1 Cool Fact You Didn't Know, For Each Neighborhood In BK

Oh Boy, does Brooklyn have so many hidden stories; too many to count. Did you know that Crown Heights once housed a penitentiary back in the early 1900s, or that the same neighborhood was home of the first Black-Owned gay club in the city? Did you know that Coney Island theme park was originally adults only with a very burlesque theme? While there is probably so much you don’t know about the borough, we combined a list of one fact from each neighborhood, that we’re sure you’ll find interesting!

Williamsburg

First neighborhood to turn the old warehouses into collector items and transforming them into music venues, restaurants and boutiques.

Brooklyn Heights

This is the place where George Washington retreated from along the East River in the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

Prospect Heights

Prospect Park is a man-made park which was built off of the inspiration of England’s Birkenhead Park.

Crown Heights

Before this residents called this neighborhood home, it used to be home to pig farms.

Bushwick

In 1661, Peter Stuyvesant originally named this area Boswijck, which is colonial Dutch for “town in the woods”.

Bedford Stuyvesant

The Slave Theater, once used as a rallying point for black political figures and activists, is located on Fulton Street between Bedford Avenue and Nostrand Avenue.

Sheepshead Bay

Many people think that Sheepshead Bay was named after a sheep but it was actually named after a fish. The Sheepshead Fish once lived in the waters that surrounds the neighborhood.

Greenpoint

Longtime US Rep. John Rooney, once dubbed Greenpoint the ” Garden of Brooklyn.

Cypress Hills

This neighborhood is known as Union Place due to the Union Course racetrack that once stood in the area.

East New York

East NY was purchased in 1835 by Connecticut merchant John R. Pitkin (Pitkin Avenue ring a bell?), with the dreams of making the neighborhood a mini-metropolis to rival the growing areas in Manhattan.

Brownsville

Some of the street names in this neighborhood are named after families that sold their farmland to Charles S. Brown. These families were Vanderveers, Schencks, Von Sinderens and the Lotts.

Canarsie

Canarsie was the last neighborhood in Brooklyn that was owned by the Native Indian, Lenape.

Clinton Hill

Used to have its own roller skating rink on Clermont Ave and its own elevated railroad on Kent and Myrtle Avenues.

Fort Greene

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Fort Greene was the home of fame poet Walt Whitman in the 1840’s.

Flatbush/East Flatbush

This neighborhood was the inspiration for Warner Brothers most famous character Bugs Bunny. According to Mel Blanc, the character’s original voice actor, Bugs Bunny has a Flatbush accent.

Brighton Beach

On September 1, 1889, Susan B. Anthony, veteran women’s rights advocate, lunched at the Brighton Beach Hotel, summer home of the Seidl Society.

Marine Park

Marine Park has a freshwater creek that was once turned into a storm drain in the 1920’s.

Mill Basin

Mill Basin was an area once filled shallow marshes and small islands before its development after World War 2 and wasn’t complete until the 20th century.

Coney Island

The Dutch found Coney Island in the 1600’s and referred to it as konijnen eylandt also known as Rabbit Island.

Midwood

The only neighborhood where the south (of Midwood) is located in the north.

Kensington

Before the 1850’s, this area was mostly home to farmlands.

Fort Hamilton

This neighborhood was the place that General Robert F. Lee was a member of the St. John’s Episcopal Church located on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 99th Street.