Vinegar Hill (Brooklyn)
Vinegar Hill is a neighborhood in the New York district of Brooklyn . The neighborhood is on the East River , east of Dumbo and west of the New York Naval Shipyard , also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
location
The neighborhood stretches from the East River to Front Street and from Bridge Street to the New York Navy Yard industrial estate and is about 6 blocks. Before the construction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway , which runs south of Vinegar Hill, the neighborhood extended to Tillary Street . Part of the current district has been designated as the Historic District of New York City. This includes 3 separate parts (Area I-III), on Front Street , Water Street and Hudson Avenue . Most of the buildings date from the 19th century, some of which are purely residential, others are industrial buildings with warehouses and factories. The paving of some streets still consists of the original large stone paving made of granite blocks.
history
At the end of the 18th century, the land was bought by contractor John Jackson and later bankers and congressmen Comfort and Joshua Sands . Jackson opened a shipyard at the end of what is now Hudson Avenue and built houses for the shipyard workers in the area. In the early 19th century, he sold land to the federal government of the United States, which built the New York Naval Shipyard here. Jackson expanded the residential development for the workers and employees of the shipyard, which employed up to 7,000 people. He named the neighborhood Vinegar Hill in commemoration of the final battle of the Anglo-Irish conflict, the Battle of Vinegar Hill , which took place in Enniscorthy , Ireland on June 21, 1798 . In the late 19th century, the population of this area consisted largely of Irish , hence it was also known as Irishtown. The shipyard, which had a major impact on the development of the quarter, was finally abandoned in 1966, after which the City of New York managed the site and established an industrial area there.
Tourist importance
On the corner of Evans and Little Street is the Federal Style House , built between 1805 and 1806 and registered in the National Historic Landmark Register, Quarters A. This is where the commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard traditionally lived. Among other things, the Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry lived here for about 10 years from 1841.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Vinegar Hill with the location of the historc district (pdf; 92 kB) ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2011 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.
- ^ Eugene L. Armbruster, 1929, The Olympia Settlement in Early Brooklyn, NY
- ↑ a b Vinegar Hill historic district designation report (pdf; 12.9 MB) ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 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.
- ↑ National Register of Historic Places, Inventory Nomination Form (pdf; 326 kB)
Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 9 ″ N , 73 ° 58 ′ 52 ″ W.