![]() Certain portions of the original six towns were also independent municipalities for a time, before being reabsorbed.įollowing an 1894 referendum, the entire consolidated City of Brooklyn became a borough of New York City in 1898. The modern neighborhoods bearing these names are located roughly in the center of each of these original towns. The towns were, clockwise from the north: Bushwick, Brooklyn, Flatlands, Gravesend, New Utrecht, with Flatbush in the middle. These later became English settlements, and were consolidated over time until the entirety of Kings County was the unified City of Brooklyn. The original Dutch settlement of what is now Brooklyn consisted of six towns with clearly defined borders.
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