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	Gravesend, Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gravesend was one of the original towns in the Dutch colony of New Netherland and became one of the six original towns of Kings County in colonial New York.
		Gravesend is notable for being a founded by a woman, Lady Deborah Moody; a patent was granted to the English settlers by Governor Kieft, December 19, 1645.
		Gravesend Town encompassed 7000 acres in southern Kings County, including the entire island of Coney Island, which was originally the town's common lands on the Atlantic Ocean, divided up, as was the town itself, into 41 parcels for the original patentees.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gravesend,_New_York (350 words)

	BROOKLYN - LoveToKnow Article on BROOKLYN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Brooklyn is connected with Manhattan by three bridges across the East riverthe lowest, known as the Brooklyn, opened in 1883; another, known as the Williamsburg or East River bridge, opened in 1903; and a third, the Manhattan, was opened in 1909.
		The oldest is that on Brooklyn (or Columbia) Heights, west of City Hall Park, rising abruptly from the river to a height of from 70 to 100 ft., and commanding a delightful view of the harbour.
		Brooklyn is also an important place for the milling of coffee and spices (the 1905 product was valued at $15,274,092), the building of small boats, and the manufacture of foundry and machine shop products, malt liquors, barrels, shoes, chemicals, paints, cordage, twine, and hosiery and other knitted goods.
	71.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BROOKLYN.htm (3861 words)

	Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The loss of Brooklyn's separate identity as a city was met with some consternation by some residents at the time, and later; the merger has been known as the "Great Mistake of 1898", as it was called by many newspapers of the day, and the phrase still denotes Brooklyn pride among old-time Brooklynites.
		Brooklyn, the 'Borough of Homes', can be understood as a collection of neighborhoods, many historically descended from the old towns and villages of Dutch times.
		Brooklyn's most beloved and cherished institution had left, and the move is cited by some historians as one of the catalysts for the decline of Brooklyn in the 1960s and 1970s.
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	Brooklyn; a Quick History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Brooklyn was one of the original six towns of Kings County, an original county when the county/town system was established in 1683 (Other local area original counties were New York, Richmond, Queens, Westchester and Suffolk.
		When the City of Brooklyn annexed the City of Williamsburgh and the Town of Bushwick, this area was then known as the eastern district of the City of Brooklyn and Williamsburgh lost its final “h”.
		South Brooklyn is north of southern Brooklyn because until 1894 the Red Hook area (South Brooklyn) was the southernmost part of the City of Brooklyn.
	www.geocities.com /buddychai2/Brooklyn/BklynHist.html (3876 words)

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		Gravesend is one of the original six towns of Brooklyn.
		Gravesend is inhabited by Irish, Italian, Hispanic, and Polish immigrants.
		Gravesend is a pleasant zone to reside in the area.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Brooklyn
		Brooklyn is the most populous of the five boroughs of New York City.
		Brooklyn's most famous team, the Dodgers, got its start in 1884 in the American Association, calling themselves the Bridegrooms and playing at the first of three venues called Washington Park.
		Brooklyn is also receiving a team in the new American Basketball Association in 2005.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Brooklyn (2439 words)

	Brooklyn On Line - Brooklyn History - The Lott House Archeological Research Project and Historical Restoration
		In typical Brooklyn fashion, King Francis was defeated by Charles V at Pavia and imprisoned in Madrid Spain.
		The Dutch settled into Brooklyn in the face of English Military threats, hostile English settlements east of Queens, and English settlement in Gravesend.
		The Story of Colonial Settlement of Brooklyn and Flatlands is repeated throughout the East Coast.
	www.brooklynonline.com /bol/history/ba/lotthouse (488 words)

	Gravesend, Brooklyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gravesend was founded in 1643 on a site marked by the square bounded on three sides by the Old Village Road at McDonald Avenue and Gravesend Neck Road.
		Until her death in 1659, Lady Deborah was a leader in the settlement, and even the testy Peter Stuyvesant sought her opinion from time to time.
		Lady Deborah is buried in the little cemetery opposite the house in the southwest corner of the square.
	www.brooklyn.net /neighborhoods/gravesend.html (190 words)

	Lake Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the oldest neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Gravesend was settled in 1643 by Lady Deborah Moody, who was seeking a religious haven after falling out of favor with the Puritans of Lynn, Massachusetts.
		Few remnants of the original village remain after 350+ years, as you may expect, but amazingly, the original square town plan as devised by Lady Moody is still reflected in the configuration of Village Roads North, South and East as well as Van Sicklen Street.
		Gravesend Neck Road trails off northeast from the original town, and Lake Place winds off to the west.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /Alleys/LAKE/lake.html (285 words)

	AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of GRAVESEND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The biggest special effect in 'Gravesend' is that the movie exists at all.
		Four of his buddies, all in their late teens, are arguing in a basement (Stabile is in jail at the time, which he later thanks God for).
		The only unsteadiness comes at the end when Stabile's narration asserts that living in Gravesend gives its residents a sense of what's real which only reinforces that perspective is exactly what his characters so tragically lack.
	www.avrev.com /dvd/revs/gravesend.html (516 words)

	Gravesend Brooklyn NY - Jeff Grandis - Assoc Real Estate Broker
		Gravesend is a neighborhood that is one of the original six towns of Brooklyn.
		The Real Estate in Gravesend Brooklyn New York consists of one and two family homes, with some three and four family houses and a few scattered apartment buildings.
		Neighborhood Boundaries: From Bay Parkway and Belt Parkway or, for local traffic, Shore Parkway on the west to Ocean Parkway on the east, from Avenue P on the north to the Belt or Shore Parkway on the south.
	www.jeffgrandis.com /n-gravesend.php (198 words)

	Name this Brooklyn Neighborhood - Page 2 - Wired New York Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Gravesend Neck Road was the road from the original town square of Gravesend to the Gravesend Neck, near Barren Island.
		Gravesend was the only English town among the original 5 Dutch towns of Brooklyn.
		According to Neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Madison is a separate neighbourhood east of Homecrest, the boundaries being from Ocean Avenue on the west to Nostrand Avenue and Gerritsen Avenue on the east, from Kings Highway on the north to Avenue U on the south.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/showthread.php?p=20768 (1052 words)

	LADY MOODY TRIANGLE - Historical Sign
		Gravesend’s design was one of the earliest in the New World to employ a block grid system.
		Gravesend Avenue (renamed McDonald Avenue in 1933) ran from the heart of town to the City of Brooklyn, providing residents of Gravesend with a route for trade and travel thoughout Kings County.
		The rail lines built through Gravesend at the end of the century, and the 1898 consolidation of Brooklyn with New York City spelled the end of the old English town’s bucolic era.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11220 (558 words)

	Selected Brooklyn Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Brooklyn, NY: The Brooklyn Educational and Cultural Alliance, 1984.
		Brooklyn, NY: The Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, 1990.
		Brooklyn, NY: The Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, 1985.
	userhome.brooklyn.edu /pnapoli/brooklyn/brooklyn_history_reference.html (946 words)

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		Gravesend is a quiet, suburban, flourishing neighborhood of Brooklyn area.
		Gravesend rents ranges from $700 to $2000 based on the size of the apartment.
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	Long Island History: A `Dangerous' 1600s Woman
		Moody returned to Gravesend in 1645, and on Dec. 19, a patent was granted by Kieft that is memorable for the freedoms it allowed.
		``Gravesend was the only permanent settlement in America's early colonization period to have been initiated, planned, and directed by a woman,'' wrote Thomas J. Campanella in the fall, 1993, Landscape Journal.
		In one of her last acts of dissension, Moody invited them to Gravesend, and the first Quaker meeting in the colonies was held in her house that year.
	www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs304a,0,5912509.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation (929 words)

	GRAVESEND PARK - Historical Sign
		Gravesend was the first English settlement in New York.
		Gravesend Avenue was a key route though Kings County, connecting the City of Brooklyn, and all towns on its way, to Gravesend.
		The City of Brooklyn first acquired this parcel in 1896 for construction of a disciplinary training school.
	nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11849 (583 words)

	61st Precinct Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is a residential area encompassing, Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
		Gravesend, the word comes from two Anglo-Saxon words meaning: at the end of a grove of trees.
		Midwood, located between Gravesend and Flatbush, comes from the Dutch word meaning “middle woods.” For more information about the communities in the 61st Precinct, contact The Gravesend Historical Society or look for the Guide Map to Historical Sites in Gravesend, Brooklyn.
	www.nyc.gov /html/nypd/html/pct/pro061.html (266 words)

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	Marine Park Report
		In August of 1997 the Brooklyn College summer field program, under the direction of H. Arthur Bankoff (ROPA certified), was asked by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation to conduct archaeological excavations at the Marine Park Creek.
		The Native American settlements of Brooklyn were mainly located around the coastal and adjacent areas (west, south and east).
		The area known as Nyack (consisting of all of the southwestern half of Brooklyn) was sold in 1652.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /anthro/dept/marinepark.htm (7717 words)

	Rent-Direct.com: NY Apartment Brooklyn apartments Gravesend / Homecrest
		Gravesend was founded in 1643 by Lady Deborah Moody, an Englishwoman seeking religious freedom, and is either named after the English seaport of Gravesend, Kent or is a corruption of the Dutch word Gravenzande that means "The Count's Beach".
		Gravesend is a rare English settlement in New York where most villages were originally Dutch, The Gravesend Cemetery is a historical treasure that is woefully neglected.
		Thirty-five percent of all immigrants in the early 1990s period settled in Brooklyn, with immigrants from the former Soviet Union making up one-quarter of that total.
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	My Brooklyn (214) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We now reside in South Florida and are planning on coming back to Brooklyn in the near future.
		Growing up in the 60s in Brooklyn was different then it is today.
		It's only 120 miles to Brooklyn but it's so different it could be a million miles.
	www.brooklyn.net /my_bklyn/my_bklyn_214.html (239 words)

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	Brooklyn Public Library \| Research & Reference
		In the summer of 1953, Sam and his mother move to Brooklyn to live with his grandfather after his mother loses her job.
		In 1947, a Chinese child moves to Brooklyn, and becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love of baseball.
		A girl from Brooklyn enjoys her summer at the beach painting and listening to the wild waves.
	www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org /readinglists.do?dispatch=detail&readinglistpageid=858 (722 words)

	New York Daily News - Home - Meet the ghoul suspects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Both are originally from Brooklyn, in their 40s, married with children and solid family men.
		His parents were in the funeral business, based in Brooklyn, with connections in social clubs, funeral homes and churches in Gravesend, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Carroll Gardens and other neighborhoods.
		In a macabre twist to the ever-expanding Brooklyn body-snatching investigation, authorities are probing whether the suspects harvested the corpses of unclaimed John Does destined for the city's Potter's Field, the Daily News has learned.
	www.nydailynews.com /front/story/356050p-303484c.html (1155 words)

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		In 1854, both the City of Williamsburgh & the Town of Bushwick were annexed to the City of Brooklyn.
		In 1894 the City of Brooklyn annexed the Towns of Flatbush, New Utrecht & Gravesend.
		The last independent Town in Kings County was Flatlands from 1894 to 1896 when it too was annexed to the city of Brooklyn, making the City of Brooklyn = in land mass to Kings County.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Civil/Kings.P.O.html (257 words)

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