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Brooklyn Before the Bridge

In the seventeenth century, Brooklyn was one of only six towns of rural Kings County. By 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge opened, Brooklyn was the fourth largest city in the country, with a population of over a half million. Join Barry Lewis as he surveys the enormous changes the industrial era brought to bucolic Brooklyn: horse car lines, el train routes, thousands of middle-class brownstones in new bourgeois neighborhoods, and working-class tenements in today’s Williamsburg and Bushwick. With a park and parkway system that outshone New York’s, Brooklyn was getting ready for the “big time.”











When: Thu., Sep. 29, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Where: New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West
212-873-3400
Price: $48
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In the seventeenth century, Brooklyn was one of only six towns of rural Kings County. By 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge opened, Brooklyn was the fourth largest city in the country, with a population of over a half million. Join Barry Lewis as he surveys the enormous changes the industrial era brought to bucolic Brooklyn: horse car lines, el train routes, thousands of middle-class brownstones in new bourgeois neighborhoods, and working-class tenements in today’s Williamsburg and Bushwick. With a park and parkway system that outshone New York’s, Brooklyn was getting ready for the “big time.”

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