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Brooklyn Botanic Garden founded. Population: 1,634.351. [3] 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 ...
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in Brooklyn in 1869 and had a manufacturing plant in the borough for many years that employed thousands of workers, but the plant shut down in 2008. However, new light-manufacturing concerns in packaging organic and high-end food have sprung up in the old plant.
Many blacks left the city and moved to Brooklyn. After the Civil War, the rate of immigration from Europe grew steeply, and New York became the first stop for millions seeking a new and better life in the United States, a role acknowledged by the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in 1886. King's Color-graphs of New York City (1910)
Sbarro opens the first store Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. 1957 January 21: George Metesky, a.k.a. the "Mad Bomber" is arrested in his Waterbury, Connecticut home. [110] February 1: Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashes on Rikers Island on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing 20 of the 101 on board. September 26: Premiere of musical West Side Story.
The center's Romanesque Revival building, located at Pierrepont and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights, was designed by George B. Post and built in 1878–1881 by David H. King Jr., [5] is a National Historic Landmark and part of New York City's Brooklyn Heights Historic District. The CBH houses materials relating to the history of Brooklyn ...
National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn (4 C, 144 P) New York State Register of Historic Places in Kings County (2 P) Pages in category "History of Brooklyn"
Brooklyn (co-extensive with Kings County), on the western tip of Long Island, is the city's most populous borough. Brooklyn is known for its cultural, social, and ethnic diversity, an independent art scene, distinct neighborhoods, and a distinctive architectural heritage. Downtown Brooklyn is the largest central core neighborhood in the outer ...
New York City had been founded in the 1620s by the Dutch as New Amsterdam at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan.The English conquered the territory and established the original twelve counties of the province of New York in 1683; one of these was the City and County of New York.