Talk:History of Brooklyn

message: There's a discussion about this over at Talk:New Amsterdam#Brooklyn named from gebrokeland or Breukelen?. -R. S. Shaw 19:14, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brooklyn named from gebrokeland or Breukelen? 

message: I just learned about the Great Fire of September 9 1848 that "destroyed seven blocks of about 250 buildings encompassed by Henry, Pineapple, Sands and Washington streets, including three churches, two newspapers (one of them the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) and a post office." according to an article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. I believe it deserves some sort of reference. Should it go in the main article or is there a sub article that would be more appropriate? I guess it could also go in Timeline of New York City crimes and disasters. Ando228 (talk) 14:44, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A small section between the two war sections, with this link for a reference, seems appropriate.  Too bad we have practically nothing for the 80 years interwar period; this would be a start.  Jim.henderson (talk) 14:57, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree about the stricter sequence. Toward a unified City of Brooklyn could probably use some subsections too. Although I'd wait a couple days to let others see these comments before reordering the sections, etc... Google books is actually a great resource for 19th century Brooklyn. I've found all sorts of material available in full. I could probably find some more sources on the fire there. Ando228 (talk) 15:14, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Great Fire of 1848

message: Branching off from the earlier discussion about chronology with Jim.henderson, I would suggest these major sections:
:Colonial Brooklyn (through 1783) -- Six Dutch towns, Six townships in an English province, American Revolutionary War.
:Toward a unified City of Brooklyn (1784-1898) -- this part needs the most structure since it's really the core of the article, or at least should be. It should include the content from Toward a unified City of Brooklyn but it should have a more general title. It could also be broken down by major events like the Fulton Ferry in 1814 and Brooklyn's incorporation as a village in 1816; the consolidation of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, and Bushwick in 1855; and the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883. Subsections about industry, government, etc... would be great.
:New York borough -- 1898 and pre-1898 history concerning borough status
A couple potential, albeit old, sources hosted by Google Books:
:Gazetteer of the State of New York By Frank Place, John Homer French (1860)
:A History of the City of Brooklyn By Henry Reed Stiles (1870)
:A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County By Stephen M. Ostrander, Alexander Black (1894)
:The Eastern District of Brooklyn By Eugene L. Armbruster (1912)
:Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac (1922) including Timeline of Brooklyn
Ando228 (talk) 15:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Section order

message: I found that the entry for Fort Greene, Brooklyn has a detailed history section. Some other neighborhoods with history up through the 19th century: 
Bedford, Brooklyn; 
Bushwick, Brooklyn; 
Coney Island; 
Crown Heights, Brooklyn; 
East Williamsburg, Brooklyn; 
Gravesend, Brooklyn; 
Greenpoint, Brooklyn; 
Park Slope, Brooklyn; 
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Ando228 (talk) 04:03, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Brooklyn neighborhoods with detailed histories

message: The "Timeline" section looks like the product of careful work. However, its large size has made minor difficulties for me, or not so minor when viewing on my smartphone. WP:SIZE suggests it might make bigger difficulties for some readers. I'd like to propose a few improvements:
#Separate the Timeline into its own article. 
#For items which have an article, shrink their bullet to a modest sentence or two, including link(s). 
#For items which aren't historic enough to be mentioned elsewhere in Wikipedia, don't mention them in the historical timeline. 
Jim.henderson (talk) 00:29, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seven times bigger