1900 Map of Brooklyn

About this map

Greenwood Cemetery and Prospect Park anchor a landscape in transition as the urban grid of Brooklyn expands eastward toward the salt marshes of Grassy Bay. This late nineteenth-century documentation captures the densifying settlements of New Utrecht, Gravesend, and Flatlands before they were fully subsumed by the twentieth-century metropolis. The Long Island Railroad and the New York and Rockaway Beach Railroad provide the skeletal structure for this growth, cutting through established communities like Winfield Junction and Woodhaven.