<ul id="mwARw"><li id="mwAR0"><a rel="mw:WikiLink" href="./Gravesend,_Brooklyn" title="Gravesend, Brooklyn" id="mwAR4">Gravesend</a>: in 1645, settled... by @wikipedia

Gravesend: in 1645, settled under Dutch patent by English followers of Anabaptist Deborah Moody, named for 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands, or Gravesend, England;
Brooklyn Heights: chartered as Breuckelen in 1646, after the town now spelled Breukelen, Netherlands. Breuckelen was along Fulton Street (now Fulton Mall) between Hoyt Street and Smith Street (according to H. Stiles and P. Ross). Brooklyn Heights, or Clover Hill, is where the village of Brooklyn was founded in 1816;
Flatlands: chartered as Nieuw Amersfoort in 1647;
Flatbush: chartered as Midwout in 1652;
 in 1652, named after the city of Utrecht, Netherlands; and
Bushwick: chartered as Boswijck in 1661.A dining table from the Dutch village of Brooklyn, c. 1664, in The Brooklyn Museum