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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 ...
Pocket doors and pressed tin ceilings were brought back to their former glory. " When you buy a home from the late 1800s a lot of what you're paying for are these details which are irreplaceable.
[3] [4] It was a lookout point for Continental Army troops defending the Heights of Guan in 1776. The Battle of Long Island (sometimes called Battle of Brooklyn) was fought nearby. [1] Mount Prospect Park is designated by the NYC Department of Parks as a site of historical significance and is part of the Historical Signs Project.
Surgeon's House, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Flushing Avenue opposite Ryerson Avenue November 9, 1976 [247] Thomson Meter Company Building (New York Eskimo Pie Corporation Building) (100-110 Bridge Street) 40°42′4″N 73°59′6″W / 40.70111°N 73.98500°W / 40.70111; -73
180-year-old locomotive could be buried under Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn
The Battle Pass area from the 1776 Battle of Brooklyn in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), an etching circa 1792. Approximately 17,000 years ago, the terminal moraine of the receding Wisconsin Glacier that formed Long Island, known as the Harbor Hill Moraine, established a string of hills and kettles in the northern part of the park and a lower lying outwash plain in the southern part.
The Old Stone House is a house located in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Old Stone House is situated within the J. J. Byrne Playground, at Washington Park , on Third Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues.
The Brooklyn Heights Historic District is a historic district that comprises much of the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, United States.It was named a National Historic Landmark in January, 1965, [2] designated a New York City Landmark in November, 1965, [3] and added to the National Register of Historic Places in October, 1966.