Illustrations
Frontispiece. “They Don’t Grow in Manhattan!”
1.1. New York City and Brooklyn in 1767
1.2. Francis Guy, Winter Scene in Brooklyn
1.3. Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont
1.4. Nineteenth-century mansions and row houses in Brooklyn Heights
1.5. St. Ann’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Washington Street
1.6. First Presbyterian Church, Cranberry Street
2.1. New York City and Brooklyn in 1834
2.2. Aerial view of the Atlantic Basin in 1846
2.3. Nineteenth-century townhouses in South Brooklyn
2.5. The consolidated City of Brooklyn in 1856
2.7. The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Montague Street
2.8. Anniversary Day in nineteenth-century Brooklyn
2.9. Church of the Pilgrims, Remsen Street
2.11. Plymouth Church, Orange Street
2.12. Henry Ward Beecher statue, Cadman Plaza
3.1. Steam ferry entering South Ferry slip
3.2. Ground-level view of the Atlantic Basin in 1851
3.3. Workers’ houses near the South Brooklyn waterfront
3.4. Weeksville house, Ralph Avenue
3.5. Brooklyn’s Sanitary Fair, 1864
4.1. Brooklyn Bridge opening celebration, May 24, 1883
4.2. Brooklyn’s transportation system
4.3. St. Mark’s Place, Bedford, in 1893
4.4. The Manhattan Beach Hotel, Coney Island
4.5. Brooklyn and the Kings County towns, 1884
4.6. Plan for Prospect Park, 1871
4.7. James S. T. Stranahan statue, Prospect Park
4.9. The Montauk Club, Park Slope
5.1. Havermeyers & Elder sugar refinery, Williamsburg
5.2. The waterfront below Brooklyn Heights in 1906
5.4. Congregation Baith Israel synagogue, Boerum Place
5.6. The Brooklyn transit strike of 1895
6.2. Jewish women and girls praying on the Williamsburg Bridge
6.3. Apartments above stores, Pitkin and Saratoga Avenues, Brownsville
6.4. Townhouses in Dyker Heights, 77th Street and 12th Avenue
6.5. Italian immigrants on Ellis Island
7.4. Flyer advertising Margaret Sanger’s Brownsville birth control clinic
7.5. Margaret Sanger and Fania Mindell in the Brownsville clinic
7.6. Adults and children in line to see “unmoral muck-raking films”
7.7. Rowhouses in Sheepshead Bay, East 23rd Street below Avenue W
7.8. Newspaper advertisement for homes in Jackson Heights, Queens County