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Justice, decided to test McKane's methods by dispatching more than 20 Republican observers to examine the Gravesend voter registries and oversee the voting in all six districts of the town, as he was entitled to do by law. However, when the observers reached Gravesend town hall at dawn on election day, McKane, along with a large group of policemen and cronies, confronted them. When the observers balked and produced injunctions from the Brooklyn Supreme Court, McKane supposedly declared "injunctions don't go here" and ordered the men away. A scuffle ensued and five of the observers were beaten and arrested. This event raised great outrage. Early in the following year, McKane was tried, convicted, and sentenced to six years in
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generally low in Gravesend, except for Marlboro Houses, where illegal drugs contributed to higher crime rates than in the rest of the neighborhood. On December 25, 1987, white youths beat two black men in the neighborhood in an apparent "unprovoked attack." In January 1988, to protest the specific attack and the general climate of racial violence, Reverend
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beliefs, accused of spreading religious dissent in the Puritan colony. Kieft was recruiting settlers to secure this land that his forces had taken from the Lenape. Some clashes continued, and the town organization was not completed until 1645. The signed town charter and grant was one of the first to
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carpenter and contractor, he gained a variety of elected and appointed positions: as Gravesend town supervisor, chief of police, chief of detectives, fire commissioner, schools commissioner, public lands commissioner, superintendent of the Sheepshead Bay Methodist Church, head tenor of the church
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Gravesend's earliest European settlers were predominantly English and Dutch. Slavery was legal in the colony, and many settlers had enslaved African Americans as workers until after the American Revolution, when New York gradually abolished the institution. African Americans continued to work and
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McKane became a Democratic Party ward boss and had loose standards on who was allowed to vote: immigrants, dead people, seasonal migrant workers, and criminals. Voting records show many specious entries. On the eve of the 1893 election, William Gaynor, a lawyer running for Brooklyn Supreme Court
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White Sands' name is derived from the white sand which formerly covered the shore and the mouth of Coney Island Creek. The first houses to be built in the neighborhood were bungalows that were raised on stilts above the sand, but as development slowly progressed, much of the sand was removed and
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Although Coney Island continued to be a major tourist attraction throughout the 20th century, the closing of Gravesend's great racetracks in the century's first decade resulted in the rest of the old town fading into obscurity. Most of it was developed as a working and middle-class residential
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and her followers left in England, as you stated in your article about the community on Oct. 18, but by the Dutch governor-general, William Kieft. Kieft chose to name the settlement " 's'Gravesande" after the town in Holland that had been the seat of the Counts of Holland before they moved to
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was beaten to death in Gravesend by a group of white teenagers. The relationship between the predominantly African-American and more poor population of the Marlboro Houses and the predominantly white surrounding neighborhoods continued to be tense through much of the 1980s. By 1986, crime was
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stop of the Sea Beach Railroad (near the intersection of 86th and West Seventh Streets) and Brighton Beach in Coney Island, a distance of just over a mile. Despite the smooth and speedy ride, the BBR ultimately failed and the test route fell into disuse, as did the Boynton train and its shed.
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ever be awarded to a woman in the New World. John Tilton became the first town clerk of Gravesend and owned part of what later would become Coney Island. Moody, the Tiltons, and other early English settlers were known to have paid the Lenape for their land. Another prominent early settler was
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Beginning in the 1990s, the northeast section of the neighborhood was redeveloped with larger, upscale single-family homes, whose prices reached $ 1 million. This dramatically changed the composition of part of the neighborhood. In addition, some two-family homes were being converted back to
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The neighborhood center is still the four blocks bounded by Village Road South, Village Road East, Village Road North, and Van Sicklen Street, where the Moody House and Van Sicklen family cemetery are located. Next to, and parallel with the van Sicklen Family Cemetery is the
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along the shore of Gravesend Bay. It was one of the earliest planned communities in America. It consisted of a 16-acre (6.5 ha) square surrounded by a 20-foot-high wooden palisade. The town was bisected by two main roads, Gravesend Road (now
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granted her and a group of English settlers a land patent on December 19, 1645. Moody, along with John Tilton and wife Mary Pearsall Tilton, came to Gravesend after choosing excommunication, following religious persecution in
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The name "Gravesend" was given to the area by New Amsterdam's Dutch authorities. Local sources think that the name probably comes from Dutch words, which when combined can mean "groves end" or "Count's beach".
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showed a higher proportion of white residents of between 30,000 and 39,999 with Hispanic residents of between 5,000 and 9,999 and as well as Asian residents of between 5,000 and 9,999. The affordable housing
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In August 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, Gravesend Bay was the landing site of thousands of British soldiers and German mercenaries from their staging area on Staten Island, leading to the
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and Shore Parkway. By 2000, Home Depot had acquired about two-thirds of the properties in White Sands, and by 2002, the acquired properties had been razed and replaced by a new Home Depot location.
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then headquartered in New York City (at the time limited to the tip of Manhattan Island). The battle, in addition to being the first, would prove to be the largest fought in the entire war.
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led 450 marchers between Marlboro Houses and a police station, and were met with chants of "go back to Africa" and various racial epithets from a predominantly white crowd.
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holds a significant concentrated community of Black residents even though some Asian and Hispanic residents also live within the housing development as well.
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The now-defunct Gravesend Race Track opened on August 26, 1886 and hired mainly black workers, who tended to live nearby. Later, there was a surge in
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Brooklyn neighborhood. During the 1920s, many one-family homes were built in Gravesend, which were then converted to two-family housing during the
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Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
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Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, Gravesend remained a sleepy suburb. With the opening of three prominent racetracks (
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for such corruption. He was released near the end of the century and died of a stroke in his Sheepshead Bay home in 1899.
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choir, and Santa Claus at the annual Sabbath school Christmas celebration. From the 1870s to the 1890s, McKane cultivated
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The Town of Gravesend encompassed 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) in southern Kings County, including the entire
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Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre - New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010
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became interested in White Sands as the location for a new store due to its location near the highly-used
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Because of the association with Lady Moody, some speculate that it was named after the English seaport of
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immigrants are the most recent residents to share this neighborhood. The largest group is thought to be
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single-family houses. Despite high rates of car thefts, Gravesend's crime rate remained relatively low.
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Manly, Howard (December 29, 1987). "'An Unprovoked Attack': Black brothers tell of beating by whites".
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Lowenstein, Roger (July 25, 1988). "The Mood Gets Nasty in City Neighborhood as Racial Tension Rises".
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The religious freedom of early Gravesend made it a destination for ostracized or controversial groups,
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Historic sources, written in Dutch, suggest that it was named by the Dutch governor general
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A History Of Long Island: From Its Earliest Settlement To The Present Time, Volume 2
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from the local Lenape band for about $ 15 worth of seashells, guns, and gunpowder.
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Bradley T. Frandsen; Joan R. Olshansky; Elizabeth Spencer-Ralph (December 1979).
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football stadium. Of the Italian-American community, Sicilians (especially from
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South of Shore Parkway and north of Coney Island Creek, is sometimes called
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residents, immigrants and their descendants who moved out from Manhattan.
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Oil-soaked 'Mud Lines Industrial Canal' in Gravesend Bay, 1973. Photo by
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upon his death in August 1896 and also buried in Old Gravesend Cemetery.
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live in Gravesend after the abolition of slavery, clustering near the
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to the east, Stillwell Avenue to the west, Avenue P to the north, and
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The modern neighborhood of Gravesend lies between East 12th Street or
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reported that the neighborhood had become particularly popular among
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into a popular vacation spot, the town was developed as a successful
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New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
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Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.
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Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.
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Gravesend is notable as the only colonial town founded by a woman,
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in the fall of 1609. The Dutch claimed this land as part of their
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Marlboro Houses located right on the borderline of Gravesend and
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Around the same time, Gravesend was the site of testing for the
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and named for Gravesend's Italian community is a professional
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The island and its environs were first inhabited by bands of
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residents of any race were 16.0% (4,716) of the population.
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The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 52.8% (15,535)
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corridors. The services and lines, respectively, are:
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is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the
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created one of Coney Island’s first amusement parks,
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These residents built large 1114:building at Meucci Triangle, at 86th Street and 4255:Timeline of town creation in Downstate New York 1300:-style houses, and had their own police force. 2460: 2107: 2105: 2014:"Happy 350th Birthday, Bensonhurst! - BKLYNER" 1832: 1568:Syrian Jewish communities of the United States 1204:After McKane's fall from power, Gravesend and 3997: 3396: 3222:Rachel Carson High School for Coastal Studies 2789: 2671:"Baseball; Hometown Hero With an Arm of Clay" 929:1873 map of Gravesend by Alvin Jewitt Johnson 882: 450:, to the northeast Midwood, to the northwest 4311:Populated coastal places in New York (state) 2352:"If You're Thinking of Living in; Gravesend" 2050:"If You're Thinking of Living in: Gravesend" 2102: 1041:, where Lady Moody is said to be interred. 4004: 3990: 3403: 3389: 2796: 2782: 2618:Grynbaum, Michael M. (November 24, 2012). 2417: 2117: 2081: 2047: 1079:In 1654 the people of Gravesend purchased 889: 875: 442:to the south. To the east of Gravesend is 4326:Syrian-Jewish culture in New York (state) 4301:Italian-American culture in New York City 3192:Coney Island Fire Station Pumping Station 2525:New York City Department of City Planning 2472:"A Neighborhood Both Insular and Diverse" 1453:, and 1.3% (383) from two or more races. 1124: 32:Neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City 27:Neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City 4321:Syrian-American culture in New York City 2617: 2233: 1931: 1484: 1409: 1323: 1243: 1183: 1171: 1103: 1027: 932: 924: 478: 387: 4286:1645 establishments in the Dutch Empire 2547:"Map: Race and ethnicity across the US" 2239: 2048:Fioravante, Janice (October 18, 1992). 1958: 1956: 1927: 1925: 1798: 1796: 372:The modern-day neighborhood is part of 14: 4268: 2690:"Find Your Precinct and Sector - NYPD" 2527:. August 2021. pp. 21, 25, 29, 33 2469: 2447: 2349: 1993: 1991: 1989: 1987: 1985: 1894: 1892: 1890: 1888: 1882:. It means the count's sand or beach." 1779: 1777: 1775: 3985: 3384: 2845: 2777: 2649:Metropolitan Transportation Authority 2432: 2386:"Opinion | The Unreconstructed North" 2383: 2345: 2343: 2341: 2043: 2041: 2039: 2037: 2035: 1962: 1899:ForgottenTour 33, Gravesend, Brooklyn 1331:'s campus viewed from Bay 50th Street 192:1.144 sq mi (2.962 km) 4281:1645 establishments in North America 3966: 3327:West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium 2745:"Turk is Buried with Odd Ceremonies" 1953: 1922: 1793: 1371:PS 721K Brooklyn Occupational Center 1208:were annexed in 1894 by the city of 3534:Columbia Street Waterfront District 3263:Coney Island Beautification Project 1982: 1885: 1772: 1757:'s 60th, 61st, and 62nd Precincts. 1354:(now Lafayette Educational Complex) 24: 2832:Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park 2720:Gazetteer Of the State of New York 2448:Hevesi, Dennis (January 3, 1988). 2338: 2270:"Scientific American 1890 to 1899" 2082:Pelletreau, William Smith (1905). 2032: 1389:Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy 1268:, public housing units run by the 860: 750:Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions 337:Gravesend was one of the original 25: 4337: 2755: 2605:The Brooklyn Italians Soccer Club 2384:Sokol, Jason (December 5, 2014). 1963:Duffy, Peter (October 10, 1999). 1836:; Manbeck, John B., eds. 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Gravesend Bay
Neighborhood of Brooklyn
Looking at Lower New York Bay from Gravesend (2012)
Lower New York Bay
below
40°35′53″N 73°58′16″W / 40.598°N 73.971°W / 40.598; -73.971
Country
United States
State
New York
City
New York City
Borough
Brooklyn
ZIP Code
Area code(s)
718, 347, 929
917
New York City
borough
Brooklyn
Long Island
U.S.
New York
Belt Parkway
Bay Parkway
Avenue P
Ocean Parkway
towns
New Netherland

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