Naval Surgeon named E.R. Squibb starts his own pharmaceutical company outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which provides the majority of medical supplies for the Union Army during the Civil War.
    • Construction starts on Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist Church and designed by George Penchard in the Early Romanesque Revival style. The building, which is constructed of brick on a brick foundation covered in stucco, features an entrance portico topped by a steeply pitched pediment supported by four Corinthian columns, while the side facade on South Portland features pilasters.[3][20][8] The church was designated a New York City landmark in 1970, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[20][4]
  • 1858
    • Ridgewood Reservoir constructed.
    • Second Unitarian Church built.
    • The Brooklyn Navy Yard built USS Niagara and the British HMS Agamemnon meet mid-ocean to lay the first undersea telegraph cable. On August 5, Queen Victoria transmits the first Morse code message to the U.S.
  • 1859 - St. Francis College established.
    • Larry Corcoran was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.[25] In 1882, Corcoran became the first pitcher to throw two no-hitters in a career. Two seasons later, he became the first pitcher to throw three no-hitters, setting a record that would stand until 1965, when Sandy Koufax threw his fourth no-hitter. He is also famous for being one of baseball's very few switch-pitchers. A natural righty, Corcoran pitched four innings alternating throwing arms on June 16, 1884, due to the inflammation of his right index finger.[26] He is credited with creating the first method of signaling pitches to his catcher,[26] which consisted of moving a wad of chewing tobacco in his mouth to indicate what pitch would be thrown.[26]
Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch at w:Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York City.
  • 1870
    • St. John's College opens.[16]
    • Population: 419,921.[16]
    • Construction starts on what is now the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, national historic district in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. It consists of 577 contributing residential buildings built between about 1870 and 1900. The district encompasses 17 individual blocks (13 identified in 1975 and four new in 1996). The buildings within the district consist primarily of two and three-story rowhouses with high basements, with a few multiple dwellings and institutional structures. The district includes the Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, the Romanesque Revival style Mount Lebanon Baptist Church, and St. Phillip's Episcopal Church.[21][3][32][33]
  • 1874
    • Construction starts on Ocean Parkway (Brooklyn) & extends over a distance of about five miles (8 km), running almost north to south from the vicinity of Prospect Park to Brighton Beach.
  • 1875
    • Williamsburgh Savings Bank is built and designed by George B. Post and today is listed by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kings County, New York.
  • 1880 Weir Greenhouse is a historic greenhouse located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York, New York. It was originally built in 1880 and significantly rebuilt and enlarged in 1895. Attached to the greenhouse is a one sory brick office structure.[3]It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[4]
Brooklyn Bridge
  • 1890 - Population: 838,547.
    • The Brooklyn Navy Yard launched the ill-fated Maine was launched from the Yard's ways.
Brooklyn Museum photographed in June at Sunset.
  • 1895 - Brooklyn Museum founded and is 560,000 square feet (52,000 m2), the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works.[37] The Beaux-Arts building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, was planned to be the largest art museum in the world.
  • 1898 - Brooklyn becomes part of New York City.

Alvord also hired architect John J. Petit and a staff to design the houses in the development, although clients could also provide their own architect if they preferred to. Petit ended up designing many of the houses in the development, in a wide variety of styles, including Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Queen Anne.[20][8] The houses in Prospect Park South were required to be substantial, freestanding homes exceeding 3,500 sq/ft and costing over $ 5,000. Several other "restrictions" were placed upon builders wishing to develop the lots.[38]

    • Saitta House, a two-and-a-half-story, one-family Queen Anne dwelling completed ca. 1899 by architect John J. Petit and builder P.J. la Note for Beatrice and Simone Saitta (pronounced: sigh-eat-a). [39][40]

20th century

The former John S. Eakins House (1905) at 1306 Albemarle Road is just one of the numerous large houses in the historic district, many of them designed by John J. Petit. in Prospect Park South, Brooklyn

[41]


Senator Street Historic District - consists of 40 contributing residential buildings (including two garages) built between 1906 and 1912. [3]

    • The parsonage was built at the New Utrecht Reformed Church.
  • 1907- Opera singer Eugenia Farrar sings the first song broadcast over wireless radio. “I love you truly” broadcasts to test Dr. Lee DeForest’s arc radiotelephones on the USS Dolphin, docked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
  • 1908 - The Brooklyn Academy of Music moved to its present location. [1]
  • 1909 - Construction is complete on the Manhattan Bridge, a gateway into Brooklyn from Canal Street in Manhattan.
  • 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.
  • 1915 - USS Arizona Launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The USS Arizona, largest ship in the Navy, is launched during WWI but does not play a role in the war. On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a bomb from a Japanese plane ignites the forward ammunition magazine and the ship sinks in under ten minutes, taking 1,177 men to their deaths.
  • 1917 - Ocean Parkway (BMT Brighton Line) opens. An express station on the New York City Subway's BMT Brighton Line. Located at Brighton Beach Avenue and Ocean Parkway in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, it is served by the Q train at all times.
  • 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 and is a three story building with Moorish and Egyptian design influences.[3]
  • 1925 - Park Slope Jewish Center - known from 1942 to 1960 as Congregation B'nai Jacob - Tifereth Israel, is a Conservative synagogue in South Slope, Brooklyn, a 2 1⁄2-story brick building with Romanesque and Baroque style elements.
    • Young Israel of Flatbush, a historic synagogue in Midwood, Brooklyn that was built between 1925 and 1929 and is a three story Moorish-inspired style building faced in polychromatic patterned brick. It features horseshoe arches, minarets, and polychromatic tiles.[3]
Coney Island Cyclone
  • 1926 - Beth El Jewish Center of Flatbush, a rectangular red brick building with decorative white glazed terra cotta trim. It has a tripartite front facade with a central parapet. It features Byzantine and Gothic Revival decorative elements.[3] & is located in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
  • 1929 - Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was built, at the time of construction was the tallest in Broklyn.
  • 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
    • 1941-1945, At its peak, during World War II, the Brooklyn Navy Yard yard employed 70,000 people, 24 hours a day.

[2][1] Another house, at 112-40 177th Street in the Addisleigh Park neighborhood of Queens, was the Robinsons' home from 1949 to 1955. "Locals had recently canceled a restrictive covenant that forbade blacks from living in the area, so African-American stars such as jazz great Count Basie and Herbert Mills of the Mills Brothers quartet moved in." This other house is not currently landmarked, but may be included in a New York City Landmarks Commission historic district that is under review in 2008.[54]


  • 1950 - The last year that the Brooklyn Bridge has Streetcars.
Brooklyn Heights Historic District
  • 1972 - The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York) is the service and advocacy organization for the nation’s largest, most artistically influential and culturally diverse theatre community: Off Broadway. 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.
  • 1972 - The founding of Bang on a Can was founded by composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon. In the beginning, Bang on a Can started out as a one-day, twelve-hour music festival to a multi-faceted organization that includes a touring and recording ensemble (the Bang on a Can All-Stars); a commissioning program; a professional development/music institute for composers, conductors, and performers to record projects; and other programs that bring cutting-edge music to a wide audience.
  • 1981 - BOMB Magazine is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that publishes interviews and essays in which emerging and established artists can speak openly about their work. BOMB interviews are primary documents of American cultural history, with an archive of over 800 conversations between artists, writers, architects, directors, and musicians. The magazine aims to reveal, intimately and intellectually, the artist's creative process through in-depth conversation between peers.
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Once Upon a Time in America, movie poster
  • 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.
  • 1993 - The Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park was seen in Scorsese's movie: The Age Of Innocence (1993) as the Boston park where Archer Newland(Day-Lewis) meets Ellen Olenska(Pfeiffer)
  • 1998 - the parish house and the cemetery received landmark status at the The New Utrecht Reformed Church. [3][21]

21st century

  • 2002 - A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2002 that created Brooklyn Bridge Park. [2]
  • 2004 - The first phase of the District's development involved the renovation of the 80 Arts - James E. Davis Arts Building, which was completed in Summer 2004, becoming the Cultural District’s first completed project. The 30,000-square-foot building is home to twelve diverse nonprofit arts groups benefiting from below-market rents and shared amenities.
    • 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. [3]
  • 2007 - East River State Park opens on May 26 [60]
    • 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 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
    • Steiner Studios was the location of the 17th annual Gotham Awards held on November 27, 2007.[61]
    • We Own the Night (film) is filmed in Brooklyn, American crime drama film written and directed by James Gray and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Robert Duvall. It is the third film directed by Gray, and the second to feature Phoenix and Wahlberg together, the first being The Yards.
  • 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, Jonathan Butler, founder of Brownstoner.com, Brooklyn’s biggest blog, and Eric Demby, former communications director for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, have operated the Brooklyn Flea, a weekly outdoor market in Fort Greene and other “pop-up” locations that features 150 local and regional vendors of antiques, vintage clothing, handmade items, jewelry, food, bicycles, records, and more. Now in its fifth year, the Flea has grown into a New York City institution, garnering local, national, and international press for its diversity of vendors, for the quality of food and merchandise, for the inclusive community aspects of the market's atmosphere, and for the economic stimulus the market provides to both vendors/entrepreneurs and local businesses.
  • 2009 - The Brooklyn Flea [4] was proud to receive a Certificate of Merit from the Municipal Art Society for making an "exceptional contribution to the life of New York City,"
  • 2010 - Population: 2,504,700.
    • Steiner Studios started a gigantic expansion to double in size, constructing five new sound stages and adaptively reusing the former Navy Applied Science Laboratory. A partnership with Brooklyn College will introduce the nation’s first affordable film school at an active studio lot & also features a 100-seat screening room and a full commissary, on-site parking, 24/7 security and lighting and grip equipment services.[62] Steiner Studios is the largest US film and television production studio complex outside of Hollywood.[63] It is located on 20 acres within the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
  • October, 2011, it was announced that Douglaston Development, which built the Edge, the adjoining property just to the north of Northside Piers, would built a 40-story rental tower on a site within the Northside Pier complex with construction scheduled to bring in March 2012.
  • 2011 - The Brooklyn Flea opened The Williamsburg location.
  • 2012 - Barclays Center opens
    • 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.[64] The new sound stages all feature two or three wall cycloramas.[65]
    • On February 2nd, 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.[66]
    • In December 2012, Mayor Bloomberg announced three major milestones to further strengthen the cultural community in Downtown Brooklyn. The City approved the plan for Two Trees Management to create 50,000 square feet of new creative, cultural, and community space at the “South Site” located at Flatbush Avenue and Lafayette Street.

See also

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Further reading

Published in the 18th or 19th century
  • W. Williams (1850), "Brooklyn", Appleton's northern and eastern traveller's guide, New York: D. Appleton {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • Henry Reed Stiles (1867), A history of the city of Brooklyn, Brooklyn: Pub. by subscription
  • "Brooklyn", Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Cities, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
  • Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1898). Almanac: 1898 (2nd ed.). Brooklyn.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Harrington Putnam (1899), "Brooklyn", in Lyman P. Powell (ed.), Historic towns of the middle states, New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, OCLC 248109 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
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 {{citation}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
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