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Justice, decided to test McKane's methods by dispatching more than 20 Republican observers to examine the
Gravesend voter registries and oversee the voting in all six districts of the town, as he was entitled to do by law. However, when the observers reached Gravesend town hall at dawn on election day, McKane, along with a large group of policemen and cronies, confronted them. When the observers balked and produced injunctions from the Brooklyn Supreme Court, McKane supposedly declared "injunctions don't go here" and ordered the men away. A scuffle ensued and five of the observers were beaten and arrested. This event raised great outrage. Early in the following year, McKane was tried, convicted, and sentenced to six years in
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1468:, West Gravesend showed there were between 20,000 and 29,999 white residents and 26,700 Asian residents showing both their populations to be almost equivalent and there were between 5,000 and 9,999 Hispanic residents. South Gravesend has between 10,000 and 19,999 white residents and has between 5,000 and 9,999 Asian residents, but showed each the Hispanic and Black populations to be under 5000 residents. East Gravesend overlapping to
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1025:) running from north to south, and Gravesend Neck Road, running from east to west. These roads divided the town into four quadrants, which were subdivided into ten plots of land each. This grid of the original town can still be seen on maps and aerial photographs of the area. At the center of town, where the two main roads met, a town hall was constructed where town meetings were held once a month.
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2691:, February 4, 1991. Accessed April 15, 2024."A year ago, Franco, a star at Lafayette High School and then St. John's before going on to become one of the most perplexing and thus feared relievers in the game as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, had to request a police guard at his door in Gravesend to ward off random revelers in the announcement that he had been traded to the Mets."
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1231:. The BBR consisted of a single-wheeled engine that hauled two double-decker passenger cars along a single track; a second rail above the train, supported by wooden arches, kept it from tipping over. The engine and cars were four feet wide and were capable of speeds far greater than the much bulkier standard trains. In 1889, the BBR began running a short route between the
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generally low in
Gravesend, except for Marlboro Houses, where illegal drugs contributed to higher crime rates than in the rest of the neighborhood. On December 25, 1987, white youths beat two black men in the neighborhood in an apparent "unprovoked attack." In January 1988, to protest the specific attack and the general climate of racial violence, Reverend
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415:) in the Netherlands, which means "Count's Beach" or "Count's Sand". A 1656 map of Nova Belgica confirms this, by mentioning the names of Dutch towns like Vlissingen (Flushing), Breukelen (Brooklyn), Amersfoort (Flatlands), Heemstee (Hempstead, Heemstede which means homestead) and Gravesant ('s-Gravenzande).
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beliefs, accused of spreading religious dissent in the
Puritan colony. Kieft was recruiting settlers to secure this land that his forces had taken from the Lenape. Some clashes continued, and the town organization was not completed until 1645. The signed town charter and grant was one of the first to
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carpenter and contractor, he gained a variety of elected and appointed positions: as
Gravesend town supervisor, chief of police, chief of detectives, fire commissioner, schools commissioner, public lands commissioner, superintendent of the Sheepshead Bay Methodist Church, head tenor of the church
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Gravesend's earliest
European settlers were predominantly English and Dutch. Slavery was legal in the colony, and many settlers had enslaved African Americans as workers until after the American Revolution, when New York gradually abolished the institution. African Americans continued to work and
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McKane became a
Democratic Party ward boss and had loose standards on who was allowed to vote: immigrants, dead people, seasonal migrant workers, and criminals. Voting records show many specious entries. On the eve of the 1893 election, William Gaynor, a lawyer running for Brooklyn Supreme Court
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White Sands' name is derived from the white sand which formerly covered the shore and the mouth of Coney Island Creek. The first houses to be built in the neighborhood were bungalows that were raised on stilts above the sand, but as development slowly progressed, much of the sand was removed and
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Although Coney Island continued to be a major tourist attraction throughout the 20th century, the closing of
Gravesend's great racetracks in the century's first decade resulted in the rest of the old town fading into obscurity. Most of it was developed as a working and middle-class residential
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and her followers left in
England, as you stated in your article about the community on Oct. 18, but by the Dutch governor-general, William Kieft. Kieft chose to name the settlement " 's'Gravesande" after the town in Holland that had been the seat of the Counts of Holland before they moved to
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was beaten to death in
Gravesend by a group of white teenagers. The relationship between the predominantly African-American and more poor population of the Marlboro Houses and the predominantly white surrounding neighborhoods continued to be tense through much of the 1980s. By 1986, crime was
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stop of the Sea Beach
Railroad (near the intersection of 86th and West Seventh Streets) and Brighton Beach in Coney Island, a distance of just over a mile. Despite the smooth and speedy ride, the BBR ultimately failed and the test route fell into disuse, as did the Boynton train and its shed.
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ever be awarded to a woman in the New World. John Tilton became the first town clerk of Gravesend and owned part of what later would become Coney Island. Moody, the Tiltons, and other early English settlers were known to have paid the Lenape for their land. Another prominent early settler was
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Beginning in the 1990s, the northeast section of the neighborhood was redeveloped with larger, upscale single-family homes, whose prices reached $ 1 million. This dramatically changed the composition of part of the neighborhood. In addition, some two-family homes were being converted back to
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The neighborhood center is still the four blocks bounded by Village Road South, Village Road East, Village Road North, and Van Sicklen Street, where the Moody House and Van Sicklen family cemetery are located. Next to, and parallel with the van Sicklen Family Cemetery is the
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along the shore of Gravesend Bay. It was one of the earliest planned communities in America. It consisted of a 16-acre (6.5 ha) square surrounded by a 20-foot-high wooden palisade. The town was bisected by two main roads, Gravesend Road (now
1272:, located between Avenues V and X from Stillwell Avenue to the Gravesend subway yards. Gradually this housing became occupied predominantly by African Americans. On the other hand, the area in the northeast part of Gravesend, bound by
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granted her and a group of English settlers a land patent on December 19, 1645. Moody, along with John Tilton and wife Mary Pearsall Tilton, came to Gravesend after choosing excommunication, following religious persecution in
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The name "Gravesend" was given to the area by New Amsterdam's Dutch authorities. Local sources think that the name probably comes from Dutch words, which when combined can mean "groves end" or "Count's beach".
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showed a higher proportion of white residents of between 30,000 and 39,999 with Hispanic residents of between 5,000 and 9,999 and as well as Asian residents of between 5,000 and 9,999. The affordable housing
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In August 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, Gravesend Bay was the landing site of thousands of British soldiers and German mercenaries from their staging area on Staten Island, leading to the
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and Shore Parkway. By 2000, Home Depot had acquired about two-thirds of the properties in White Sands, and by 2002, the acquired properties had been razed and replaced by a new Home Depot location.
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then headquartered in New York City (at the time limited to the tip of Manhattan Island). The battle, in addition to being the first, would prove to be the largest fought in the entire war.
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led 450 marchers between Marlboro Houses and a police station, and were met with chants of "go back to Africa" and various racial epithets from a predominantly white crowd.
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holds a significant concentrated community of Black residents even though some Asian and Hispanic residents also live within the housing development as well.
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for such corruption. He was released near the end of the century and died of a stroke in his Sheepshead Bay home in 1899.
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choir, and Santa Claus at the annual Sabbath school Christmas celebration. From the 1870s to the 1890s, McKane cultivated
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single-family houses. Despite high rates of car thefts, Gravesend's crime rate remained relatively low.
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Manly, Howard (December 29, 1987). "'An Unprovoked Attack': Black brothers tell of beating by whites".
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Lowenstein, Roger (July 25, 1988). "The Mood Gets Nasty in City Neighborhood as Racial Tension Rises".
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football stadium. Of the Italian-American community, Sicilians (especially from
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2138:"National Register of Historic Places Registration:Old Gravesend Cemetery"
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residents, immigrants and their descendants who moved out from Manhattan.
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Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.
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Gravesend is notable as the only colonial town founded by a woman,
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The island and its environs were first inhabited by bands of
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residents of any race were 16.0% (4,716) of the population.
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2613:"Brooklyn Italians Soccer Club | Youth Soccer Academy"
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The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 52.8% (15,535)
2462:"Blacks, to Jeers of Whites, Protest Racism in Brooklyn"
982:. Moody and Mary Tilton had been tried because of their
1901:, Forgotten NY. April 2008. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
2088:. New York: The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 67.
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corridors. The services and lines, respectively, are:
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is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the
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created one of Coney Island’s first amusement parks,
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2014:"Happy 350th Birthday, Bensonhurst! - BKLYNER"
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2683:"Baseball; Hometown Hero With an Arm of Clay"
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2364:"If You're Thinking of Living in; Gravesend"
2050:"If You're Thinking of Living in: Gravesend"
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2757:"Turk is Buried with Odd Ceremonies"
1371:PS 721K Brooklyn Occupational Center
1208:were annexed in 1894 by the city of
3546:Columbia Street Waterfront District
3275:Coney Island Beautification Project
1757:'s 60th, 61st, and 62nd Precincts.
1354:(now Lafayette Educational Complex)
2844:Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park
2732:Gazetteer Of the State of New York
2460:Hevesi, Dennis (January 3, 1988).
2282:"Scientific American 1890 to 1899"
2082:Pelletreau, William Smith (1905).
1389:Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy
1268:, public housing units run by the
750:Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions
337:Gravesend was one of the original
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2617:The Brooklyn Italians Soccer Club
2396:Sokol, Jason (December 5, 2014).
1963:Duffy, Peter (October 10, 1999).
1836:; Manbeck, John B., eds. (2004).
1722:lines operate through Gravesend.
1227:, the earliest forerunner of the
902:replaced with landfill. In 1993,
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2362:Parker, Emil (August 10, 1986).
1386:PS 238 Anne Sullivan (Pre-K - 8)
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3365:Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
3355:Coney Island in popular culture
3219:Jewish Center of Brighton Beach
2740:Gravesend: Home of Coney Island
2254:Brooklyn: Historically Speaking
1865:Letter to the Editor: Gravesend
1755:New York City Police Department
1586:, with 133 votes to just 3 for
1270:New York City Housing Authority
2256:, Charleston, South Carolina:
1753:Gravesend is patrolled by the
306:, on the southwestern edge of
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4308:Former towns in New York City
3324:Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue
3209:Gargiulo's Italian Restaurant
1838:The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn
1598:Gravesend is served by three
1464:In the 2020 census data from
1414:Dahill Road and Kings Highway
3265:Coney Island History Project
1380:Shostakovich School of Music
1288:, saw an influx of affluent
973:. In 1643, governor general
407:for the Dutch settlement of
213:26,000/sq mi (9,900/km)
3706:Pacific Park/Atlantic Yards
3384:Brooklyn Community Board 13
3360:Coney Island Mermaid Parade
3189:Abraham Lincoln High School
2313:September 30, 2012, at the
2228:September 30, 2012, at the
2195:September 16, 2007, at the
2173:September 15, 2007, at the
937:Lady Deborah Moody memorial
378:Brooklyn Community Board 13
374:Brooklyn Community Board 11
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2746:Tombstone For "The Nubian"
2340:"Marlboro Houses at NYCHA"
2326:September 7, 2008, at the
2239:September 7, 2008, at the
2208:September 7, 2008, at the
2184:September 7, 2008, at the
1637: trains on the
1576:2012 presidential election
1574:also reported that in the
1466:NYC Dept. Of City Planning
1374:IS 281 Joseph B. Cavallaro
1153:was credited with this. A
1139:Brighton Beach Race Course
989:Anthony Janszoon van Salee
4328:Sicilian-American culture
4318:Neighborhoods in Brooklyn
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2252:Manbeck, John B. (2008),
2190:Becoming Wards One By One
1420:2010 United States Census
1368:PS 212 Lady Deborah Moody
1131:Sheepshead Bay Race Track
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2599:"ArcGIS Web Application"
2320:The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
2308:Boynton Bicycle Railroad
2234:The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
2202:The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
2179:The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
2168:A New Chapter in History
1805:, Population Division -
1786:, Population Division -
1691:is in the neighborhood.
1689:Coney Island Subway Yard
1545:who play in Gravesend's
1225:Boynton Bicycle Railroad
821:People of New Netherland
47:Neighborhood of Brooklyn
3194:Coney Island Creek Park
2508:Brooklyn Public Library
2432:The Wall Street Journal
1566:. It was among several
1551:Castellammare del Golfo
1418:Based on data from the
1400:Brooklyn Public Library
1365:PS 216 Arturo Toscanini
341:in the Dutch colony of
318:. It is bounded by the
3154:Coney Island Velodrome
2306:(September 10, 1899) "
1934:"Shifting White Sands"
1547:John Dewey High School
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1347:John Dewey High School
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2114:, New York City Parks
1842:Yale University Press
1494:at East 16th Street.
1485:Historic demographics
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3159:Elephantine Colossus
3031:Riegelmann Boardwalk
2782:at Wikimedia Commons
2346:on November 3, 2009.
2288:on February 17, 2012
1916:www.bklynlibrary.org
1740:(born 1960), former
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1600:New York City Subway
1135:Gravesend Race Track
210: • Density
4288:Gravesend, Brooklyn
3736:Prospect Park South
3239:Shore Theater Hotel
2780:Gravesend, Brooklyn
2504:"Gravesend Library"
2223:John Y. McKane Dies
2148:on October 19, 2012
2112:Lady Moody Triangle
2020:. December 22, 2011
1912:"Gravesend Library"
1834:Jackson, Kenneth T.
1667: trains on the
1362:PS 95 The Gravesend
1176:Marlboro Houses, a
1047:Mohammad Ben Misoud
980:Lynn, Massachusetts
550:Fort Nassau (South)
540:Fort Nassau (North)
432:Coney Island Avenue
100: /
18:Gravesend, New York
3716:Park Slope Village
3461:Bedford–Stuyvesant
3199:Coney Island Light
3137:Childs Restaurants
3106:A Trip to the Moon
3079:Switchback Railway
2761:The New York Times
2744:(August 10, 1896)
2688:The New York Times
2650:"Brooklyn Bus Map"
2636:The New York Times
2585:"Brooklyn - NYCHA"
2489:The New York Times
2466:The New York Times
2402:The New York Times
2368:The New York Times
2054:The New York Times
1969:The New York Times
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1875:Lady Deborah Moody
1870:The New York Times
1734:(born 1971), actor
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2778:Media related to
2738:Ierardi, Eric J.
2565:. August 14, 2021
2510:. August 19, 2011
2267:978-1-59629-500-1
2258:The History Press
1613:BMT West End Line
1543:Brooklyn Italians
1492:BMT Brighton Line
1475:NYCHA development
1449:, 0.1% (41) from
1342:Big Apple Academy
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1097:George Washington
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347:Kings County
336:
320:Belt Parkway
292:
291:
276:Area code(s)
29:
4252:(1846–1874)
4246:(1788–1895)
4244:Westchester
4226:Kingsbridge
4220:Eastchester
4203:(1788–1898)
4197:(1788–1898)
4185:(1788–1898)
4179:(1788–1898)
4160:(1652–1898)
4154:(1870–1898)
4148:(1656–1898)
4136:(1645–1898)
4111:(1625–1898)
4091:(1827–1854)
4084:(1657–1894)
4082:New Utrecht
4078:(1852–1886)
4072:(1645–1894)
4066:(1647–1896)
4060:(1652–1894)
4054:(1661–1854)
4048:(1646–1898)
3806:White Sands
3776:Sunset Park
3721:Plumb Beach
3691:New Utrecht
3671:Marine Park
3616:Fort Greene
3561:Ditmas Park
3541:Cobble Hill
3511:Brownsville
3486:Boerum Hill
3466:Bensonhurst
3224:Kaiser Park
3142:Surf Avenue
3099:Other rides
3086:(1925–1982)
3084:Thunderbolt
2968:Other rides
2952:Thunderbolt
2948:The Tickler
2897:(1897–1964)
2891:(1895–1903)
2867:(1962–2008)
2706:www.nyc.gov
2667:December 1,
2569:November 7,
2543:November 7,
2292:January 21,
2018:bklyner.com
1738:John Franco
1681:86th Street
1617:25th Avenue
1584:Mitt Romney
1582:carried by
1531:West Indies
1451:other races
1445:, 0.0% (1)
1310:Al Sharpton
1294:Syrian Jews
1240:Later years
721:Swaanendael
671:Colen Donck
600:Settlements
570:Fort Altena
545:Fort Orange
517:Exploration
494:White Sands
488:White Sands
452:Bensonhurst
324:Bay Parkway
308:Long Island
107: /
60:Looking at
4282:Categories
4250:West Farms
4232:Morrisania
4195:Southfield
4189:Middletown
4183:Northfield
4115:New Harlem
3796:Weeksville
3711:Park Slope
3696:Ocean Hill
3681:Mill Basin
3656:Kensington
3641:Greenpoint
3451:Bath Beach
2980:Ghost Hole
1822:. nyc.gov.
1761:References
1541:team, the
1062:Dissenters
1008:salt marsh
984:Anabaptist
904:Home Depot
835:Twelve Men
731:Nieuw Dorp
696:Breuckelen
691:Gravesende
666:Oude Dorpe
661:Vlissingen
656:Achter Col
631:Beverwijck
590:De Rondout
500:location.
498:Home Depot
456:Bath Beach
197:Population
95:73°58′16″W
92:40°35′53″N
4234:(1855–74)
4228:(1873–74)
4212:The Bronx
4201:Westfield
4191:(1860–98)
4177:Castleton
4140:Hempstead
4117:(1658–66)
4100:Manhattan
4070:Gravesend
4064:Flatlands
3791:Wallabout
3686:Navy Yard
3651:Homecrest
3636:Gravesend
3611:Flatlands
3531:Chinatown
3456:Bay Ridge
3381:See also:
3244:Totonno's
3182:Community
3147:Boardwalk
3026:Quester I
2960:Starflyer
2885:(1903–44)
2883:Luna Park
2877:Dreamland
2873:(1904–11)
2871:Dreamland
2865:Astroland
2849:Luna Park
2410:0362-4331
2376:0362-4331
2188:Page 4; "
2062:0362-4331
2024:August 3,
1998:Gravesend
1880:the Hague
1634:<F>
1556:In 2008,
1527:Ukrainian
1470:Homecrest
1320:Education
1233:Gravesend
1199:Sing Sing
1167:constable
955:Half Moon
840:Eight Men
812:(1647–64)
804:(1638–47)
796:(1633–38)
788:(1632–33)
780:(1626–32)
772:(1625–26)
764:(1620–25)
681:Heemstede
676:Greenwich
444:Homecrest
426:Geography
369:in 1894.
314:state of
293:Gravesend
218:Ethnicity
39:Gravesend
4134:Flushing
4109:New York
4107:City of
4087:City of
4076:New Lots
4058:Flatbush
4052:Bushwick
4046:Brooklyn
4044:City of
4037:Brooklyn
3973:Category
3963:Timeline
3781:The Hole
3751:Sea Gate
3741:Red Hook
3666:Mapleton
3606:Flatbush
3566:Downtown
3521:Canarsie
3516:Bushwick
3435:Brooklyn
3301:Sea Gate
3229:Nathan's
2990:The Whip
2826:Brooklyn
2711:March 3,
2324:Archived
2311:Archived
2237:Archived
2226:Archived
2206:Archived
2193:Archived
2182:Archived
2171:Archived
1974:June 24,
1945:June 24,
1677:Avenue U
1651:Avenue X
1647:Avenue U
1455:Hispanic
1292:(mostly
1286:Avenue U
1229:monorail
1210:Brooklyn
1165:As town
1116:Avenue U
1109:Art Deco
1043:Egyptian
1015:sandhill
1011:wetlands
966:Colony.
845:Nine Men
686:Rustdorp
636:Wiltwijk
395:map 1656
351:New York
328:Avenue P
316:New York
304:Brooklyn
264:ZIP Code
178:Brooklyn
154:New York
4158:Newtown
4146:Jamaica
3983:Commons
3958:History
3676:Midwood
3631:Gowanus
3431:borough
3426:in the
3090:Tornado
3040:Defunct
2957:Phoenix
2933:Cyclone
2447:Newsday
2212:, p. 12
1720:B82 SBS
1523:Russian
1515:Mexican
1511:Chinese
1503:Italian
1394:Library
1336:Schools
1180:project
1112:Verizon
1066:Quakers
1045:émigré
914:History
716:Boswijk
706:Midwout
646:Pavonia
310:in the
300:borough
173:Borough
121:Country
4238:Pelham
4126:Queens
3481:BoCoCa
2879:(2009)
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1679:, and
1649:, and
1539:soccer
1507:Jewish
1505:, and
1459:Latino
1284:, and
1137:, and
1091:(also
996:island
945:Lenape
641:Bergen
560:De Wal
510:series
359:island
283:, and
205:29,436
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3571:Dumbo
2837:Parks
2533:(PDF)
1766:Notes
1653:; and
1499:Irish
1435:Asian
1431:White
1018:dunes
466:lies
411:(now
339:towns
269:11223
226:52.8%
141:State
72:below
2713:2019
2669:2020
2571:2021
2545:2021
2516:2019
2417:2018
2406:ISSN
2383:2019
2372:ISSN
2294:2012
2262:ISBN
2154:2011
2090:ISBN
2069:2019
2058:ISSN
2026:2019
1976:2008
1947:2008
1846:ISBN
1718:and
1694:The
1687:The
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1529:and
1424:2000
1398:The
1013:and
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384:Name
376:and
312:U.S.
242:16.0
234:21.2
184:Area
161:City
4027:of
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2655:PDF
2563:CNN
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