Timeline of Brooklyn
The following is a timeline of the history of Brooklyn, New York, USA.
17th-18th centuries
- 1646 - Village of Breuckelen authorized by Dutch West India Company.
- 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.
- 1658 Old Gravesend Cemetery - National Register of Historic Places, a cemetery at Gravesend Neck Road and McDonald Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York, New York. The cemetery was founded about 1658 and contains the graves of a number of the original patentees and their families. Lady Deborah Moody, founder of Gravesend, is believed to be buried in the cemetery.[3] 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]
- 1664 - What is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland.
- 1677 New Utrecht Reformed Church established & is the the fourth oldest church in Brooklyn.
- 1700 - New Utrecht Reformed Church built.
- 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]
- 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]
- 1776 - August 27 - Battle of Long Island (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn) was the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the modern sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park, and Grand Army Plaza.[6]
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.
- 1780 - Fort Brooklyn constructed.
- 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.
- 1805 - Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard was the residence of the commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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- 1807 - The federal style commandant's house at the Brooklyn Navy Yard was designed by Charles Bulfinch, architect of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C..
- 1809 - Long Island Star newspaper begins publication.[10]
- 1816 - The incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn.
- 1819 - With a brick and stone "C" shaped structure with all walls approximately three feet thick, Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle was designed in 1819 and built between 1825 and 1836. & also known as "Old Casemate," Officers Club Bldg. #207, Sentry Booth #220, and Fort Hamilton Community Club, is a historic building located in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, New York. [3] & was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[4]
- 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.
- 1821 - United States Navy rear admiral George H. Cooper [11]
- 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]
- 1830
- Construction starts on what would become the Fulton Ferry District [3] Today the area holds many popular attractions such as Pier one of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and Grimaldi's pizza. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[4]
- 1833
- First Unitarian Congregational Society established, designed by architect Minard Lafever & specifically this construction marks the beginning of the Gothic Revival in Brooklyn.[15]
- U.S. Naval Lyceum founded, (precursor to the US Naval Academy), Commodore Matthew C. Perry is instrumental in founding the Naval Lyceum.[16]
- 1834
- Brooklyn incorporated as a city.[17]
- First Reformed Church built.[18]
- 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.
- 1838 - Green-Wood Cemetery established.
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- 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]
- Fort Greene Historic District is a concentration of architecturally distinguished three and four story townhouses developed speculatively and built between 1840 and 1890. The park was built on the site of fortifications built in 1776 and 1814.[3] Also located in the district is the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[21] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and expanded in 1984.[4]
- 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.
- 1844 - Bridge Street Methodist Church built.
- 1845 - Brooklyn Female Academy established.
- 1847
- Church of the Holy Trinity built.
- Central Presbyterian Church established.
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]
- 1848
- Cypress Hills Cemetery established.
- Hawkins Circulating Library in business.[12]
- Brooklyn Borough Hall was built as a City Hall & designed by architects Calvin Pollard and Gamaliel King in the Greek Revival style, and constructed of Tuckahoe marble.
- 1849 - Cemetery of the Evergreens established.
- 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]
- 1852 - Brooklyn Athenaeum & Reading Room founded.[12]
- At the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a young Naval Surgeon named E.R. Squibb seeks assignment to the Naval Hospital where he perfects manufacture of anesthetic ether.
- Construction starts on the South Bushwick Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Complex,
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[4]
- 1853 - Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association established.
- 1854
- Packer Collegiate Institute opens.
- Brooklyn Excelsiors baseball team formed.
- 1855
- Bushwick, Greenpoint, and Williamsburg become part of Brooklyn.[24]
- Brooklyn Atlantics baseball team formed.
- Polytechnic Institute opens.[16]
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- 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]
- 1860 - Population: 279,122.[16]
- Construction starts on the Kings County Savings Bank & is completed in 1868 after the Civil War and is constructed of Dorchester sandstone in the architecture style of French Second Empire-style architecture. Today the building is a New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission-designated building in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn section of New York City.
- 1861
- Brooklyn Academy of Music is inaugurated. The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented its first performance in 1861
- Martin Kalbfleisch becomes mayor.
- Brooklyn played a major role in supplying troops and materiel for the American Civil War, 14th Brooklyn "Red Legged Devils". They fought from 1861 to 1864 and wore red the entire war.
- 1862
- Court House built.[27]
- Park Theatre opens.[28]
- Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad begins operating.
- Cypress Hills National Cemetery the only United States National Cemetery in New York City and has more than 21,100 interments of veterans and civilians. There are 24 Medal of Honor recipients buried in the cemetery, including three men who won the award twice. Although Cypress Hills was established to honor Civil War veterans, its grounds include the graves of soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War, Spanish-American War, Korean War and Vietnam War.[29]
- 1863 - Long Island Historical Society founded.
- 1864
- Brooklyn Sanitary Fair held.[30]
- Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh incorporated.
- 1865 - Tilyou’s Surf House established, Coney Island.[31]
- Prospect Heights Historic District (New York City) formed & consists of 305 contributing buildings built between 1865 and about 1900. The district is almost exclusively residential and includes a variety of single family rowhouses and multiple dwellings. They are in a variety of architectural styles popular in the late-19th century.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[4]
- 1866 - St. Paul's Church built.
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- 1867
- Grand Army Plaza laid out.
- Charles Pratt and Company formed.
- Prospect Park (Brooklyn), a 585-acre park in Brooklyn and designed by famous architects Frederick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux.
- Construction starts on St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Brooklyn, New York), built from 1867 to 1884 and was designed by Richard Upjohn & Son[8] in the High Victorian Gothic style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[4] The parish is part of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, in the Anglo-Catholic tradition.
- 1868 - Quaker Meeting House built.
- 1869
- Gowanus Canal built.
- Adelphi Academy chartered.
- 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.
- 1876 - Brooklyn Theater Fire
- 1878
- Brighton Beach Line begins operating.
- Brighton Beach Hotel opens.
- 1879 - Brighton Beach Race Course opens.
- 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]
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- 1883
- Brooklyn Bridge opens.
- Brooklyn Grays baseball team formed.
- Brooklyn Beef Company in business.[13]
- 1885 - Brooklyn Elevated Railroad begins operating.
- 1886 - New Lots becomes part of Brooklyn.
- 75th Police Precinct Station House is a three story, yellow brick building above a sandstone foundation and watertable in the Romanesque Revival style in Brooklyn.
- 68th Police Precinct Station House and Stable, a three story brick building with carved stone detailing in the Romanesque Revival style in Brooklyn.
- 1887
- Pratt Institute established.
- Luger's Café established.
- St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church (Brooklyn) was built in 1887 in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of red brick with light stone trim in a cruciform plan.
- 1888
- Old First Reformed Church, a historic Dutch Reformed church at 126 7th Avenue on the corner of Carroll Street in the Park Slope. neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, New York. The congregation was founded in 1654.[34] The current church building was constructed in 1888-1893[8] and is a 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.[3] The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[4]
- 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 in the Romanesque Revival style.[8][3]
- 1889
- Elliott Buckmaster (1889–1976) – military person; U.S. Navy officer; naval aviator during World War I and World War II was born in Brooklyn.
- 1890 - Population: 838,547.
- 1891 - Old First Reformed Church built.
- Boy's High School built and today is regarded as "one of Brooklyn's finest buildings.[35]
- 23rd Regiment Armory, a historic National Guard armory building located in the Crown Heights, Brooklyn and was built in 1891-95 and was designed in the Romanesque Revival style by Fowler & Hough, local Brooklyn architects, and Isaac Perry, the architect for New York State, which financed the construction.[20][8]
- Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic District, The complex 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. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[4]
- 1892 - Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch dedicated.
- Renaissance Apartments, a five story masonry building in the French Renaissance style historic apartment building located at Hancock Street and Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, New York and is elaborately decorated principal facades and prominent circular corner towers with slate covered conical roofs. Construction designed a steeply sloped slate mansard roofs with terra cotta ridge caps and gabled roof dormers.[3]
- Construction starts on Grand Prospect Hall, a large Victorian banquet hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. A four story building faced in buff-gray brick in the French Renaissance style. It features pressed metal decoration originally painted in imitation of limestone.[3] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[4]
- The parish house was built at the New Utrecht Reformed Church.
- 1893 - Andrews United Methodist Church built.
- May West is born in Brooklyn,[36] an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.
- Andrews United Methodist Church a one-story, asymmetrical orange brick church in the Queen Anne style. It features a massive rose window on the front facade and a three-story, square bell tower in Brooklyn.
- Baptist Temple (Brooklyn, New York) is built in the Romanesque Revival style & features a large rose window and three corner towers.[3]
- 1894
- Flatbush, Gravesend, and New Utrecht become part of Brooklyn.
- Eastern District High School opens.
- Baptist Temple built.
- 83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable was built in the Romanesque Revival style.[3]
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- 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.
- 1896 - Brooklyn Public Library established.
- Brooklyn had reached its natural municipal boundaries at the Kings County line.
- Lefferts Manor Historic District established, a national historic district in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, Brooklyn.
- 1898 - Brooklyn becomes part of New York City.
- 1899
- Grace Methodist Episcopal Church built.
- Christ Evangelical English Lutheran Church built.
- Al Capone is born in Park Slope, Brooklyn
- Prospect Park South, Brooklyn, In 1899 developer Dean Alvord purchased about 60 acres (24 ha) of farmland.
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
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- 1901 - Brighton Derby inaugurated.
- 1902 - Ditmas Park Historic District, is a national historic district in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn & consists of 172 contributing, largely residential buildings built between 1902 and 1914. [3] & was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[4]
- 1903 - Williamsburg Bridge opens.
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- 1905 - Construction starts on the Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park was built in 1905-07 to a classical design of Helmle, Hudswell and Huberty, protégés of McKim, Mead and White.
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.
- 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 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.
- 1916 - Jackie Gleason an American actor born in Brooklyn and was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, exemplified by his character Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners. Among his notable film roles were Minnesota Fats in the 1961 drama The Hustler (starring Paul Newman) and Buford T. Justice for the movies Smokey and the Bandit.
- Brooklyn Trust Company built a gigantic building inspired by ancient Roman and Italian Renaissance architecture at 177 Montague Street in Brooklyn. The banking hall has large chandeliers hanging from vaulted, coffered ceilings, arched windows, and a Cosmati-style mosaic marble floor. The building was landmarked in 1996. The interior is also landmarked.[42] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
- 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 One.
- Construction starts on the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, 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. The building features characteristic Onion domes atop four octagonal towers and a large central dome each topped by a large, gilded Russian Orthodox cross.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[4]
- 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.
- 1918 - Brooklyn Army Terminal is a large complex of warehouses, offices, piers, docks, cranes, rail sidings and cargo loading equipment on 95 acres (380,000 m2) between 58th and 63rd Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York. During World War II, the terminal was responsible for shipment of 85% of army equipment and personnel overseas; 38,000,000 tons of supplies and over 3 million soldiers.[43] The site was sold to New York City in 1981 and was then totally renovated. 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.[44]
- New York Congregational Home for the Aged opens in Brookly, a three story brick institutional building in the Colonial Revival style and was constructed in three stages; the center section and east pavilion in 1918, west pavilion in 1921, and west wing in 1927.[3]New York Congregational Home for the Aged was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[4]
- 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]
- 1921 - Magen David Synagogue, a Sephardic synagogue in Brooklyn, New York.
- 1924 - Ocean Parkway Jewish Center, built between 1924 and 1926 and is a stone clad Neoclassical style building.
- 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]
- 1926 - Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is actor Mel Brooks[45] – actor, comedian, film director, film producer and screenwriter (Williamsburg)
- East Midwood Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue located at 1625 Ocean Avenue, Midwood, Brooklyn constructed started in 1926 and was finished in 1929 in the Renaissance revival.
- 1927 - Coney Island Cyclone, a historic wooden roller coaster, that opened on June 26, 1927 in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn at a cost of $175,000.[46]
- 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.
- 1928 - Congregation_Beth_Israel_(Brooklyn,_New_York), a two story, rectangular buff brick building with Romanesque and Classical Revival style elements.
- Jewish Center of Kings Highway, a historic synagogue in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
- Kol Israel Synagogue, a historic synagogue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
- Wilson Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line) opens & is located at the intersection of Wilson Avenue and Moffat Street in Brooklyn, it is served by the L train at all times.
- Parkway Theatre opens, [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.[47]
- 1929 - Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was built, at the time of construction was the tallest in Broklyn.
- 1933 - 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. He retired at the peak of his career, and in 1972 became the youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, aged 36 years and 20 days.[48]
- Born in Brooklyn is television talk-show host and interviewer Larry King – [49]
- 15th Street – Prospect Park (IND Culver Line) Underground train station opens
- Fourth Avenue / Ninth Street (New York City Subway) Underground train station opens
- 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) a two story, six bay wide brick historic post office building in the Colonial Revival style. For much of its history it was painted white. It features a projecting pedimented wooden portico supported on Doric order piers.[3]
- 1936 - United States Post Office (Bensonhurst, Brooklyn), a two story, flat roofed red brick building with a one story rear wing in the Colonial Revival style.[3]
- United States Post Office (Williamsburg, Brooklyn), , originally known as Station "A," is a historic post office building located at Williamsburg in Brooklyn, a two story, flat roofed brick building with a three bay wide central pavilion flanked by three bay wide wings in the Colonial Revival style.[3]
- 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.[3]
- 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 - Kosciuszko Bridge opens.
- Parachute Jump is a defunct amusement ride in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, whose iconic open-frame steel structure remains a Brooklyn landmark. 250 feet (76 m) tall and weighing 170 tons (150 tonnes), it has been called the "Eiffel Tower of Brooklyn".[50] It was built for the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens,[51] and moved to its current site, then part of the Steeplechase Park amusement park, in 1941.
- 1941-1945, At its peak, during World War II, the Brooklyn Navy Yard yard employed 70,000 people, 24 hours a day.
- 1944 - The last year that the Brooklyn Bridge has Elevated Trains
- 1947 - Arlo Guthrie is born in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Arlo is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice. Guthrie's best-known work is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song about 18 minutes in length. His song Massachusetts was named the official folk song of the state where he has lived most of his adult life.
- 1949 - Lyle Alzado was born in Brooklyn and was a professional American football defensive end of the National Football League famous for his intense and intimidating style of play.[52] 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.[53]
- 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][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.
- 1953 - Born in Brooklyn is Academy Award winner Ken Burns [55] (born July 29, 1953)[55] is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs. His most widely known documentaries are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011) and The Central Park Five (2012)
- 1955 - Brooklyn Eagle newspaper ceases publication.
- 1957 - Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher, resident Soviet spy, is arrested.
- Steve Buscemi was born in Brooklyn and Buscemi currently stars in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, playing Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on Enoch L. Johnson), a corrupt Atlantic City politician who rules the town during the Prohibition era. Buscemi won a Golden Globe award for best lead actor in a drama series and hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live in 2011.
- Brooklyn Dodgers depart for Los Angeles.
- 1961 - Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in operation.
- Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn
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- 1965 - Brooklyn Heights Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark in January, 1965,[2] designated a New York City Landmark in November, 1965,[56] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in October, 1966.[57]
- 1966 - Closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- 1971 - The French Connection (film) is filmed in Brooklyn and is an American dramatic thriller film directed by William Friedkin, produced by Philip D'Antoni with music by Don Ellis. It starred Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey and Roy Scheider.
- 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.
- 1974 - Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974.[2][1]
- 1977 - Saturday Night Fever is filmed in Brooklyn
- 1980 - Park Slope Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[4] 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.
- 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.
- 1982 - Sophie's Choice (film) is filmed in Brooklyn
- 1983 - Brighton Beach Memoirs is filmed in Brooklyn
- Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[4] and consists of 16 contributing buildings built between 1891 and 1928.
- Brooklyn Army Terminal (built in 1918) 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).[4][58]
- Cypress Avenue West Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[4]
- 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. The film explores themes of childhood friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss, broken relationships, and the rise of mobsters in American society. Once Upon a Time in America was filmed in Brooklyn.
- 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. [59]
- 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.
- 1990 - Goodfellas is filmed in Brooklyn
- 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]
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- 2000 - DUMBO Industrial District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[4] The district includes the earliest, large scale reinforced concrete factory buildings in America.[3]
- 2002 - A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2002 that created Brooklyn Bridge Park. [2]
- The movie Deuces Wild is filmed in Brooklyn & is set in 1958 and Martin Scorsese was the executive producer.
- 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
- History of Brooklyn
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Kings County, New York
- Mayors of the City of Brooklyn from 1834 to 1898
- History of New York City
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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
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- "Brooklyn", Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Cities, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876
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- 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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- Brooklyn Historical Society. Timeline