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August 09, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes
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A Harlem coal chute cover has a Brooklyn company listed on it:
The company - J. S. & G. F. Simpson - also listed an address: 28-36 Rodney St. Brooklyn, E.D. which is no longer industrial, but 1990’s, low-density residential:
What on earth did “Brooklyn, E.D.” refer to?
It turns out the E.D. was an acronym for Eastern District:
But, what exactly is this Eastern District? Armbruster explained that during an earlier Kings County consolidation, the towns of Williamsburg, Bushwick and North Brooklyn were combined into the Eastern District. There also was a Western District that “included the remainder of the enlarged city” which was the portion of Kings County that comprised the City of Brooklyn. But that’s not all. There was a “sparsely settled” 9th ward between the two districts and a 26th ward that “was never a part of the Western District, but a town by itself until annexed in 1886 by the late City of Brooklyn.” Clear as mud!
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