Looking across the bay from Williamsburg BridgeHistoric row houses on Vanderbilt Avenue in the nearby neighborhood.
Wallabout Bay is a small body of water in Upper New York Bay along the northwest shore of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, between the present Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges. It is located opposite Corlear's Hook in Manhattan, across the East River to the west. Wallabout Bay is now the site of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The nearby neighborhood of Wallabout, dating back to the 17th century, is adjacent to the bay. The neighborhood is a mixed use area with an array of old wood-frame buildings, public housing, brick townhouses, and warehouses; it contains the historic Lefferts-Laidlaw House, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
The name of this curved bay on the western end of "Lang Eylandt" (Long Island) comes from the Dutch "Waal bocht", which means "Walloons' Bend", named for its first European settlers: the Walloons, from what is today Wallonia.
^"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
704361°N 73.97444°W / 40.704361; -73.97444 WallaboutBay is a small body of water in Upper New York Bay along the northwest shore of the New York City...
City, New York, U.S. The Navy Yard is located on the East River in WallaboutBay, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlears Hook in Manhattan...
the stretch from The Battery to the former Brooklyn Navy Yard near WallaboutBay, a run of about 1,000 yards (910 m), was 40 feet (12 m) deep, the long...
Gibraltar, others at Bermuda (the Dromedary), at Antigua, off Brooklyn in WallaboutBay, and at Sheerness. Other hulks were anchored off Woolwich, Portsmouth...
Wallabout Market was the second largest market located at WallaboutBay in Brooklyn, New York City. Wallabout gained its name from the French-speaking...
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a prison. He was later moved to a brig serving as a prison ship in WallaboutBay. While in captivity, Woodhull's wounds became infected and his health...
infamous HMS Jersey, were placed by British authorities in the waters of WallaboutBay off the shores of Brooklyn, New York as a place of incarceration for...
plantation on Manhattan Island, before eventually removing to Brooklyn's WallaboutBay, where he was one of the earliest settlers and founded a prominent Brooklyn...
Revolutionary War soldiers who died in British prison ships were located in WallaboutBay (near the Brooklyn Navy Yard). Davis announced that the Society was...
prisoners of war who died while being held on British prison ships in WallaboutBay during the American Revolutionary War. Across the street from its DeKalb...
Army. Only women were allowed to visit the prison ships, anchored at WallaboutBay. Burgin rowed a boat to the ships to deliver clothing, medicine, blankets...
Lenape Native Americans, until the 17th century. The area close to the WallaboutBay was called Rinnegokonk. At that time the Dutch arrived, gained control...
majority of captured American prisoners of war aboard prison ships in WallaboutBay, across the East River in Brooklyn. More Americans died from neglect...
majority of captured American prisoners of war aboard prison ships in WallaboutBay, across the East River in Brooklyn. More Americans lost their lives...
British prison ships begin in WallaboutBay, New York Staten Island Peace Conference (September 11) Landing at Kip's Bay (September 15) Battle of Harlem...
of American Revolutionary War, and prison ships housed thousands at WallaboutBay.[citation needed] In the early 19th century, the Erie Canal (often used...
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