page_title: Timeline of Brooklyn
section_title: 1880s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Brooklyn / 19th century / 1880s
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking southeast along centerline of Brooklyn Bridge shortly before dusk of a sunny day.
context_page_description: This is a timeline and chronology of the history of Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's boroughs, and was settled in 1646.
context_section_description: 1880 Weir Greenhouse in Sunset Park was built in 1880 and significantly rebuilt and enlarged in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
  1883
  Brooklyn Bridge opens, spanning the lower East River from New York's Manhattan Island near South Street Seaport vicinity to the Brooklyn Heights.
  Brooklyn Grays baseball team formed.
  Brooklyn Beef Company begins business.
  1884
  Famous author and humorist Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) and George W. Cable entertain with readings and storytelling at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  1885 – Brooklyn Elevated Railroad begins operating.
  1886 – New Lots becomes part of Brooklyn.
  75th Police Precinct Station House is a three-story, yellow brick building in the Romanesque Revival.
  68th Police Precinct Station House and Stable, a three-story brick building with carved stone detailing in the Romanesque Revival style.
  Daniel D. Whitney served as Mayor of Brooklyn from 1886 to 1887.
  1887
  Pratt Institute, and Luger's Café established.
  St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church was built in 1887 in the Gothic Revival style of architecture. It is constructed of red brick with light stone trim in a cruciform plan.
  Brooklyn Academy of Photography incorporated.
  1888
  Old First Reformed Church, in Park Slope construction started. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
  Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew (Brooklyn, New York) was built in 1888–91 as St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church and was designed by John Welch in the Romanesque Revival style.
  Alfred C. Chapin is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1888 to 1891.
  1889
  Elliott Buckmaster (1889–1976) – military person; U.S. Navy officer; naval aviator during World War I and World War II was born in Brooklyn.
  Brooklyn Society of Amateur Photographers organized.
  Montauk Club established.
caption: Brooklyn Bridge
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