ELDERT AVENUE, Highland Park – East New York

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Though Dutch immigrants had established some homes and farms in Brownsville and East New York in the 1700s, the area did not gel as a community until the early-to-middle 1800s. East New York, whose easternmost section east of Highland Park is Cypress Hills, was developed by John R. Pitkin, a Connecticut merchant beginning in 1835, while […]

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from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2018/01/eldert-avenue-highland-park-east-new-york/