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Yellow fever disease 500 [9] 1776 Battle of Long Island: warfare 364 [19] 1963 1963 New York City smog: pollution 300–405 [20] 1876 Brooklyn Theatre fire: fire 278+ [21] [g] 2001 American Airlines Flight 587: aircraft 265 [24] 1996 TWA Flight 800: aircraft 230 [25] 1953 1953 New York City smog: pollution 200–260 [20] [26] 1966 1966 New York ...
Until the late 19th century, Bay Ridge would remain a relatively isolated rural area, [21]: 4 reached primarily by stagecoaches, then by steam trolleys after 1878. [23]: 15 In 1892, the first electric trolley line was built in Brooklyn, starting at a ferry terminal at 39th Street and running via Second Avenue to 65th Street, and then via Third Avenue.
Brooklyn Heights is a residential neighborhood within the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The neighborhood is bounded by Old Fulton Street near the Brooklyn Bridge on the north, Cadman Plaza West on the east, Atlantic Avenue on the south, and the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway or the East River on the west. [5]
Bellevue traces its origins to the city's first permanent almshouse, a two-story brick building completed in 1736 on the city common, now City Hall Park. [6] [7]In 1798, the city purchased Belle Vue farm, a property near the East River several miles north of the settled city, which had been used to quarantine the sick during a series of yellow fever outbreaks.
Bensonhurst today is home to Brooklyn's second Chinatown and has the largest population of residents born in China and Hong Kong of any neighborhood in New York City. [5] The neighborhood accounts for 9.5% of the 330,000 Chinese-born residents of the city, based on data from 2007 to 2011.
The boundaries of East Williamsburg as noted on a map. East Williamsburg is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of Brooklyn, New York City, United States.East Williamsburg consists roughly of what was the 3rd District of the Village of Williamsburgh and what is now called the East Williamsburg In-Place Industrial Park (EWIPIP), bounded by the neighborhoods of Northside and Southside ...
John James Audubon, famous ornithologist, caught yellow fever on arrival in New York City when he emigrated to the United States in 1803. He died of Alzheimer's disease in 1851. Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist), died at age 29 in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Haven, Connecticut and New York City.