History-+Brooklyn+Eagle

-810 Bushwick Ave robbed -Home of Charles H. Reynolds, local coal dealer -police arrived after burglars had left (family in house whole time) -house "will be wired from top to bottom" -corner of DeKalb & Bushwick is "a bad one" and not well protected by police -many loiterers late at night
 * Sept 23, 1902: "Burglars in Bushwick"**

-125 years ago (~1763) New Bushwick Lane was cut for farmers in the area -overlaps in places with current Bushwick Ave -at the time of the 1854 consolidation: ---Williamsburgh = 50,000 population ---Bushwick (township) = 7,000 (including 2 villages) -1888: over 100,000 population -Bushwick deemed a "solid city" in 1888 -most houses are wood -discusses intersection of Bushwick & Jefferson ---Newtown road used to cross (Dutch settlers called it Ilet Kivis Padt) ---cluster of old houses gone down "before the march of improvement" ---some remain, distiguished by Dutch style architecture (@ Bremon & Melrose, Bushwick & Myrtle) -Bushwick & Myrtle house occupied by J. L. Nostrand, civil engineer & surveyor -further east on Bushwick, avenue is built up with "picturesque" residences and yards -east of Cedar, street being graded & paved -area from Palmetto St to Vigellus is part of old Suydam farm ---purchased by Adrian M. Suydam, present owner ---area being built up with houses ---Suydam homestead @ Woodbine & Evergreen, one of oldest residences in city! -cross streets built up as far north as Evergreen
 * Apr 15, 1888: "A Stroll Along a Road: From Bushwick to Kings Highway 100 Years Ago"**

-brochures distributed to all householders inviting them to attend church services -churches working together -two valuable overcoats stolen during a church service- reverend dismayed
 * Feb 12, 1900: "Bushwick District Revival"**

-records burned, no way to know date of Dutch Town Hall -Dutch settlement had market at Bushwick & Gates, many of the Dutch were farmers -Dutch didn't speak much English -common names in 1787: Van Raubs, Terhune, Van Brunt, Luquier, Consolyea, Debevoise, Wyckoff, & Vanderveer -Bushwick (or Boswyck) formally established in 1660 by Petrus Styvesant ---attempts to settle were made as early as 1629 -"in 1662 Bushwick contained no more than 25 dwellings" -conquest of the Dutch by the English in 1664 ---wouldn't support Dutch schools and tried to set up Episcopal church ---reps from Boswyck (Bushwick), Amersfort (Flatlands), Nolu Utrecht (New Utrecht), Miderout (Flatbush), and Breuklyn (Brooklyn) met to settle disputes in Dutch --first revolutionary measure against British rule in America! -Town House was the seat of justice (public punishments, etc.) -Bushwick was first known by the Indian name of Koskackqom (* represent obscured letters) ---Indian name of Brooklyn was Marockwaick or Merochkamckineh -Bushwick Creek was first known as Norman's Kill
 * Jul 10, 1887: "Bushwick or Boswuck: Historic Facts of an Old Town Now Merged in Brooklyn"**

-"quaint old block houses, pretty villa homes, and stately modern mansions mingle in picturesque confusiong, and mike it a charming locality for residence" -used to be a blacksmith shop at the south side of Flushing Ave, owned by Alexander Whalley -Papelye's tavern, NE corner of Flushing and Bushwick -SW corner of Bushwick & DeKalb: frame dwelling of E. S. Howard, behind which are Howard's Wire works, one of the first manufacturers in this area of Brooklyn, started ~1850s
 * Sep 30, 1894: "Up Bushwick Avenue: It is a Beautiful Residence Thoroughfare"**