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The Center for Brooklyn History was founded in 1863 by Henry Pierrepont (1808–1888) [6] as the Long Island Historical Society, with a charter from the New England Historical Society in Boston. [7] In 1985, the society changed its name to the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS).
Contact us; Contribute Help; ... ZIP code: 06234, 06239. Area code(s) 860/959: ... The town historical society operates the Brooklyn Historical Society Museum, which ...
The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Brooklyn. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, which coincides with Kings County, New York. The locations of National Register properties ...
Brooklyn Heights is part of Brooklyn Community District 2, and its primary ZIP Code is 11201. [1] It is patrolled by the 84th Precinct of the New York City Police Department . [ 8 ] The New York City Fire Department operates two fire stations near Brooklyn Heights: Engine Company 205/Ladder Company 118 at 74 Middagh Street, and Engine Company ...
The Brooklyn Historic Railway Association (BHRA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a shop, trolley barn and offices located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, on the historic Beard Street Piers (c. 1870).
This street ran perpendicular to 86th Street and some 130 feet (40 m) west of 11th Avenue and it was demapped when the park was expanded northward in the 1930s. Both the Dyker Heights Civic Association and the Dyker Heights Historical Society were instrumental in the naming of the street after General Rene E. De Russy. It was redesignated in ...
The collection contained media relating to Brooklyn's history, including photos, books, and a full archive of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. [322] After the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) merged with the BPL in 2020 to form the Center for Brooklyn History, the Brooklyn collection was relocated to the BHS's building in Brooklyn Heights. [323] [324]
St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church (Brooklyn) St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Brooklyn) St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Brooklyn) Senator Street Historic District; South Bushwick Reformed Church; State Street Houses; Stoothoff–Baxter–Kouwenhaven House; Storehouse No. 2, U.S. Navy Fleet Supply Base; Substation 401