Take a Virtual Walk in Brooklyn, Before It Was a Global Brand

"Officially incorporated in 1834, Brooklyn was already the third largest city in America by the Civil War. Just over a century later it was in shambles, hemorrhaging jobs. Now it’s a global brand, a glorious, complex megalopolis of thriving streets, gentrification and poverty, its booming neighborhoods illuminated by a million twee Edison bulbs, its enduring emblems a parachute jump and an old, beloved roller coaster. ... Historian-in-residence for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, he is the author of 'Brooklyn: The Once and Future City.' This is the latest in a series of (edited, condensed) virtual walks with architects and others. ... He proposed a stroll from Brooklyn Heights to the gates of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The walk meandered through Cadman Plaza Park and Vinegar Hill — a couple of miles, more or less, covering a few hundred years. ..."
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Vinegar Hill was a neighborhood of three-story houses with ground floor shops.