A history of the NYC Brevoorts exists at an unlikely place: The story of a street park THE BREVOORT PLAYGROUND:

http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/brevoortplayground/history

"This playground and the adjacent housing development were built at the same time and are named for one of New York’s oldest families, the Brevoorts. Today, the Brevoort real estate firm still maintains some of the family’s holdings, including a Manhattan residential building called the Brevoort at 11 Fifth Avenue. The Brevoort name, like the name Stuyvesant, is synonymous with the story of Old New York.

In 1660, Hendrick Janszen (ca. 1630-?) left his home village, Bredevoort (meaning “broad ford”’), in the region of Guelderland, the Netherlands, with his wife and children, and sailed for New Netherland. In keeping with the custom of being identified by one’s town of origin, he acquired the surname van Brevoort, or Brevoort. Nearly every Brevoort living in the United States is descended from him.

{And, there are at least one other male-line surnames in use {Hendricks} }

Hendrick’s son Jan Hendrick Brevoort (1644-1714) bought property in Harlem, where he served as overseer of the town in 1678 and 1679. At the beginning of the 18th century, Jan Hendrick left Harlem for lower Manhattan. Upon his death, he bequeathed equal shares of his farm in the Bowery to his children. His son Hendrick (1670-1718) came to own most of the property, which in turn went to his son, also named Hendrick (1711-1771), who expanded the family holdings to nearly 80 acres. The property stretched from the Bowery to Sixth Avenue and from what is now Ninth Street to Eighteenth Street. When the Brevoort lands were broken up and sold, they yielded a fortune to the family, which was by then an established social force, headed by Henry Brevoort (1747-1841).

{~• ed. note: the full story is a little more intricate: The 1748 sale of 22 acres, a sizable chunk of the 80 acres, was not at a great price... Real estate values did not boom until well after the American Revolution. In other words, it was only a remenant of the 80 acres that provided the 'fortune'}

Henry Brevoort, Jr. (1791-1874) and his wife, Laura (Carson) Brevoort, built a mansion on the remainder of the family property at Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street, just when the fashionable world was beginning to train their sights above Bleecker Street. The Brevoorts presided there with great splendor. Their fancy dress ball in 1840 set the standard for lavish entertainment. Henry, Jr., had a reputation as something of a literary wit, and was a friend and correspondent of the writer Washington Irving (1783-1859).

Other famous Brevoorts include James Renwick Brevoort (1832-1918), an architect who, with his cousin James Renwick (1818-1895), designed St. Patrick’s Cathedral. James Renwick was also the architect of Grace Church, in lower Manhattan, the Booth Theater, in midtown; the Smithsonian Institution and the Corcoran Art Gallery, in Washington, D.C.; and Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

The City acquired this parkland along with the site for the housing development, in February of 1951. The New York City Housing Authority, which assumed control of the project, leased the playground site to Parks in 1957. The playground will remain under Parks jurisdiction until the property ceases to be used for public housing."

See also: https://plus.google.com/105905660798823454129/about?gl=us&hl=en

• for an examination of another male line and its descendants see : Hendricks

THE BREVOORT FARM

~• from I.N. Stokes' Iconography:
Brock Cueck List. 576-565-557-574-576.

The Brevoort farm, 86 acres in extent, included three early
ground-briefs.

A. The grant to Bastiaen Elles.
B. The grant to Egbert Wooterse.
C. The grant to Simon Congo.

The most southerly tract, of 16 acres, was granted to Bas-
tiaen Elyssen from Werckhoven, a wheelwright, often referred
to as Bastiaen de rademacker.

A 25 acre tract adjoining on the north was patented to
Egbert Wooterse. This 41 acre farm became the well known
Brevoort farm in later days. It vested in John Hendricksen
Brevoort in 1701.

Both grants were from Stuyvesant. Without doubt they
replaced earlier ground-briefs which had been abandoned, for
the 45 acre parcel next further north had been patented to
Simon Congo, a free negro, during Kieft’s administration. The
Dutch grants were laid out in methodical fashion; there would
not have been a gap between Stoutenburgh’s land and Simon
Congo’s. In later years this 45 acre parcel became the Spingler
and Burling farms.

In the New York Historical Society, in the Gibbs collection
of copies of early maps, there is a survey of the entire farm
made by Francis Maerschalck, May 9, 1760. A note on the
margin reads: “The above is a faithful copy from the original
on parchment by Franc. Maerschalk. New York Dec. 23,
1844. Carson Brevoort.”

The map shows three parcels. The most southerly, “Hen-
dricus Brevoorts Land—Contents 41a. 2r. 3op.”” Next, “John
Smiths Land. Contents 22.0.9.” The most northerly, “Mr.
Dawsons Land. Contents 22.3.20.”

There is a copy of this map in the Bancker Coll. in N. Y.
P. L., made by Gerard Bancker from the original, Aug. 18,
1787.

"The ancestor of the Brevoort family in America was Hendrick Jansen, from Brevoort in the diocese of Utrecht. He
was born there in 1630. From 1659 to 1665 he occupied the Kyckuyt farm in Bushwick, owned later by Jean Muserole. His son, John Hendricks Brevoort, called Jan Hendricksz Kyckuyt, removed to New York, where he lived in 1673, going to Harlem in 1675. In 1701 he bought the 41 acre farm from his father in law, Bastiaen Elyssen. He married Annetje Bastians van Werckhoven, Jan. 29, 1668.—Marr. in Ref.
Dutch Ch., 33-

This was the only land here that John Hendricks Breevoort owned. The Congo land was bought by his son, Hendrick, born 1670, died 1718, who was known as “Henry Brevoort of the Bowery,” to distinguish him.

(see: https://archive.org/stream/ldpd_5800727_006/ldpd_5800727_006_djvu.txt )