Timeline of Brooklyn
Appearance
This is a timeline of the history of Brooklyn, New York.
17th century
- 1646 – Village of Breuckelen authorized by Dutch West India Company.
- 1652 – The Wyckoff House is estimated to have been built in 1652, one of the first structures built by Europeans on Long Island. Only a small section remains from 1652.[1] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1967.[1][2] 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 City, was founded about 1658 and contains the graves of a number of the original patentees and their families.[3]
- 1664 – What is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland.
- 1677 New Utrecht Reformed Church established & is the fourth oldest church in Brooklyn.Both the church and the cemetery are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.[3][4]
18th century
- 1700 – New Utrecht Reformed Church built.[3][4]
- 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.[5] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
- 1766 – Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead is believed to have been built before 1766. During the American Revolution, it housed Hessian soldiers. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[2][6]
- 1776 – August 27 – Battle of Long Island (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn) was the largest battle in the American Revolutionary War .[7] 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.
- 1780 – Fort Brooklyn constructed.[8]
- 1786 – Erasmus Hall High School – founded as Erasmus Hall Academy.[9] Wooden schoolhouse[10] was opened in 1787. Later wings were added to the Academy building and removed.
- 1797 – Population: 1,603.[11]
19th century
1800s–1810s
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- 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.[12][13][14]
- 1804 – Martin Kalbfleisch (February 8, 1804 – February 12, 1873) was a pioneer in the chemical industry, mayor of the city of Brooklyn, New York from 1861 to 1863 and again from 1867 to 1871. During the American Civil War, Kalbfleisch was a United States Representative from New York .[15]
- 1805 – Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard was the residence of the commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- 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..
- John Ward Hunter (October 15, 1807 – April 16, 1900) was born in Bedford (now known as Bedford Stuyvesant), New York and from 1875 and 1876 was mayor of Brooklyn.
- 1809 – Long Island Star newspaper begins publication.[16]
- 1809 – Henry C. Murphy is born in Brooklyn, (1810–1882) was an American lawyer, politician and historian and was a Mayor of the City of Brooklyn in 1842. Brooklyn elected a mayor from 1834 until consolidation in 1898 into the City of Greater New York.
- 1816 – The incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn.
- 1819 – Casemate Fort, Whiting Quadrangle was designed in 1819 and built between 1825 and 1836. It is a historic building in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York City.[17] & was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[18]
1820s
- 1820 – USS Ohio is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Missions include suppressing the Slave trade off the coast of Africa.
- 1821 – United States Navy rear admiral George H. Cooper[19]
- 1823 – Apprentices' Library Association formed.[20]
- After the British evacuation, Fort Brooklyn was leveled between 1823 and 1825 for development.
- 1827 – James Street Market built.[21]
- 1828 New Utrecht Reformed Church established & is 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.[22]
1830s
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- 1830
- Construction starts on what would become the Fulton Ferry District[23] 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.[18]
- 1833
- First Unitarian Congregational Society established, designed by architect Minard Lafever & specifically this construction marks the beginning of the Gothic Revival in Brooklyn.[24]
- U.S. Naval Lyceum founded, (precursor to the US Naval Academy), Commodore Matthew C. Perry is instrumental in founding the Naval Lyceum.[25]
- 1834
- Brooklyn incorporated as a city.[26]
- First Reformed Church built.[27]
- George Hall is elected as the 1st Mayor of Brooklyn and served just one year, 1834.
- 1835
- Jonathan Trotter is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1835 to 1836.
- 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.
- Jeremiah Johnson is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1837 to 1838.
- 1838 – Green-Wood Cemetery established.
- 1839 – Cyrus P. Smith is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1839 to 1841.
1840s
- 1840 – John Rankin House (Brooklyn, New York) – Greek Revival.[29][30] It is a three-story, square brick building on a stone foundation. The interior features a massive mahogany stairway with paneled wainscotting.[31] Designated New York City landmark in 1970,[29] added to National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[10][18]
- Fort Greene Historic District, townhouses built between 1840 and 1890. The park was built on the site of fortifications built in 1776 and 1814.[32] Also located in the district is the Brooklyn Academy of Music.[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and expanded in 1984.[18]
- 1841 – Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication.[33]
- A ten-year project 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.
- Joseph Sprague is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1843 to 1844.
- 1844 – Bridge Street Methodist Church built.
- 1845 – Brooklyn Female Academy established.
- Thomas G. Talmage is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and just served one year, 1845.
- Boerum Hill Historic District is a national historic district in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York City. Houses are in a Greek Revival or Italianate style.[34] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 1846 – Francis B. Stryker is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1846 to 1848.
- 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.[35][36] The construction of the houses was part of the transformation of the formerly rural area into a fashionable new residential neighborhood.[30]
- 1848
- Cypress Hills Cemetery established.
- Hawkins Circulating Library in business.[20]
- 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.
- Edward Copland is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and just served one year, 1849.
1850s
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- 1850
- Plymouth Church built.
- Brooklyn Law Library founded.[20]
- An area later designated as the Greenpoint Historic District was built between 1850 and 1900. It includes the former Eberhard Faber factory, six churches, and two banks.[37] & is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Samuel Smith is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and just served one year, 1850.
- 1851
- Conklin Brush is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1851 to 1852.
- 1852 – Brooklyn Athenaeum & Reading Room founded.[20]
- 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,[38][39] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[40]
- Seth Low (January 18, 1850 – September 17, 1916), born in Brooklyn and was the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1882 to 1885
- 1853 – Brooklyn Young Men's Christian Association established.
- Edward A. Lambert is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1853 to 1854.
- 1854
- Packer Collegiate Institute opens.
- Brooklyn Excelsiors baseball team formed.
- Lawrence & Foulks shipyard in operation in Williamsburg.
- 1855
- Bushwick, Greenpoint, and Williamsburg become part of Brooklyn.[41]
- Brooklyn Atlantics baseball team formed.
- Polytechnic Institute opens.[25]
- George Hall is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1855 to 1856.
- 1857
- Mercantile Library established.[20]
- Friends Meetinghouse built.
- Philharmonic Society formed.
- Naval Surgeon 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 Baptist Church, later called Hanson Place Seventh-day Adventist Church.[10][42][43] The church was designated a New York City landmark in 1970, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[30][44]
- Samuel S. Powell is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1857 to 1860.
- 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.[45] He is credited with creating the first method of signaling pitches to his catcher.[46]
1860s
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- 1860 – Population: 279,122.[25]
- Kings County Savings Bank built 1860- 1868 in French Second Empire style. Now a landmark in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
- 1861
- Brooklyn Academy of Music is inaugurated; presents its first performance
- 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.[47]
- Park Theatre opens.[48]
- Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad begins operating.
- Cypress Hills National Cemetery the only United States National Cemetery in New York City, established to honor Civil War veterans. It has graves of soldiers who fought in the American Revolutionary War, Spanish-American War, Korean War and Vietnam War.[49]
- 1863 – Long Island Historical Society founded.
- 1864
- Brooklyn Sanitary Fair held.[50]
- Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh incorporated.
- Alfred M. Wood (April 19, 1825 – July 28, 1895), the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1864 to 1865 & was an officer in the 14th Brooklyn during the American Civil War.
- 1865 – Tilyou's Surf House established, Coney Island.[51]
- Prospect Heights Historic District (New York City), built between 1865 and about 1900 in a variety of architectural styles popular in the late-19th century.[52] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[18]
- 1866 – St. Paul's Church built.
- Samuel Rooth is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1866 to 1867.
- 1867
- Grand Army Plaza laid out.
- Charles Pratt and Company formed.
- Prospect Park, a 585-acre park in Brooklyn and designed by famous architects Frederick Law Olmsted & Calvert Vaux.
- St. Paul's Episcopal Church, built 1867-1884, designed by Richard Upjohn & Son[10] in the High Victorian Gothic style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[18]
- 1868 – Quaker Meeting House built.
- 1869
- Gowanus Canal built.[53]
- Adelphi Academy chartered.
1870s
- 1870
- St. John's College opens.[25]
- Population: 419,921.[25]
- Construction starts on what is now the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, national historic district in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn built between about 1870 and 1900. 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.[54][55][56][57]
- 1873
- Samuel S. Powell is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1872 to 1873.
- 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.
- Construction starts on Flatbush Town Hall, a historic town hall built in 1874–75 and designed by John Y. Culyer in the High Victorian Gothic style[30] in the Ruskinian mode.[58] It is a two-story masonry building on a stone foundation, and features a three-story bell tower with a steep hip roof.
- 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
- Frederick A. Schroeder is the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1876 to 1877.
- 1878
- Brighton Beach Line begins operating.
- Brighton Beach Hotel opens.
- James Howell is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1878 to 1881.
- 1879 – Brighton Beach Race Course opens.
1880s
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- 1880 Weir Greenhouse in Sunset Park was built in 1880 and significantly rebuilt and enlarged in 1895. Attached to the greenhouse is a one story brick office structure.[59] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[18]
- 1883
- Brooklyn Bridge opens.
- Brooklyn Grays baseball team formed.
- Brooklyn Beef Company in business.[21]
- 1884
- Mark Twain and George W. Cable entertain with readings and storytelling at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
- 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.
- Daniel D. Whitney served as Mayor of Brooklyn from 1886 to 1887.
- 1887
- Pratt Institute, 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.
- Brooklyn Academy of Photography incorporated.[60]
- 1888
- Old First Reformed Church, in Park Slope construction started.[61][62][63] The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[18]
- 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.[64][65]
- Alfred C. Chapin is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1888 to 1891.
- 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.
- Brooklyn Society of Amateur Photographers organized.[60]
1890s
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- 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.[66]
- 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.[67][68]
- 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.[69] Much of the complex has been converted to loft apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[18]
- Booker T. Washington delivers a speech on full emancipation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
- 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 City 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.[70]
- 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.[71] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[18]
- The parish house was built at the New Utrecht Reformed Church.
- David A. Boody is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1892 to 1893.
- 1893 – Andrews United Methodist Church built.
- May West is born in Brooklyn,[72] 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.[73]
- 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.[74]
- 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.[75] The Beaux-Arts building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, was planned to be the largest art museum in the world.
- Charles A. Schieren is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1894 to 1895.
- 1896 – Brooklyn Public Library established.[76]
- 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.
- Frederick W. Wurster is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1896 to 1897.
- 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 begins,[10][30] exclusively for large and expensive houses.[77]
- 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).[78][79]
20th century
1900s
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- 1901 – Brighton Derby inaugurated.
- Adelaide Hall – (1901–1993) Jazz singer, songwriter, actress is born in Brooklyn and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.[80][81][82][83][84][85]
- 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.[86] & was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[18]
- 1903 – Williamsburg Bridge opens.
- 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.[88]
- 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. [18]
- 1909 – Construction is complete on the Manhattan Bridge, a gateway into Brooklyn from Canal Street in Manhattan.
- Shaari Zedek Synagogue was built in 1909–1910 and is a two-story rectangular brick building with cast stone trim.[89] ans is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1910s
- 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. 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.[90] It is now a listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is currently used as an apartment building.
- 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.[91] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[92]
- 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.[93] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[18]
- 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.
- Red Auerbach was born in Brooklyn and[94] was an American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Boston Celtics. After he retired from coaching, he served as president and front office executive of the Celtics until his death.[95] Auerbach lead the Boston Celtics to nine National Basketball Association Championship Titles (1957, 1959–1966).
- 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.[96] 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.[97]
- New York Congregational Home for the Aged opens in Brookly, constructed in three stages; the center section and east pavilion in 1918, west pavilion in 1921, and west wing in 1927.[98] New York Congregational Home for the Aged was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[18]
1920s
- 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.[99]
- 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.
- Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker; August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) an American comedian and actor that was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of a Jewish upholsterer. He grew up on 54th and 14th Ave in Borough Park, Brooklyn, across from Public School 103 (now a yeshiva).[100][100][100][101] Hackett enlisted in the United States Army during World War II.[102]
- 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.[103]
- 1926 – Born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is actor Mel Brooks[104] – 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.[105]
- 1926 – Beth El Jewish Center of Flatbush. It features Byzantine and Gothic Revival decorative elements.[106] & is located in Flatbush, Brooklyn.
- 1928 – Congregation Beth Israel, 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,[107] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
- 1929 – Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was built, at the time of construction was the tallest in Broklyn.
1930s
- 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.[108]
- Born in Brooklyn is television talk-show host and interviewer Larry King –[109]
- 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.[110]
- 1936 – United States Post Office, a two-story, flat roofed red brick building with a one story rear wing in the Colonial Revival style.[111]
- United States Post Office, 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.[112]
- 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.[113]
- 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 – 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".[114] It was built for the 1939 New York World's Fair in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens,[115] and moved to its current site, then part of the Steeplechase Park amusement park, in 1941.
1940s
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- Richie Havens born in Brooklyn, January 21, 1941, singer.[116][117]
- 1941–1945, At its peak, during World War II, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed 70,000 people, 24 hours a day.
- 1942, Born is Brooklyn is Tony Sirico, famous Hollywood actor in the motion picture industry that famous played Peter Paul "Paulie Walnuts" Gualtieri a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.[118] in the Soprano crime family.
- 1942 – Lou Reed born in Brooklyn, rock musician & songwriter.[119][120][121][122][123][124][125]
- 1944 – The last year that the Brooklyn Bridge has Elevated Trains
- 1947 – Arlo Guthrie, born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, singer.
- 1949 – Lyle Alzado, born in Brooklyn, professional American football player.[129] 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.[130]
- 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.
1950s
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- 1950 – The last year that the Brooklyn Bridge has streetcars running on it.
- 1951 – Tony Danza was born in Brooklyn on April 21, 1951 and is an American actor known for starring on the TV series Taxi and Who's the Boss?, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards.[132][133][134]
- 1953 – Born in Brooklyn is Academy Award winner Ken Burns[135] (born July 29, 1953)[135] 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. Boardwalk Empire earned Buscemi two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe, and two nominations for an Emmy Award. Buscemi hosted NBC's Saturday Night Live in 2011. He made his directorial debut in 1996, with Trees Lounge, in which he also starred. Other works include Animal Factory (2000), Lonesome Jim (2005) and Interview (2007). He has also directed numerous episodes of television shows, including; Homicide: Life on the Street, The Sopranos, Oz, 30 Rock and Nurse Jackie.
- Brooklyn Dodgers depart for Los Angeles.[136][137][138][139][140][141][142][143]
- Andrew Dice Clay [144][145][146](born Andrew Clay Silverstein) is an American comedian and actor, born in Brooklyn. Andrew Dice Clay sold out Madison Square Garden two consecutive nights in 1990.[147] Currently only six comedians have ever sold out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row: Andrew Dice Clay, George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, Dane Cook, Chris Rock, and Kevin Hart.[148][149][150]
- 1959
- Vincent D'Onofrio was born on June 30, 1959 in [151] Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and is an American actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer.[152] An accomplished character actor, he has been referred to as "The Human Chameleon" and is often referred to as an actor's actor.and after doing some tech work, D'Onofrio turned to acting. Today, he's been called "The Human Chameleon" because of his versatility. He is known for his roles as Private Leonard Lawrence ("Gomer Pyle") in the war film Full Metal Jacket, "Edgar" in Men in Black and Detective Robert Goren in the crime TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. In 1986, D'Onofrio took on the role often considered the defining moment in his acting career, as Pvt. Leonard Lawrence, an overweight and mentally unstable Marine recruit in the movie Full Metal Jacket.
1960s
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- 1961 – Actor, comedian, and writer Charlie Murphy is born in Brooklyn.[153] Notable as being a cast member and writer on the Comedy Central sketch-comedy series Chappelle's Show.[154] Charlie Murphy: I Will Not Apologize premiered on Comedy Central in late February 2010.[155] Murphy also makes special appearances in 1000 Ways to Die and the TBS sitcom Are We There Yet? as Frank Kingston. Charlie is also known for his work with his younger brother Eddie Murphy and appeared in his fist movie Harlem Nights, a 1989 comedy-drama crime film starring Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. The film also featured Michael Lerner, Danny Aiello, Redd Foxx (In his last film; he died in 1991.), Della Reese. Murphy and Pryor star as a team running a nightclub in late-1930s Harlem, New York while contending with gangsters and corrupt police officials.[156][157]
- 1961 – Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in operation.
- Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn.[158][159] A comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician. . Box-office takes from Murphy's films make him the second-highest grossing actor in the United States.[160][161][162] He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He was ranked no. 10 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time.[163][164][165]
- 1963 – Mark Breland (born 1963) – actor and boxer; five-time New York Golden Gloves champion and won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics.
- 1965 – Brooklyn Heights Historic District was named a National Historic Landmark in January 1965,[2] designated a New York City Landmark in November 1965,[166] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 1966.[167]
- 1966 – Closing of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- 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 – Darren Aronofsky an American film director, screenwriter and film producer was born in Brooklyn, the son of public school teachers Charlotte and Abraham Aronofsky, who are Conservative Jews[170][171] of Ukrainian Jewish descent.[citation needed] He grew up in the borough's Manhattan Beach neighborhood, where "I was raised culturally Jewish, but there was very little spiritual attendance in temple. It was a cultural thing – celebrating the holidays, knowing where you came from, knowing your history, having respect for what your people have been through."[170] He graduated from Edward R. Murrow High School.[172] He has one sister, Patti, who attended a professional ballet school through high school.[173] His parents would often take him to Broadway theater performances, which sparked his keen interest in show business.[174][175] Aronofsky's interest in the outdoors led him to backpack his way through Europe and the Middle East.[176] In 1987 he entered Harvard University, where he majored in social anthropology and studied filmmaking; he graduated in 1991.[177]
1970s
- 1970 – John Rankin House (Brooklyn, New York) – one of the finest Greek Revival houses in the city was designated a New York City landmark.[29]
- 1971 – The French Connection 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.
- Flatbush Town Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 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.
- 1973 – State Street Houses were designated New York City landmarks, consisting of 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][30] The construction of the houses was part of the transformation of the formerly rural area into a fashionable new residential neighborhood.[30]
- 1974 – Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard was declared a National Historic Landmark.[2][178]
- Fulton Ferry District consists of 15 contributing buildings built between 1830 and 1895 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[18] The district is bisected overhead by the Brooklyn Bridge and 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, Brooklyn and is an American television host, comedian, actor, singer, musician and producer. He currently hosts The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, a late-night talk show that airs on NBC.[179] 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.[180][181][182][183]
- 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.
- 1977 – Saturday Night Fever is filmed in Brooklyn
- 23rd Regiment Armory was designated a New York City landmark.[30]
- 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.[18]
1980s
- 1980 – Park Slope Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[18] 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.[18]
- United American Muslim Association headquartered in Brooklyn.[184][185]
- 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][30] were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[18]
- 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 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.
- Brighton Beach Memoirs is filmed in Brooklyn
- 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).[18][186]
- 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.[187]
- Cypress Avenue West Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places[18] 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 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-Grec styles. It includes a 33-acre park designed by 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 factory, six churches, and two banks.[3]
- Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[18] 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. 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.
- Weir Greenhouse, is a historic greenhouse located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was originally built in 1880 and significantly rebuilt and enlarged in 1895. It is a rectangular, wood frame and galvanized iron building with projecting bays and domes in the Victorian commercial style. The main entrance is set at an angle to the street corner and is octagonal in form. The rooftop features an octaginal cupola with a ball finial. Attached to the greenhouse is a one story brick office structure.[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.
- 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.[188]
- 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.
1990s
- 1990 – Goodfellas is filmed in Brooklyn – a 1990 American crime film directed by Martin Scorsese and was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won one for Pesci in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category. Scorsese's film won five awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, including Best Film, and Best Director.
- 1992 – Lefferts Manor Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[189]
- 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)
- 1995 – Baptist Temple (Brooklyn, New York) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[18] Constructed in 1893–1894 in the Romanesque Revival style and rebuilt after a fire in 1917–1918. It has a brownstone base and superstructure faced with subtly textured brick with brownstone trim. The building features a large rose window and three corner towers.[3]
- 1998 – the parish house and the cemetery received landmark status at the The New Utrecht Reformed Church.[3][4]
- 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.[18]
21st century
2000s
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- 2000 – DUMBO Industrial District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[18] The district includes the earliest large-scale reinforced concrete factory buildings in America.[190]
- 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 the Brooklyn Dodgers left Ebbets Field for Los Angeles in 1958. After approximately three weeks of play, additional seats had to be added to the stadium to accommodate fans.[191]
- 2002 – A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2002 that created Brooklyn Bridge Park.[192]
- The movie Deuces Wild is filmed in Brooklyn & is set in 1958 and Martin Scorsese was the executive producer.
- Senator Street Historic District consists of 40 contributing residential buildings (including two garages) built between 1906 and 1912. They are all three-story brownstone rowhouses in the Neo-Renaissance style. The houses feature high stoops and full sized subterranean basements.[3] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 2003 – Williamsburg Houses were designated a New York City Landmark.
- 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. [19]
- 2006 – Brooklyn Book Festival and the show with zefrank begin.[193] "A Literary Voice With a Pronounced Brooklyn Accent"[194][195][196][197][198]
- East Midwood Jewish Center was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 2007 – East River State Park opens on May 26[199]
- 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.[200]
- We Own the Night 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.
- Brooklyn Ink in publication.[201]
- 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 [202] 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,"
- 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
- 2010 – Population: 2,504,700.
- Steiner Studios started an expansion project.[203] Steiner Studios is the largest US film and television production studio complex outside of Hollywood.[204] It is located on 20 acres within the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- Young Israel of Flatbush was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 2011
- October: 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.
- 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 $637 million Barclays Center opens and is the arena where the Brooklyn Nets play.[205][206][207] Barclays Center Capacity is 19,000 for shows & events approximately 17,732 for Brooklyn Nets NBA basketball games.[208][209][210][211]
- 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.[212] The new sound stages all feature two or three wall cycloramas.[213]
- 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.[214]
- 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.
- The Brooklyn Nets, a professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, are a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). An original member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), the Nets were founded in 1967 and initially played in Teaneck, New Jersey as the New Jersey Americans.[215] After 35 seasons in New Jersey, the team returned to the state of New York in 2012 to play in the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn as the Brooklyn Nets.[216]
- 2013
- In June 2013, it was announced that the operators of Luna Park at Coney Island, Zamperla, would construct a new steel roller coaster which would utilise the Thunderbolt name.[217] Luna Park will complete construction on the Thunderbolt in 2014.[217]
- Wold Famous Saxophone player Fred Ho Performs his final performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on October 11-12, 2013. [218] [219] In 2009, he received the Harvard Arts Medal.[220][221]
- Coney Island’s historic B&B Carousell is open to the public after a mammoth five year restoration of the 50 horses, all have a new coats of paint, new tails and refurbished joints.[222][223] For the restoration, Theresa Rollison, a painter with Carousels and Carvings, custom-mixed more than 80 colors to replicate the original hues. She then applied salmon pink, lemon yellow, metallic silver and maroon, using natural brushes made from badger, squirrel and hog bristle. “I wouldn’t have chosen to put some of the colors together, but overall it works,” she said.[224] The final part of the restoration was new horsehair tails for the 50 horses and with that the New York City Economic Development Corp paid $1,700,000 for the restoration.[225] For decades, Coney Island was something of a carousel headquarters. In the late 1800s, carousel makers set up shops there and by the turn of the century two dozen merry-go-rounds were operating on the island. There even evolved a Coney Island school of carousel design, distinct from the more staid Philadelphia and County Fair styles. The Coney Island style was characterized by a flamboyant, aggressive-looking horse — neck straining, nostrils flaring and tongue lolling. The B&B was built in Coney Island, with a frame dating to 1906, and at some point it operated in New Jersey, although it is unclear for how long. In the early 1920s it received a new set of horses that were carved by Charles Carmel, one of Coney Island’s celebrated carousel makers. It had returned to Brooklyn by 1935.[226][227][228][229]
- 2014
- In February 2014, The landmarks commission has proposed designating a 16-block area bounded by Gates Avenue, Fulton Street, Bedford Avenue and Tompkins Avenue as the Bedford Historic District.[230] The 800 largely intact residential buildings, representing Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival styles
- In March 2014 construction started on the new Thunderbolt roller coaster at Coney Island.[231][232][233][234][235] The Thunderbolt will be located near Surf Avenue and West 15th Street in Coney Island, and will be constructed with 2,233 feet (681 m) of track that will stretch to a height of 115 feet (35 m) and will be built next to the B&B Carousell, an antique merry-go-round that underwent an extensive restoration and reopened in summer 2013. The Thunderbolt is expected to be open by Memorial Day 2014.[236]
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
- Timeline of New York City history
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Further reading
- Published in the 19th century
- W. Williams (1850). "Brooklyn". Appleton's northern and eastern traveller's guide. New York: D. AppletonTemplate:Inconsistent citations
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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 29277709Template:Inconsistent citations
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External links
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- Brooklyn Historical Society. Timeline[dead link]
- Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Brooklyn, various dates.