Timeline of Brooklyn explained
This is a timeline and chronology of the history of Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's boroughs, and was settled in 1646.
17th century
18th century
- 1700 – New Utrecht Reformed Church built.[4]
- 1744 – Joost Van Nuyse House, original section was built in 1744 and enlarged between 1793 and 1806. It was moved to its present site in 1925. It is a -story frame house with a steeply pitched flared roof.[5] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
- 1766 – Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead is believed to have been built before 1766. During the American Revolution, it housed Hessian soldiers for the British Army. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.[6]
- 1776
- 1780 – Fort Brooklyn constructed in Brooklyn Heights area along east bank of the East River by the British Army, then occupying New York Town and Manhattan, near Fort Stirling (named for Patriot general, also called "Lord Stirling"). Later razed for housing development by 1823–1825.[8]
- 1783 – "Evacuation Day", November 25, British forces leave New York and Manhattan under terms of Treaty of Paris after occupation of seven years. Gen. George Washington and his officers of the Continental Army take control.
- 1786 – Erasmus Hall High School – oldest public high school in the city, founded as Erasmus Hall Academy, a private school. Later joined by free academy in the 1840s as the first public high school, which later becomes City College of New York.[9] Wooden schoolhouse[10] was opened in 1787. Later wings were added and removed.
- 1788 – New York State debates and ratifies the new Constitution to replace the previous Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union.
- 1790 – Small population recorded for the villages of Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights on the western end of Long Island in the first decennial United States Census of 1790.
- 1797 – Population: 1,603 recorded in newly published reference book The American Gazetteer.[11]
19th century
1800s
1810s
1820s
- 1820 – is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Missions include suppressing the slave trade off the coast of west Africa.
- 1823 – Brooklyn Apprentices' Library Association formed.[18] ** After the occupying British evacuation, Fort Brooklyn was leveled between 1823 and 1825 for development.
- 1827 – James Street Market built.[19]
- 1828 – New Utrecht Reformed Church established and is the fourth oldest church in Brooklyn. In 1828, The present church was built in 1828 of stones taken from the original church, built in 1700.
- 1829 – Coney Island House opens.[20]
1830s
- 1830
- 1833
- 1834
- Village of Brooklyn, and now growing town, is incorporated as a city.
- Old First Reformed Church built.
- George Hall is elected as the First Mayor of the new City of Brooklyn and served just one year, 1834.
- Population 23,310.
- 1835
- Jonathan Trotter is elected the second Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1835 to 1836.
- The Brooklyn Lyceum, later the Brooklyn Institute, is built at the intersection of Washington Street and Concord Streets.[23]
- 1837
- The 9-gun, side-wheel steamer (Fulton II) is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and is the first U.S. Navy steam-powered warship assigned to sea duty.
- Jeremiah Johnson is elected the third Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1837 to 1838.
- 1838
- Green-Wood Cemetery established.[24]
- James Weeks, an African-American freedman from Virginia, buys the land which marks the beginning of Weeksville, which grows to be the largest independent Negro town in the nation before the Civil War
- 1839 – Cyrus P. Smith is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1839 to 1841.
1840s
- 1840
- 1841
- 1843
- The Brooklyn Institute formed.
- Joseph Sprague is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1843 to 1844.
- 1844 – Bridge Street Methodist Church of the Bridge Street Methodist Church built.
- 1845
- 1846 – Francis B. Stryker is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and served from 1846 to 1848.
- 1847
- 1848
- 1849
1850s
- 1850
- Plymouth Church built.
- Brooklyn Law Library founded.
- An area later designated as the Greenpoint Historic District was built up between 1850 and 1900.[34] & is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Samuel Smith is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn and just served one year, 1850.
- Population: 138,882.
- 1851
- Conklin Brush is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1851 to 1852.
- 1852
- 1853
- Brooklyn Branch of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) established, later part of YMCA of Greater New York.
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn established.[37]
- Edward A. Lambert is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1853 to 1854.
- Brooklyn, Baltimore, named specifically after the New York town, established in Maryland. Later cities and towns adopt "Brooklyn" name, or "Brooklyn Park", "Brooklyn Heights", "Brooklyn Center", and "New Brooklyn" in Ohio, Minnesota, etc.
- 1854
- 1855
- 1857
- 1858
- 1859
1860s
1870s
- 1870
- 1873
- Samuel S. Powell is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1872 to 1873.
- 1874
- 1875
- 1876
- 1878
- Brighton Beach Line begins operating.
- Brighton Beach Hotel opens.
- James Howell is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1878 to 1881.
- 1879
1880s
- 1880
- 1881 - The Grand Opera House gives its inaugural performance on November 14, 1881.[52]
- 1883
- 1884
- 1885 – Brooklyn Elevated Railroad begins operating.
- 1886
- 1887
- 1888
- 1889
- Elliott Buckmaster (1889–1976) – military person; U.S. Navy officer; naval aviator during World War I and World War II was born in Brooklyn.
- Brooklyn Society of Amateur Photographers organized.
- Montauk Club established.
1890s
- 1890
- 1891
- 1892
- 1893
- 1894
- 1895
- The Brooklyn Museum founded in a building of, planned to be the largest art museum in the world.
- Brooklyn trolley strike disrupts commerce; National Guard keeps order.[69]
- 1896
- 1898 – (1 January) City of Brooklyn becomes one of five boroughs (Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island), of the new reorganized City of Greater New York, with a new municipal charter after a long controversy, debate and campaign through the 1890s. Consolidation was opposed by the city's main daily newspaper, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- 1899
- Grace Methodist Episcopal Church built, (later becomes Bay Ridge United Methodist Church).
- Christ English Evangelical Lutheran Church built in Romanesque Revival architectural style on Lafayette Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Later becomes Rugged Cross Baptist Church and placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
- 1920s and early 1930s Chicago gangster and liquor smuggler against Prohibition of the 18th Amendment, Al Capone is born in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
- Prospect Park South begins construction, exclusively for large and expensive houses.[71]
- Saitta House, a two-and-a-half-story, one-family, Queen Anne style of architecture of English-type timbered and stucco dwelling construction on 84th Street, between 11th and 12th Streets, in Dyker Heights, completed ca. 1899 by architect John J. Petit and builder P.J. la Note for Simone and Beatrice Saitta (pronounced: sigh-eat-a).[72] [73]
- Al Capone is born in Brooklyn to Italian immigrants and was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era.
- Walter Berndt (November 22, 1899Brooklyn, New York was a cartoonist known for his long-run comic strip, Smitty, which he drew for 50 years.
- 1900 - Population: 1,166,582.
20th century
1900s
1910s
- 1910
- 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 built.
- 1915
- Launched at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sunk on Sunday, December 7, 1941, in the Pearl Harbor attack.
- Austin, Nichols and Company Warehouse, designed by Cass Gilbert, using reinforced concrete on a huge scale.[91] It is now a listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is currently used as an apartment building.
- Eli Wallach,[92] actor, was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, at 156 Union St..
- 1916
- 1917
- 1918
1920s
- 1920 – Temple Beth El of Borough Park, now known as "Young Israel Beth El" of Borough Park, is a historic synagogue in Borough Park, Brooklyn and was built between 1920 and 1923.[102]
- 1921
- 1922 - Brooklyn Tech opens.
- 1924
- 1925
- 1926
- Born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is actor, director and producer and live stage performances comedian Mel Brooks, who occasionally starred in his own produced features.[110] – actor, comedian, film director, film producer and screenwriter.
- East Midwood Jewish Center, a Conservative synagogue located at 1625 Ocean Avenue, Midwood section of Brooklyn, construction started in 1926 and was finished in 1929 in the Renaissance revival style of architecture.
- 1927
- 1928
- 1929 – Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower was built. At the time of construction, it was the tallest office building in Brooklyn, at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues.
1930s
- 1933
- 1935
- Sandy Koufax – baseball player is born in (Borough Park), Brooklyn. A left-handed pitcher, he played his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1955 to 1966. Youngest player ever elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.[117]
- Woody Allen – Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician whose career spans over 50 years is born in Brooklyn
- United States Post Office (Kensington, Brooklyn), historic brick post office building in the Colonial Revival style. For much of its history it was painted white. NRHP.[118]
- Prospect Park Zoo opened.
- 1936
- United States Post Office, a two-story, flat roofed red brick building with a one-story rear wing in the Colonial Revival style.[119]
- United States Post Office, opened as Station "A", historic post office building at Williamsburg in Brooklyn, in the Colonial Revival style. NRHP[120]
- United States Post Office (Flatbush, Brooklyn) a historic post office building, a symmetrical, two-story, red brick building with a gable roof and a large one-story rear wing.[121]
- Louis Gossett Jr.Born: May 27, 1936, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn and a lifetime fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers[122]
- The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences merges with the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
1940s
- Richie Havens born in Brooklyn, January 21, 1941, singer.[124] [125]
- 1941–1945, At its peak, during World War II, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed 70,000 people, 24 hours a day.
- 1947
- Arlo Guthrie, born in Coney Island, Brooklyn, singer.
- Larry David (born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, July 2, 1947), comedian, writer, actor, and television producer.[137]
- 1949
1950s
- 1950 – Streetcar service discontinued on Brooklyn Bridge and other bridges.
- 1951 – Tony Danza born April 21, 1951, Comedic actor in television.[141] [142] [143]
- 1953 – Academy Award winner Ken Burns born. (born July 29, 1953)[144]
- 1954 – Jerry Seinfeld, (born April 29, 1954, in Brooklyn)[145]), American comedian, actor, director, writer, and producer and famous for Seinfeld.
- 1955 – Brooklyn Eagle daily newspaper in the borough since 1841, ceases publication after 114 years following labor strike.
- 1956 – 1956 Bush Terminal explosion, Sunset Park
- 1957
- 1959 - Vincent D'Onofrio born on June 30.[159] Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer.[160]
1960s
- 1961
- Actor, comedian, and writer Charlie Murphy is born in Brooklyn.[161] Charlie is also known for his work with his younger brother Eddie Murphy.
- Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in operation.
- Eddie Murphy is born in Brooklyn.[162] [163] A comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician.[164] [165] [166] He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984 and has worked as a stand-up comedian.
- 1963
- 1964 - Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens November 21, providing a gateway to suburban-style living for thousands of Italian-American Brooklynites.
- 1965
- 1966
- 1967 – Wyckoff House was declared a National Historic Landmark.[168] The house is estimated to have been built in 1652, it is the oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America, and was one of the first structures built by Europeans on Long Island.
- 1969
1970s
- 1970 – John Rankin House (Brooklyn, New York) – one of the finest Greek Revival houses in the city was designated a New York City landmark.
- 1971 – The French Connection is filmed in Brooklyn and is an American dramatic thriller film about crime, detectives, and the increasing worldwide nature of drug smuggling.
- 1972
- The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York), founded in 1972, A.R.T./New York serves nearly 400 not-for-profit theatres throughout New York City. Its South Oxford Space in the Cultural District houses twenty-one performing arts organizations.
- Flatbush Town Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- "Bang on a Can" founded as a twelve-hour music festival, later much expanded.
- 1973 – State Street Houses were designated New York City landmarks, built between 1847 and 1874 in the Boerum Hill neighborhood.
- 1974
- 1975 - The movie Dog Day Afternoon, set and filmed in Brooklyn starring Al Pacino, is released.
- 1976
- 1977
- Saturday Night Fever, a musical film, starring John Travolta, in his break-out major role, is filmed in Brooklyn. Famous also for using the disco music soundtrack by The Beegees.
- 23rd Regiment Armory was designated a New York City landmark.
- Horror film The Sentinet, filmed in Brooklyn Heights, is released January 7.
- 1978 – John Rankin House (Brooklyn, New York) – one of the finest Greek Revival houses in the city was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
1980s
- 1980
- 1982
- 1983
- Astral Apartments (1885–1886) are designated a City Landmark.
- Brooklyn Army Terminal (built in 1918 for World War I) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing includes 11 contributing buildings on an area of .[186]
- Carroll Gardens Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Placesc and consists of 134 contributing residential rowhouses built between the 1860s and 1880s. They are two and three-story brownstone buildings in neo-Grec and late Italianate styles featuring uniform setbacks, even cornice lines and stoop levels, and fenced front yards and landscaped gardens.[187]
- Cypress Avenue West Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and includes 440 contributing buildings built between 1888 and 1906. They consist mainly of brick two and three-story row houses with one apartment per floor and three-story tenements with two apartments per floor.
- Boerum Hill Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and consists of 238 contributing residential rowhouses and a few commercial buildings built between 1845 and 1890. Most are three bay, three-story brick buildings with projecting stoops in a Greek Revival or Italianate style.
- Ditmas Park Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and consists of 172 contributing, largely residential buildings built between 1902 and 1914. It includes fine examples of Colonial Revival, Bungalow/Craftsman, and Queen Anne style single family homes. Also in the district is one church, the brick Neo-Georgian style architecture of Flatbush Congregational Church (1910).
- Fort Greene Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, built between 1840 and 1890. Most are faced in sandstone and exhibit characteristics of the Greek Revival, Italianate, Second Empire, and Neo-Greco styles. It includes a 33-acre park designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1868.
- Greenpoint Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, consisting of 363 contributing commercial and residential buildings built between 1850 and 1900, including both substantial and modest row houses, numerous walk-up apartment buildings, as well as a variety of commercial buildings including the former Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory, six churches, and two banks.
- Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. and consists of 16 contributing buildings built between 1891 and 1928. The largest and oldest building (Building 1 and 2) dates to 1891 and is located at the corner of Washington and Park avenues. It is a five-story, Romanesque Revival style building. Much of the complex has been converted to loft apartments.
- 1984
- Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 Italian epic crime drama film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. It chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organized crime. Once Upon a Time in America was filmed in Brooklyn.
- Weir Greenhouse, is a historic greenhouse located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1880 and significantly rebuilt and enlarged in 1895.
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987 – The movie Radio Days is filmed in Brooklyn and is directed by Woody Allen and is a movie that takes a look back on an American family's life during the Golden Age of Radio using both music and memories to tell the story.
- 1988 – 651 ARTS was founded and is committed to developing, producing, and presenting performing arts and cultural programming grounded in the African Diaspora, with a primary focus on contemporary performing arts. 651 ARTS serves the cultural life of New York City, with a particular focus on Brooklyn, one of America's most culturally diverse communities.
- 1989 - The movie Do the Right Thing, focused on racial tensions set in Bedford-Stuyvesant, was released. The movie has been named one of the best films of all time and is enshrined in the Library of Congress.
1990s
21st century
2000s
- 2000 – DUMBO Industrial District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district includes the earliest large-scale reinforced concrete factory buildings in America.[190]
- 2001 – Brooklyn Cyclones – The team's new park, which was then called KeySpan Park, was completed in time for the 2001 season. Brooklyn had been without professional baseball since 1958.[191]
- 2002
- A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Governor George Pataki and Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2002 that created Brooklyn Bridge Park.[192]
- The movie Deuces Wild is filmed in Brooklyn & is set in 1958 and Martin Scorsese was the executive producer.
- Senator Street Historic District buildings built between 1906 and 1912. They are all three-story brownstone rowhouses in the Neo-Renaissance style. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 2003
- 2004
- Renovation of the 80 Arts – James E. Davis Arts Building, completed in Summer 2004, becoming the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District's first completed project.
- Steiner Studios Opens at the site of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The 310,000-square-foot facility is the largest and most sophisticated studio complex outside of Hollywood, offering five soundstages and state-of-the-art film and television production facilities. Steiner Studios
- 2006
- 2007
- East River State Park opens on May 26[199]
- Construction starts at Northside Piers, a 29-story – 180-unit building of luxury condominium tower in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
- Opening of a 400-foot-long recreation pier with the city's finest waterfront sculpture, a dramatic, stainless-steel, curving canopy designed by Brooklyn artist, Mark Gibian and located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
- Steiner Studios was the location of the 17th annual Gotham Awards held on November 27, 2007.[200]
- We Own the Night is filmed in Brooklyn, American crime drama film written and directed by James Gray.
- Brooklyn Ink in publication.[201]
- 2008
- One Brooklyn Bridge Park, a building that converted 1,000,000+ square foot warehouse building located along Furman Street just south of Joralemon Street with over 400 residential units with 80,000 square feet of ground floor retail, and over 500 parking spaces.
- April 2008, Brooklyn Flea opens.
- 2009
2010s
- 2010
- 2011
- In October, it was announced that Douglaston Development, which built the Edge, the adjoining property just to the north of Northside Piers, would build a 40-story rental tower on a site within the Northside Pier complex with construction scheduled to bring in March 2012.
- The Brooklyn Flea opened the Williamsburg location.
- Brooklyn Academy of Music celebrates ¡Sí Cuba!, a citywide festival of Cuban culture, with the BAM presentations of Creole Choir and Ballet Nacional de Cuba.
- 2012
- The Brooklyn Flea opened the DUMBO location at the historic Tobacco Warehouse.
- In March 2012, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled five new sound stages (a total of) at Steiner Studios.[208] The new sound stages all feature two or three wall cycloramas.[209]
- On February 2, 2012, the Weir Greenhouse was purchased by the neighboring Green-Wood Cemetery, which plans to preserve the greenhouse and restore elements which have decayed in recent years.[210]
- In December 2012, the city approved 50,000 square feet of new creative, cultural, and community space at the "South Site" located at Flatbush Avenue and Lafayette Street.
- In October, the $637 million Barclays Center, where the Brooklyn Nets play, opened.[211] [212] [213]
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- In January the movie Brooklyn, filmed in part in Coney Island.
- Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2016 headquartered in Brooklyn.
- The landmarks commission designated a 16-block area bounded by Gates Avenue, Fulton Street, Bedford Avenue and Tompkins Avenue as the Bedford Historic District.[223] The 800 largely intact residential buildings represent various styles.
- 2017
- The first of two replacement spans for the Kosciuszko Bridge open.[224]
2020s
- 2022 - January 1: Antonio Reynoso becomes the 20th Brooklyn Borough President.
See also
- other NYC boroughs:
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