The name of this small neighborhood has been around a lot longer than you might think. And it has nothing to do with vinegar. John Jackson, an Irish shipbuilder, bought a part of that land in 1791 and ...

The story: The Vinegar Hill neighborhood sandwiched between industrial Dumbo, the huge Con Ed facility and the Farragut Houses, is one of Brooklyn’s oldest neighborhoods. The landmarked areas of the ...

The story: There are very few places in Brooklyn that retain a time capsule look of what the young city of Brooklyn looked like in the 1840s. Vinegar Hill is one of them, along with parts of northern ...