Beautiful houses on Lincoln Place in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
In the early 1890's Flatbush was still a separate, sleepy little town
(still predominately Dutch) from Brooklyn City (which was a separate
legal entity from Manhattan). But the subway had arrived and the
handwriting was on the wall. Flatbush was consolidated into Brooklyn
(and Brooklyn into New York in 1898, just a few years later). The
Lefferts homestead (moved and now in Prospect Park for all to see)
was sold and his back acres developed into beautiful town houses
(New York's first suburb). Houses from that development, which ran
into the 19-teens and twenties) still stand and the area today is referred
to as Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
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