Brooklyn By Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments In the course of writing this book, we were extremely fortunate to be supported by a large number of people. John Manbeck, Eric Wakin, Justin Burke, and Andrew Alpern offered invaluable insights and prevented us from costly errors. Neighborhood historians Victoria Hofmo, Lee Rosenzweig , Ira Kluger, and Brian Merlis enlightened us with their local expertise. Ron Schweiger and Judith Stonehill provided necessary and well-timed encouragement . We offer special thanks to David Elligers for his extraordinarily generous contributions and rigorous critique of the myths of New Utrecht. Thanks to Amy Peck from the Prospect Park Alliance for her time and editorial input. And for anyone curious about New York City’s palimpsest, we find Kevin Walsh’s unparalleled on-line resource Forgotten NY to be required reading. We cannot overstate our thanks to the incredible group at the Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection, that assisted us with the bulk of our research : Judith Walsh, Joy Holland, Elizabeth Harvey, Susan Aprill, and June Koffi. Working with such a dedicated, passionate, and knowledgeable team, we quickly made the Brooklyn Collection our second home. We were also fortunate that the Brooklyn Historical Society reopened its library in time for us to avail ourselves of its rich holdings. We are grateful to the individuals who helped in gathering photographs to illustrate our book, Erik Huber, John Hyslop, and Judith Todman at the Queens Public Library, Long Island Division, and Carey Stumm at the archives of the New York Transit Museum. We also offer our appreciation to Michael Vachon, who provided us with John Vachon’s photographs of John Lindsay, and to Tom Ginocchio for his historic photos of the Brooklyn Bridge. Writing this book also gave us the opportunity to become acquainted with some highly talented photographers whose work we feature and whose friendship we now enjoy—in particular, Lucille Fornasieri Gold and Anders Goldfarb, as well as our cartographer and Old Stone House aficionado Peter Joseph. Thanks also to Peter Fabry for taking the time to discuss his father’s Brooklyn murals.| xi A very special thanks to our editor, Ilene Kalish of NYU Press, for her direction and encouragement, to Salwa Jabado for her care and assistance and, not least, to Despina Papazoglou Gimbel and Charles Hames, for their meticulous attention to the book’s layout and design. To our families who offered unstinting support, and friends, who took an active interest and served as a sounding board while we slogged away, we say thank you. Last, we would like to acknowledge Henry Moscow, whose book on Manhattan was the chief inspiration for our own. xii | acknowledgments Brooklyn by Name Brooklyn Heights Park Slope Red Hook Carroll Gardens Sunset Park Fort Greene Prospect Park Green-Wood Cemetery Bay Ridge Borough Park Bensonhurst Midwood Brighton Beach Coney Island Floyd Bennett Field Marine Park Greenpoint W illiamsburg Cypress Hills East NewYork Bushwick Bedford Stuyvesant New Lots Ocean Hill Brownsville Crown Heights Prospect Heights Canarsie Flatlands Mill Basin Prospect Lefferts Gardens W indsor Terrace Flatbush Ditmas Park Gravesend East Flatbush Sea Gate Sheepshead Bay Manhattan Beach Dyker Heights Fort Hamilton Kensington Bath Beach Boerum Hill Clinton Hill Cobble Hill Fulton Ferry Landing Gowanus Vinegar Hill DUMBO Downtown Brooklyn Prospect Park South Gerritsen Beach BROADW AY ATLANTIC AVE B.Q.E. B . Q . E . EASTERN PKWY F L A T B U S H A V E CO N EY IS LA N D AV E O CE A N PK W Y B A Y P K W Y BELT PKWY BELT PKWY FO RT H A M ILTO N PKW Y K I N G ’ S H W Y N 0 1 2 3 4 5 mi. BROOKLYN ...