How Sunset Park got its name
September 22, 2025
Sunset Park offers stunning harbor views and a rich history, evolving from Dutch farmland to a diverse, multicultural Brooklyn neighborhood.
Sunset Park offers stunning harbor views and a rich history, evolving from Dutch farmland to a diverse, multicultural Brooklyn neighborhood.
Sunset Park evolved from Dutch farmland to an immigrant hub, industrial center and vibrant multicultural neighborhood with renewed commercial life.
Manhattan Beach began as farmland and became a Gilded Age seaside resort, later evolving into a quiet Brooklyn neighborhood.
East New York, settled in 1670 as New Lots, grew from farmland to a Brooklyn neighborhood shaped by history and 20th-century development.
East New York, once called Ostwout or New Lots, grew from 17th-century farms to a diverse immigrant hub, later facing decline before community-led revitalization.
Along with iconic New York, Coney Island, a peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Brooklyn, is a name known around the world.
Sheepshead Bay was named for a fish once common in the area. It now includes Homecrest, Madison, and Plumb Beach, a protected parkland.
Xaverian alumnus Father Michael Bruno has been appointed associate vicar for clergy and consecrated life, Roman Catholic Bishop of
The Easter season is upon us, and there is an egg-stravagant display to celebrate the holiday outside a popular Bay Ridge home.
A local artist used his talents to honor the owner of Mike’s Donuts and Coffee, Mike Neamonitis, who died March 7.
Cops said that at around 5:45 a.m., a person drew hate symbols on the front door and entrance ramp of the medical office.
Following news on the city’s plans to bring homeless shelters to apartment buildings at 5001 10th Ave. and 1016 50th St. later this year
Before its rich neon amusement culture, Coney Island was part of the town of Gravesend when it was founded in 1643 by an Englishwman.
Bergen Beach was developed as a modest-scale summer resort in comparison to neighboring Coney Island and Rockaway Beach.
This neighborhood once was an island inhabited by the Canarsie natives before the arrival of any Europeans.
Marine Park was originally part of the town of Flatlands and kept major development away until the 20th century when developers bought land.
In 1664, John Tilton, Sr. and Samuel Spicer of Gravesend acquired much of the land that became Mill Basin from the Canarsee tribe.
Part of the original Dutch town of Flatlands, the Mill Basin area was called Equendito by the indigenous Canarsies, who sold it in 1664.
What many consider the first real Dutch settlement in the land that was to become Brooklyn was at Gowanus.
Gowanus was settled by the Dutch in the 1640s, and by the early 1800s, development had already centered on the Gowanus Canal.
The origin of the name of this neighborhood may go back eons, when glaciers came down from the north as far south as New York City.
From the time of its colonization until the middle of the 19th century, the land that is Park Slope was primarily used for farming.
Cobble Hill was first settled in the mid-17th century when Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant began to allow farming north of Red Hook.
This neighborhood was settled in the 1640s, when Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant began to allow farming north of Red Hook.
When Henry Hudson sailed into the harbor over 400 years ago, he saw Staten Island to his left and land shaped like an owl head on his right.
Straddled by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Bay Ridge’s history highlights how developments in transportation have reshaped Brooklyn.
The owner of Mike’s Donuts, 6822 Fifth Ave., Mike Neamonitis, has died, the eatery’s Instagram account announced March 7. He was 84.
When Henry Hudson sailed into the harbor over 400 years ago, he saw Staten Island to his left and land shaped like an owl head on his right.
Straddled by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Bay Ridge’s history highlights how developments in transportation have reshaped Brooklyn.
Why travel more than 4,000 miles to Rome to see something that can be viewed — more intimately and up close — in your own Brooklyn backyard?
The Federation of Italian American Organizations (FIAO) held its annual fundraising brunch, prerequisite to the Brooklyn Columbus Day Parade.
The Greenpoint YMCA is honoring three community leaders who embody the organization’s key themes at its seventh annual “Spirit of Community.”
The 51st annual Third Avenue Festival, promoted as “The Biggest Block Party in New York City,” presented by the Merchants of Third Avenue.
It was standing room only Tuesday evening at the Greenhouse Café, as the Kiwanis Brooklyn Division End of Term Dinner took place.
The King of Rock and Roll, or Elvis impersonator Lamar Peters, was the musical backdrop for the Kiwanis Club.
Pickleball facility and gathering space PKLYN opens on Sept. 29, on Fourth Street between Hoyt and Bond Streets.