Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature. Gravesend Neck Road in 1879. Photo via the Brooklyn ...

GRAVESEND, England – American Indians from Virginia traveled to the burial place of Pocahontas on Friday as part of celebrations marking next year’s 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the ...

While dozens of names in Brooklyn have a Dutch origin, many of them were changed when the English took over. As our borough series "What's in a Name?" continues, we take a look at British influence in ...

The story: Gravesend is the only one of Brooklyn’s original six towns that was not established by the Dutch. English Anabaptists led by Lady Deborah Moody settled here in 1643. A persecuted religious ...