Creamer Street

By The Red Hook WaterStories team

Creamer Street officially opened in 1835 as Grinnell Street.
Mr. Henry Grinnell, a wealthy public spirited merchant wan an original investor in the Atlantic Dock Company.
The street was renamed in 1891 for Joseph M. Creamer, a Brooklyn Police Surgeon.

Sources:

  • Benardo, Leonard, and Jennifer Weiss. Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

     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 Jun 6, 2016. Last updated on May 19, 2018.

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