dutch farmhouses

Bensonhurst

A Brief Stroll Through Kings Highway’s 200-Year History

A photo from the 1910s of Kings Highway between Ocean Avenue and Brighton Beach Road. (Source: Brooklyn Public Library [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search~S63?/Xkings+highway&l=&m=k&s=&b=&SORT=D&Da=&Db=/Xkings+highway&l=&m=k&

18th ave

Tomorrow: Urban Archaeologist Discusses Brooklyn’s Dutch Farmhouse Past During Talk At New Utrecht Reformed Church

The Hendrick I. Lott House in Marine Park. Source: New Utrecht Reformed Church The following press release was sent to us by the Friends of Historic New Utrecht: Brooklyn’s old Dutch farmhouses and their importance to our history will be the subject of an illustrated lecture by an urban