
Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in Kings County, New York. Although Brooklyn has been a borough of New York City for more than a century, it had a long and illustrious history as an independent city until that time. In 1890, the last census before it was annexed, Brooklyn ranked as the fourth largest city in the United States. The first settlement in what is now Bro...
Wikipedia Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Kings County, New York. It was granted National Historic Landmark status in 2006 by the U.S. Department of the Interior.Located in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, it lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, between Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park. Paul Goldberger in The New York T...
Pratt Institute is a private, nonsectarian, non-profit institution of higher learning located in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, with a satellite campus located at 14th Street in Manhattan. It originated in 1887 with programs primarily in engineering, architecture, and fine arts. Comprising five schools, the Institute is primarily known for its highly ranked ...
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument=* coordinates: 40° 41' 30" N. 073° 58' 32" W. Google Map * Feature Class: Park. Park: Fort Greene Park. Location: Myrtle to Dekalb Avenues, Edwards and Cumberland Streets * County: Kings. City: New York. Borough: Brooklyn. State: NY (New York) Country: US (United States)Please add profiles to this project (actions menu > add profiles) of anyone associated with the m...
Wikipedia =Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.The origin of Brooklyn College occurred in 1910 with the establishment of an extension division of the City College for Teachers. The school then began offer evening classes for first-year male college students in 1917. In 1930 by the New York City B...
The Evergreens Cemetery resides in Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. Also known as Cemetery of the Evergreens and Evergreens Cemetery, the cemetery is still active. The earliest recorded graves date from 1740. The Cemetery of the Evergreens is a non-denominational cemetery in Brooklyn, New York and partly in Queens. Find a Grave The Evergreens Cemetery, a historic cemetery in th...
The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in 1977, the Mariners are a member of the West division of the American League (AL) in Major League Baseball (MLB). Since July 1999, the Mariners' home ballpark has been Safeco Field, located south of downtown Seattle. From the team's inception in 1977 until June 1999, the club's home ball...
Wikipedia Medgar Evers College is a senior college of The City University of New York (CUNY), offering baccalaureate and associate degrees. It was officially established in 1970 through cooperation between educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn. It is named after Medgar Wiley Evers, an African American civil rights leader who was assassinated on June 12, 1963. Notable Faculty
Wikipedia =Long Island University (LIU) is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education with locations and programs spanning the New York metropolitan area, overseas, and online. The university offers more than 500 academic programs at two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, as well as non-residential programs at LIU Brentwood, LIU Riverhead, and LIU Hudson at Ro...
The area was inhabited for thousands of years by Native Americans including the Tachi Yokuts tribe. They continue to live in the area on the Santa Rosa Rancheria. It was colonized by Spain, Mexico and the United States. An 1805 expedition probably led by Spanish Army Lieutenant Gabriel Moraga recorded discovering the river, which they named El Rio de los Santos Reyes (River of the Holy Kings) ...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Flatbush, Brooklyn. Drawing of the Lefferts family's Flatbush homestead Flatbush is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood consists of several subsections in central Brooklyn and is generally bounded by Prospect Park to the north, East Flatbush to the east...
Gravesend was founded in 1645 by Lady Deborah Moody who led a group of religious dissenters fleeing persecution, in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The people from Gravesend were granted religious freedom, which was unusual for that period. Lady Moody was the only woman to found a colonial settlement in early North America. She was the first female landowner in the New World. Lady Deborah h...
Wikipedia The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed. It was originally referred to a...
Holy Cross Cemetery, located at 3620 Tilden Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City, is an American Roman Catholic cemetery operated by the Diocese of Brooklyn. Wikipedia The land for Holy Cross Cemetery was purchased from James and Mary Duffy, a portion of the old Van Brunt farm in the town of Flatbush in June of 1849. The first burial took place on July 13, 1849. The Chapel of t...
This cemetery is located on 10500 South Tenth Avenue, Hanford, Kings County, California. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Wikipedia Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a law school founded in 1901. It is located in Brooklyn Heights, New York City, in the United States, and has approximately 1,100 students. The Dean of the law school is Nicholas W. Allard, who assumed the role in 2012, as well as the role of president in 2014. Brooklyn Law School’s faculty includes 64 full-time professors, 6 emeriti faculty, and a numb...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. Carroll Gardens is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Taking up around 40 city blocks, it is bounded by Degraw and Warren Streets (north), Hoyt and Smith Streets (east), Ninth Street or the Gowanus Expressway (south), a...
The African Burial Ground of Flatbush was located in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. Also known as the Colored Cemetery of Flatbush, this burying ground has no physical location today. Burials are known only through obituaries, death certificates and area biographies. "In 1810, the Long Island Star published an obituary for “a negro woman named Eve, aged near 110 years,” who died in the vi...
Wikipedia Upsala College (UC) was a private college affiliated with the Swedish-American Augustana Synod (later the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church) and located in East Orange in Essex County, New Jersey in the United States. Upsala was founded in 1893 in Brooklyn, in New York City, and moved to Kenilworth, and finally to East Orange in 1924. In the 1970s, Upsala considered moving to Wa...
Cypress Hills Cemetery was founded on November 21, 1848. It is chartered by New York State as a non-profit, non-sectarian, membership corporation. Under construction for near three years, it officially opened in 1851. Today, despite the constantly increasing population and a demand for interment space from families throughout the New York City metropolitan area, Cypress Hills Cemetery has a la...
The cemetery is located on 11680 South 10th Avenue, Hanford, Kings County, California. Find a Grave
The cemetery is located on 10428 14th Avenue, Armona, Kings County, California. Find a Grave
Wikipedia =Cypress Hills National Cemetery is the only United States National Cemetery in New York City and has more than 21,100 interments of veterans and civilians. Find a Grave
Wikipedia St. Francis College, often referred to as St. Francis or SFC, is a private, coeducational college located in Brooklyn Heights, New York, in the United States. The campus comprises five interconnected buildings, occupying half of a city block in Downtown Brooklyn. It was founded in 1859 by friars of the Order of Servant Franciscans, a Franciscan order, as the St. Francis Academy and wa...
Wikipedia =Founded in 1946, the New York City College of Technology (known colloquially as City Tech) is the City University of New York’s college of technology. Notable Alumni