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2 days ago · Early in the 19th century, Brooklyn became the world’s first modern commuter suburb, and Brooklyn Heights was transformed into a wealthy residential community. The most populous section of Brooklyn was incorporated in 1816 as a village and in 1834 as a city.
Brooklyn became a part of the West Riding of York Shire in the Province of New York, one of the Middle Colonies of nascent British America. On November 1, 1683, Kings County was partitioned from the West Riding of York Shire, containing the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island, [30] as one of the "original twelve counties". This ...
1898 – (1 January) City of Brooklyn becomes one of five boroughs (Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island), of the new reorganized City of Greater New York, with a new municipal charter after a long controversy, debate and campaign through the 1890s. [3]
Jul 24, 2014 · The answer is simple: as late as 1894, that area was the southern extreme of the City of Brooklyn. What we know today as Brooklyn is better described, historically, by its synonymous...
4 days ago · To the chagrin of New York, Brooklyn became an independent city in 1834 and soon adopted the grid form of street layout. By the 1880s it had about 20,000 industrial jobs and handled more waterborne tonnage than its rival; during the American Civil War the Monitor had been constructed at the Continental Iron Works in Greenpoint.
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2 days ago · By 1834, Brooklyn became its own city and was in what is today Downtown Brooklyn. The 1890 Census determined that Brooklyn was actually the fourth-largest city in the United States at the time.
Jul 30, 2020 · Before Brooklyn became a New York City borough home to 2.6 million people and countless hipster coffee shops, it was better known as Breuckelen, an early 17th-century Dutch settlement...
