page_title: Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn
section_title: Settlement
hierarchical_section_title: Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn / History / Settlement
caption_attribution_description: English: View from the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn (Vinegar Hill) (1883) Deutsch: Blick vom Turm der Brooklyn Bridge nach Brooklyn (Vinegar Hill) (1883)
context_page_description: Vinegar Hill is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City on the East River Waterfront between Dumbo and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The neighborhood is locally governed by Brooklyn Community Board 2 and is policed by the New York City Police Department's 84th Precinct. The large Irish-American population in Vinegar Hill made it one of several New York City neighborhoods once known colloquially as Irishtown.
context_section_description: Dutch settlers began arriving in 1637 along the waterfront area up, up to Fulton Street. When the Dutch settlers arrived in the early seventeenth century, the Canarsee, already weakened by disease, hunger, and warfare, began to sell their land to the settlers and commenced on a long westward migration that would take them as far as Illinois territory. 
  The land was sold by the Indians to Joris Jansen Rapalje. Rapelje acquired the land for farming purposes; it was renamed to Breuckelen circa 1646. The first ferry began operating from the northern point of Fulton street few years earlier in 1642. It  connected the land of Breuckelen with Manhattan, the route spanning the East River.
  In 1674 the English subjects, under the rule of King Charles II, took control over the land during the events of the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Then, Kings County consisted of six regions: Brooklyn, Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht. The Vinegar Hill district was part of the region of Brooklyn.
caption: Vinegar Hill in 1883 from the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
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