page_title: Timeline of Brooklyn
section_title: 1890s
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Brooklyn / 19th century / 1890s
caption_attribution_description: English: Brooklyn Museum shortly before sunset on a partly cloudy 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: 1890 – Population: 838,547, according to the 1890 United States Census, making Brooklyn the fourth largest city in America.
  The U.S. Navy Department at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the East River, launches a battleship of a new generation, the Maine (ACR-1). Eight years later its explosion triggered the short Spanish–American War.
  1891 – Old First Reformed Church built.
  Boy's High School built and today is regarded as "one of Brooklyn's finest buildings".
  23rd Regiment Armory, in Crown Heights area, built 1891–95. Placed on the New York City Landmarks list and the National Register of Historic Places administered by the National Park Service, of the U.S. Department of the Interior
  Rockwood Chocolate Factory Historic District, buildings built between 1891 and 1928. Much of the industrial complex has since been converted to loft apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
  African-American (then called "colored" or "Negro") educator and activist Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), president of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama delivers a speech on full emancipation of the race at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  United States Navy rear admiral George H. Cooper dies and is buried
  1892 – Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch dedicated to the memory of the veterans and the casualties from the Civil War of which the people and resources of Brooklyn, played a large part.
  Renaissance Apartments, at Hancock Street and Nostrand Avenue in the Bedford-Stuyvesant community constructed.
  Construction starts on the Grand Prospect Hall, banquet hall in Park Slope. A four-story building in the French Renaissance style of architecture. and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
  The parish house was built at the New Utrecht Reformed Church.
  David A. Boody is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1892 to 1893.
  1893 – Andrews Methodist Church (later United Methodist) built.
  Burlesque, vaudeville and motion pictures star of the 20th Century, Mae West is born in Brooklyn, an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.
  Andrews Methodist Church (later United Methodist), a one-story, asymmetrical orange brick church with massive rose window and a three-story, square bell tower.
  Baptist Temple is designed in the Romanesque Revival style of architecture and features a large rose window and three corner towers.
  Category 3 hurricane destroys buildings in Coney Island and Brighton Beach.
  1894
  Areas of Flatbush, Gravesend, and New Utrecht become part of the City of Brooklyn.
  Eastern District High School opens.
  Baptist Temple building completed.
  83rd Precinct Police Station and Stable for the Brooklyn City Police was built in the Romanesque Revival style.
  Charles A. Schieren is elected the Mayor of Brooklyn from 1894 to 1895.
  1895 – The Brooklyn Museum founded in a building of  560,000 square feet (52,000 m²), planned to be the largest art museum in the world.
  Brooklyn trolley strike disrupts commerce; National Guard keeps order.
  1896 – Brooklyn Public Library established, separate from the New York Public Library system.
  Brooklyn's expansion of its population and commercial/residential and industrial development had reached its natural municipal boundaries at the Kings County line with almost all of the available territory is now "urbanized".
  Lefferts Manor established, later becomes a national historic district in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush.
  Frederick W. Wurster is elected and later becomes the last Mayor of Brooklyn.  His office is replaced by the Brooklyn Borough President and the Brooklyn City Hall becomes the Brooklyn Borough Hall.
  1898 – City of Brooklyn becomes one of five boroughs (Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, Staten Island), of the new reorganized City of Greater New York, with a new municipal charter after a long controversy, debate and campaign through the 1890s. Consolidation was opposed by the city's main daily newspaper, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
  1899
  Grace Methodist Episcopal Church built, (later becomes Bay Ri
caption: The Brooklyn Museum (exterior shown) was founded in 1895
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