Verona Street

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

Verona Street was originally Ewer Street. The name was changed sometime before 1875. Herman Sherman speculated that it was possibly renamed in deference to a large number of Italians in the area who came from Verona.

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This Item is related to Item: Red Hook Lane: Heritage Trail

Sources:

  • Dikeman, J.  The Brooklyn Compendium, Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Common Council.  1870.  https://books.google.com/books?id=jvpHAQAAMAAJ (accessed 2016)

     Sherman, Herman. "Red Hook Place-Names." Graduate Thesis, Brooklyn College, 1965.

Published on Feb 18, 2016. Last updated on May 19, 2018.

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