Complex sentence: The park, like the elementary school which occupies the same block, was named after George Vanderhoof Brower (c.1839-1921), the Commissioner of Parks for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens from 1889 to 1894 and from 1898 to 1901.
Split into simpler sentences: The park, like the elementary school which occupies the same block, was named after the Brooklyn Parks Commissioner George V. Brower (c.1839-1921). Brower was General Appraiser of the Port of New York from 1880 to 1884, and he was a Parks Commissioner from 1889 to 1894 and from 1898 to 1901.