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Until the late 19th century, Bay Ridge would remain a relatively isolated rural area, [21]: 4 reached primarily by stagecoaches, then by steam trolleys after 1878. [23]: 15 In 1892, the first electric trolley line was built in Brooklyn, starting at a ferry terminal at 39th Street and running via Second Avenue to 65th Street, and then via Third Avenue.
Bay Ridge United Methodist Church: September 9, 1999 7002 Fourth St. Bay Ridge ... Brooklyn Historical Society. July 17, 1991 : 128 Pierrepont St. Brooklyn Heights ...
The Harbor Defense Museum, sometimes called The Caponier, located within the grounds of Fort Hamilton in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn is a 19th-century fort, New York City's only military museum and one of only seventy military museums in the United States that is funded and operated by the Defense Department.
Fort Lafayette was an island coastal fortification in The Narrows of New York Harbor (New York Bay), built offshore from nearby Fort Hamilton at the southern tip of what is now the Bay Ridge neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn at the western end of Long Island. The fort was built on a natural off-shore island shoal, known as ...
A big grade-elimination project was started on the Bay Ridge Branch in 1906 and was completed by 1915. [82] Later electrification included the Montauk Division from Jamaica out to Babylon in 1925 [128] and the Bay Ridge Branch (for New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad freight off the 1916 Hell Gate Bridge) in 1927. [129]
Bay Ridge United Church. Bay Ridge United Church (BRUC) was located on Bay Ridge Parkway (636) in the Bay Ridge Section of Brooklyn, New York.The congregation was a blend of two churches from two similar but different denominations and was a member of both the Reformed Church in America [1] and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
Historic Street Lampposts, Bay Ridge June 17, 1997: Hubbard House, 2138 McDonald Ave. January 13, 2009: Peter P. and Rosa M. Huberty House, 1019 Bushwick Avenue October 24, 2017: Houses on Hunterfly Road, 1698–1708 (even) Bergen Street: August 18, 1970
Fort Hamilton is a United States Army installation in the southwestern corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, surrounded by the communities of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. It is one of several posts that are part of the region which is headquartered by the Military District of Washington.