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A Quick History of Brooklyn

Don't Fuhgeddaboudit Events to remember from Brooklyn's past 1635 First Dutch settlements spring Jackie Robinson1955 After losing the 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs, up, with the first land purchases from the Lenape (or Canarsee) Indians taking place around what is the first instoallment of Neil Simon's World Series to the Yan- Eugene trilogy, opens at the Alvin Theatre. kees five times in the previous 14 years, the Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Bombers in seven games. now Flatbush in 1636. 1987 Brooklyn Democratic boss 1776 American troops Meade Esposito is found guilty of bribery. 1958 The Brooklyn Dodgers leave underGeorge Wash- ington lose the Battle of Brooklyn but manage to retreat to Manhattan. for Los Angeles. 1988 Life magazine 1960 United Airlines Flight 826 calls Red Hook the "crack capital of and Trans World Airlines Flight 266 1829 The Coney Island America." collide in midair, with the United Hotel is constructed, the first step in creating a legendary amusement destination. jet crashing into Park Slope, killing everyone on board and six people on the ground. 1989 spike Lee releases Do the Right Thing. 1841 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle is launched. It will print daily until 1955. 1966 | The Navy abandons the Brooklyn Navy Yard, reflecting 1991 After a black child is killed and another is injured in an accident involving a member of the Hasidic community, the Crown Heights riots erupt. A Jewish graduate student is slain. the deterioration of the entire 1861 The Brooklyn Academy of Music is founded. waterfront. 1968 An experiment in community 1862 The famous school control in Brownsville leads to a dispute between majority- black parents and mostly white teachers, triggering a massive school strike. 1997 After being arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub, Abner Louima is sodomized with a plunger handle in a bathroom at the 70th Precinct in Flatbush. ironclad USS Moni- tor is launched from the Continen- tal Iron Works. 19/2 Brooklyn Rep. 1867 Prospect Park opens Shirley Chisholm, the first 2005 Brooklyn Democratic boss to the public. black woman elected to Clarence Norman is found guilty of violating election law. 1883 The Brooklyn Congress, receives 152 votes as a candidate for Bridge opens. 2006 The New York president at the Demo- cratic National Convention. NEIS State Public Authorities 1898 Brooklyn, Queens Control Board approves Atlantic Yards. and Staten Island consoli- 1974 starrett City, the largest feder- date with Manhattan and the Bronx ally subsidized housing complex in the nation, opens in Spring Creek. 2007 The Pfizer factory in Bed-Stuy closes-another blow to the borough's manufacturing to form the five-borough city. 1927 The 37-story Williamsburgh 1977 Rioting in Bushwick during a Savings Bank tower is constructed. It will reign as the tallest building in Brooklyn until being replaced by the 51-story Brooklyner in 2010. blackout leaves 27 stores burned sector. down. 2008 Ikea opens in Red Hook. 1978 A Coast Guard helicopter 2010 Over the city's 1943 Betty Smith pub- patrol discovers an oil slick in New- town Creek. The Greenpoint oil spill objections, the Gowa- nus Canal is named a lishes A Tree Grows in would come to be known as one of Brooklyn. the largest in U.S. history. federal Superfund site. Photos: New York World-Telegram, Harpers Magazine, Edvin, Postdlf, Thomas J. O'Halloran, Jim Henderson, Colin Lenton

A Quick History of Brooklyn

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A History of politics, culture, and trends in Brooklyn, New York City.

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