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    Wallabout Market was the second largest market located at Wallabout Bay in Brooklyn, New York City. Wallabout gained its name from the French-speaking...
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    Newman's son, as manager. The Wallabout Market bakery expanded in 1909 with the addition into 1704–1705 Wallabout Market and the addition of a 16-foot...
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    York City, New York, U.S. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in Wallabout Bay, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlears Hook in Manhattan...
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    81st Street, and 18 West 37th Street. An industrial example was the Wallabout Market, designed by the architect William Tubby and constructed in 1894–1896...
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    constructed in the 19th and 20th centuries in this style, such as Wallabout Market in Brooklyn, South William Street in Manhattan, West End Collegiate...
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  • 3rd Street, North 5th Street, North 6th Street, North 9th Street, Wallabout Market (1935-1941), and Brooklyn Navy Yard (after 1941). The company maintained...
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  • Brooklyn as Drake Brothers, with a commercial bakery located at 1006 Wallabout Market in Brooklyn. The company's "Drake’s Cakes" sold pound cake by the slice...
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    1893 he was elected Mayor of Brooklyn. As Mayor, he reconstructed Wallabout Market, doubled the city's park area by adding new parks, made the initial...
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    Landmark) and the Flemish Revival style Wallabout Market (demolished) which was once the second-largest market in the world. As a member of the Architects'...
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    rights of condemnation under eminent domain, the yard took over the old Wallabout Market abutting it to the east, using the expanded space to build two additional...
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    Weights and Measures, and raised rates and increased restrictions at the Wallabout Market in Brooklyn. He served as Commissioner until 1933. In the last few...
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    majority of captured American prisoners of war aboard prison ships in Wallabout Bay, across the East River in Brooklyn. More Americans died from neglect...
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    City metropolitan area. In 1694, Jeremias Remsen purchased a farm in the Wallabout section of Kings County, which later represented the borders of Brooklyn...
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    Washington's intelligence network. On the notorious British prison ships of Wallabout Bay, more American combatants died than were killed in combat in every...
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    British set up a system of prison ships off the coast of Brooklyn in Wallabout Bay. More American patriots died there than in combat on all the battlefield...
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    Revolutionary War soldiers who died in British prison ships were located in Wallabout Bay (near the Brooklyn Navy Yard). Davis announced that the Society was...
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    Lenape Native Americans, until the 17th century. The area close to the Wallabout Bay was called Rinnegokonk. At that time the Dutch arrived, gained control...
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    E. (1895). Horrors of the prison ships: Dr. West's description of the wallabout floating dungeons, how captive patriots fared. Eagle Book Printing Department...
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    by Cripplebush, a region of thick, boggy shrub land that extended from Wallabout Creek in the south to Newtown Creek in the east. Bushwick residents called...
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  • Hill, Brooklyn Vision Zero (New York City) Wakefield, Bronx Wall Street Wallabout, Brooklyn Ward Hill, Staten Island Washington Bridge Washington Heights...
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    majority of captured American prisoners of war aboard prison ships in Wallabout Bay, across the East River in Brooklyn. More Americans lost their lives...
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    neighborhood? Maybe so! Brooklyn Heights Blog notices that Byrne's on-the-market townhouse at 14 Garden Place has gone into contract." Manbeck (2008), p...
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    north, and Cripplebush, a region of thick, boggy shrubland extending from Wallabout Creek to Newtown Creek, in the south and east, cut Bushwick Shore off...
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    their farm properties behind the Wallabout section, which gradually developed into an important produce center and market. The petition to form a new hamlet...
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    the bridge's lights were turned on for the first time. A street vendors' market opened under the Manhattan approach in mid-1904, despite opposition from...
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    278,000 square feet (25,800 m2) of retail space. The Brooklyn Terminal Market is located adjacent to Canarsie Plaza, and sells horticultural items such...
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    new Dutch settlement in the New World, Sarah Rapelje. She was born near Wallabout Bay, which later became the site of the New York (Brooklyn) Naval Shipyard...
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    Brooklyn's Wallabout Bay, and railed that the span "would have geographical and historical significance if it were known as the Wallabout Bridge". In...
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    in the borough of Manhattan, it moved to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Wallabout, gradually expanding its footprint to occupy most of a city block. In...
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    to the formation of the Lefferts Community Food Cooperative in 2009, a market that uses cooperative principles to sell socially responsible and healthy...
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