New Utrecht
New Utrecht was a city in what is now the New York borough of Brooklyn . It was named after the Dutch city of Utrecht .
history
New Utrecht was founded in 1652 by Cornelius van Werckhoven . During the American Revolutionary War , the city was the British base of operations for the Battle of Long Island .
In 1894 New Utrecht was incorporated into Brooklyn, which in turn became part of New York City in 1898.
Today the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bensonhurst, Borough Park and Bay Ridge are located in the area of the former New Utrecht .
Web links
- Site about the history of New Utrecht (English)
- New Utrecht, Long Island, NY, History. Report from 1902 (English)
- New Utrecht . Forgotten New York (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ historicnewutrecht.org
- ↑ Brooklyn now a great city . In: New York Times . May 4, 1894 (American English, query.nytimes.com [PDF; accessed January 27, 2011]).
- ^ New Utrecht . ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Forgotten New York; Retrieved January 27, 2011.
