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EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN 1801 BROOKLYN NAVY YARD EST. ON WALLABOUT BAY 1834 VILLAGE OF BROOKLYN BEGINS TO BREAK INTO SUB-DIVISIONS (BUSHWICK, FLATBUSH, FLATLANDS, GRAVESENT ETC. 1836 CONSTRUCTION OF BROOKLYN 1840-1850 FIRST GREAT WAVE EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION (IRELAND & GERMANY) 1860 BROOKLYN’S POPULATION BECOMES THIRD LARGES CITY IN AMERICA POPULATION = 279,122 PEOPLE 1880 SECOND GREAT WAVE 1883 BROOKLYN BRIDGE OPENS 1890 FIRST ELECTRIC TROLLY BEGINS RUNNING IN BROOKLYN 1897 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OPENS ON EASTERN PARKWAY. NOW THE BROOKLYN ART MUSEUM 1898 CITY OF BROOKLYN MERGES WITH NEW YORK CITY 1899 BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM WORLD’S FIRST CHILDREN MUSEUM OPENS 1903 WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE OPENS TO WAGONS, CARRIAGES, BICYCLES, & PEDESTRIANS. AFFECTS ETHNOCULTURAL MIGRATION PATTERNS BETWEEN WILLIAMSBURG & MANHATTAN 1908 IRT INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT, NEW YORK’S FIRST SUBWAY CONNECTS MANHATTAN & BROOKLYN 1909 MANHATTAN BRIDGE THIRD BRIDGE CONNECTING MANHATTAN & BROOKLYN 1917 BATTLESHIP ARIZONA LAUNCHED FROM BROOKLYN’S NAVY YARD 1964 VERRAZANO-NARROWS BRIDGE COMPLETED, CONNECTING ALL FIVE BOROUGHS 1966 BROOKLYN NAVY YARD CLOSES 1987 METRO TECH CENTER NEW COMMERCIAL HIGH-RISE DEVELOPMENT OPENS IN BROOKLYN 2000 BROOKLYN’S POPULATION 2,475,290 1835 DEVELOPMENT OF EAST NEW YORK FOUNDED BY MERCHANT JOHN PITKIN 1885 MANHATTAN JUNCTION APPLIED TO THE STATION, NOW JAMAICA LINE 1889 EAST NEW YORK NOW INCORPORATED INTO BROOKLYN 1990 ELEVATED TRAIN CONNECTED FULTON ST. & BROADWAY LINES TO VAN SINDEREN AVE. 1913 BROADWAY JUNCTION MANHATTAN JUNCTION WENT UNDER A NAME CHANGE 1920-1960 EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS MOVED IN, LURED BY MODERATELY PRICED ROW HOUSES, LOW RISE APARTMENT BUILDINGS & OVER STORE FRONT WALK- 1980 INDUSTRIAL PARK EST. BY NYC PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT CORP. BOUNDED BY ATLANTIC AVE, SHEFFIELD AVE, SUTTER AVE & POWELL ST. 2007 H.S. CLOSES THOMAS JEFFERSON H.S. CLOSES DUE TO EXTREMELY LOW ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE 29% - GRADUATION RATE 2% - GRADE LEVEL MATH 10% - GRADE LEVEL READING EAST NEW YORK BROOKLYN DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRATION TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION East NY Prep. Charter Ps 158 Warwick JHS 292 Margaret s. Douglas Uft Charter William H. Maxwell Career & Technical Ed. HS Trey Whitfield School NY Christian Ctr Acad. EBC HS for Public Saftey PS 332 Charles H Houston St. Michael School JHS 302 Rafael Cordero PS 89 Cypress Hills PS 290 Juan Morel Campos St. Rita School Followers of Jesus School PS 108 Sal Abbracciamento St. Peter’s Pre-k & Elem. The Little Red School House East NY Transit Technical HS PS 159 Isaac Pitkin East New York Schools 4 Block radius around the Schools Schools in East New York Major Streets Areas that do not have a school in a 4 block raduis East New York has seen it’s POPULATION 53.8% drop by from 1990-2010. POVERTY of the residents live in 70.8%
