Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature. View from the Brooklyn Bridge tower east over Vinegar Hill.

Like most of the older buildings in Vinegar Hill, these three-story brick buildings have two floors of apartments over a storefront. They were all built in a simple Greek Revival style, with stone ...

The Battle of Vinegar Hill is the name given to the clash between convicts and soldiers on Monday March 5 1804 following on from the Castle Hill uprising the night before. It was the first battle ...

The town reservoir on the hill Was built in the twenties. If you lifted a round metal covering And dropped a stone, you could Hear it plonk into the depths. There were small hollows in the rocks That, ...