Brooklyn
The fruit streets of Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, have a legend. The story goes, as recorded by the “WPA Guide to New York,” that in the decade prior to the Civil War, a local resident, whose name is given as Miss Middagh, resented her aristocratic neighbors, tore down the street signs bearing the names of the offending families, and hastily installed signs bearing the names of her favorite fruits and trees: Pineapple, Orange, Cranberry and Willow. She won and the names stayed.
Old Domino Sugar plant in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, on the waterfront in 2009. The over 140-year-old Domino Sugar Refinery, which closed in 2004 and became a city landmark in 2007, is now an 11-acre megaproject, developed by Two Trees, including Domino Park, four new buildings, and a total renovation of the interiors.
Verandah Place Mews with flowering tree in Cobble Hill Park, Brooklyn. More a mews for the horse drawn carriages of Brooklyn’s past than a proper street, Verandah Place (also sometimes spelled Veranda Place) is a block and a half long and just 20 feet wide, including the narrow sidewalk along its south side. It was created as a service alley as the area urbanized and the street grid was laid out in the years prior to the Civil War.