# Bushwick Brooklyn 1871: Farmland Before the Boom

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> Type: Image Gallery
> Date: 2026-04-29
> Description: Explore rare images of historic Bushwick farms and railroads before Brooklyn’s 1920s apartment surge. See vintage maps and photos from 1871-1916.

4 images:
Vincent F. Seyfried - The Long Island Rail Road A Comprehensive History - Vol. 1 (1961), Vincent F. Seyfried - The Long Island Rail Road A Comprehensive History - Vol. 2 (1963), Before the apartment building boom of the 1920s, there were still farms and horses to be found in Brooklyn. North from New York Avenue at East 98th Street to Union Street and Eastern Parkway. Brooklyn, New York 1916, Image from page 352 of "The American garden" (1873)