Brooklyn in those years had stlll many Dutch influences even now you can find Dutch history there.
Yes. Brooklyn was named for a town in Holland called Breukelen, or "broken land," because both had the same rocky soil (also "marsh"). I spent some of my youngest years in the East New York section of Brooklyn, which had many Dutch reminders, including Van Siclen Avenue, the elevated subway stop that I used. A Dutch Reformed Church on New Lots Avenue has the city's second-oldest graveyard, with headstones of the original Dutch settlers from the 17th Century, like Van Siclen and Van Sinderin.
