Forgotten NY's encyclopedic author, Kevin Walsh, lays out an exhaustive list of Brooklyn neighborhoods and how each one got its name. From the well-trod to the obscure (Georgetown, anybody?), he plumbs the historical depths of every moniker, including those that are contested. Gravesend, for example, might originate from a British seaside town or the Dutch surname s'Gravenzande. [FNY; previously]
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