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Under the Manhattan Bridge in DumboNew Utrecht Reformed Church, Bensonhurst

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Brooklyn began as Dutch towns: Breuckelen, Bushwick as Boswijck, Flatbush as Midwout, Flatlands as Nieuw Amersfoort, Gravesend and New Utrecht, settled, patented or chartered between roughly 1636 and 1661 — Gravesend on a patent granted in 1645 to Lady Deborah Moody and a group of English settlers. The City of Brooklyn absorbed the towns around it: Bushwick in 1854, Flatbush, Gravesend and New Utrecht in 1894, Flatlands in 1896, before the whole of it joined New York City at the consolidation of 1898. Many Brooklyn neighborhood names have a known author. Some are Lenape or Canarsee, some Dutch, and a great many belong to speculators — John Pitkin's East New York in 1835, James Lynch's Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea in 1888, Dean Alvord's Prospect Park South in 1899, William Reynolds's Borough Park in 1902. Others are much later revivals and coinages: Cobble Hill in 1959, Boerum Hill in 1964, Prospect Lefferts Gardens in 1968, Dumbo in 1978.

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