![]() ![]() In 1802, the Flushing Bridge and Road Company built a causeway over the salt marsh of Alley Pond, near Little Neck Bay. The company sold its first brews in early 2015. Adrian Martenses Suydam split his farm into lots in 1869, and by 1884, 125 homes had been built on his land.įormal beermaking was dormant in Bushwick until 2013, when Braven Brewing Company launched. (It seems these people had trouble with cardinal directions-it was actually east of its namesake.) Although initially nicknamed Ridgewood, it became known as Evergreen to avoid confusion with another Ridgewood (now known as Wantagh, in Long Island). In 1853, in its last year of independence as a town, Bushwick established a village called South Williamsburgh. By 1913, the waterway moved 5,000,000 tons a year-more than double the amount in Newark Bay, which would soon be developed into the nation's busiest port. Other factories produced sugar, oil, and chemicals those manufacturing and shipping industries contributed heavily to Newtown Creek’s current Superfund state. ![]() Among the early adopters along Newtown Creek was Peter Cooper, who in 1838 built a glue manufacturing plant on Furman’s Island, which is now connected to the Brooklyn mainland and the site of Cooper Park. Rapid development came to the new town, but Bushwick was not far behind. In 1840, Williamsburgh broke away from Bushwick. (The northern end of the Penny Bridge would serve as the border between Newtown and Long Island City when the latter seceded in 1870.) It was removed after the Kosciuszko Bridge opened in 1939 you can still see parts of its structure along the water. It carried traffic on Meeker Avenue across the Newtown Creek, following a crossing that had been served by a ferry as early as 1670. Heralding the potential for a new era in Bushwick’s history, the Penny Bridge was built in 1836. Unfortunately, our knowledge of the early history of Bushwick is limited, because much of the paperwork was lost-or perhaps intentionally destroyed-after Brooklyn annexed it (along with Williamsburgh) in 1854. Its centralized, elevated location served as a headquarters of sorts for British troops during the Revolutionary War. Within a year, there were 20 families in 1738, the register showed 249 white residents and 78 slaves. It was the last of Kings County's original six towns to receive a charter. This centralized location was named Boswijck (meaning "heavy woods") the following year by Stuyvesant himself. At this point, the population included several French Huguenots. To prevent further attacks, in 1660, Governor Pieter Stuyvesant ordered anyone living in an exposed location to abandon their farms and move to a centralized location. A few intrepid Dutch created a protected village in 1656 on what became known as Furman's Island, and called it New Arnheim. Many Dutch who did not abandon their farms for the walled confines of lower Manhattan were killed in retaliation.Īfter the war, most settlers were (understandably) reluctant to live out in the open. In exchange, the Lenape received "8 fathoms of duffels cloth, 8 fathoms of wampum, 12 kettles, 8 adzes, 8 axes, some knives, corals, and awls." In 1643, Governor Willem Kieft, against the will of colonists, massacred the native tribes, resulting in a two-year war. In 1638, the Dutch West India Company purchased 3,860 acres in what we now know as Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Bushwick from the Lenape tribe. Note: it will be helpful for readers to be familiar with the history of the borders within (and between) Queens and Brooklyn. Welcome to Blurred Lines, in which writer Keith Williams studies New York City's changing neighborhood boundaries. Some shift with the winds of gentrification. ![]() ![]() Some have stuck around for centuries, despite changing connotations. Some neighborhood names appear to be jokes. ![]()
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