Sports in Brooklyn became a business. The Brooklyn Bridegrooms played professional baseball at Washington Park in the convenient suburb of
Park Slope and elsewhere. Early in the next century, under their new name of Brooklyn Dodgers, they brought baseball to
Ebbets Field, beyond Prospect Park. Racetracks,
amusement parks, and
beach resorts opened in
Brighton Beach,
Coney Island, and elsewhere in the southern part of the county.
