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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 ...
David A. Boody: Democratic 1892 1893 ... The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in Brooklyn in 1869 and had a manufacturing plant in the borough for many years ...
Boody died in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, on January 20, 1930 (age 92 years, 160 days). He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. David A. Boody Junior High School is named after him in Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn named a fireboat after Boody in 1892. [3] The Brooklyn Fire Department and the FDNY operated her until 1914
Brooklyn had been chartered by the Dutch in 1646; the Town of Brooklyn was one of the towns incorporated by 1691 [8] and reestablished in 1788. [10] It was located within Kings County, [8] another county established by the English in 1683. It was incorporated as a village in 1814 and as a city in 1834.
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 ...
CEO of Verizon Media Guru Gowrappan speaks onstage during The 2020 MAKERS Conference at the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown in February 2020.
1775 – Bowne & Co. printers, founded by descendants of John Bowne of the Flushing Remonstrance, established at 39 Pearl Street. Until 2010 it was the oldest publicly traded company in the United States. 1776 David Mathews becomes the city's 43rd mayor, getting arrested in June 22 for a plot to kill George Washington.
Dinkins, David N. A Mayor's Life: Governing New York's Gorgeous Mosaic (PublicAffairs Books, 2013) Gellman, David N. and David Quigley, eds. Jim Crow New York: A Documentary History of Race and Citizenship, 1777–1877 (2003) Jackson, Kenneth T. and David S. Dunbar, eds. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries 1015 pages of excerpts online