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English: General-content map of the present-day borough of Brooklyn (Kings County, New York City) and Queens County before the detachment of its eastern portion in 1898 to form Nassau County. Shows incorporated cities, towns (townships), roads, rural buildings, and rural householders' names; shows street system in urban areas.
1859 Map of Kings and Queens Counties, pre-consolidation, when the City of Brooklyn had already annexed Williamsburg and Bushwick, and Long Island City had not yet incorporated [78 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maps of Long Island published in 1873 by Beers, Comstock & Cline .
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 ...
It is located in the city's Cemetery Belt, bisected by the border between Brooklyn and Queens. It is a rural cemetery in style, and was started in 1851 by three Manhattan Jewish congregations: Congregation Shearith Israel (Spanish Portuguese) on West 70th Street, B'nai Jeshurun on West 89th Street, and Temple Shaaray Tefila on East 79th Street.
City of Brooklyn, the entire town of Brooklyn became a city in 1834. [9] Town of Bushwick - founded as "Boswijck" in 1661, annexed to Brooklyn in 1854; Town of Flatbush - founded as "Midwout" in 1652; was county seat of Kings County; annexed to Brooklyn in 1894; Town of Flatlands - founded as "Nieuw Amersfoort" in 1647; annexed to Brooklyn in 1896
Location of Brooklyn (red) within New York City (remainder yellow) USGS map of Brooklyn (2019) Brooklyn is 97 square miles (250 km 2) in area, of which 71 square miles (180 km 2) is land (73%), and 26 square miles (67 km 2) is water (27%); the borough is the second-largest by land area among the New York City's boroughs.
The first map to extensively depict New York City's transit lines is a United States Geological Survey map of southern Brooklyn drafted in 1888. The first subway focused map was published in 1904-1905 when several maps were published alongside the opening of the IRT subway. [11]
These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn. The towns were, clockwise from the north: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the middle.