Cyrus Smith, Former Mayor of Brooklyn
When we visited Brooklyn Borough Hall last week for Dine in Brooklyn 2007 Kick Off, we ducked into a side room full of portraits of past Brooklyn politicians. One that caught our eye was Cyrus Smith. Born in 1800, Smith was a Whig Mayor of Brooklyn from 1839 to 1841 and a member of New…
When we visited Brooklyn Borough Hall last week for Dine in Brooklyn 2007 Kick Off, we ducked into a side room full of portraits of past Brooklyn politicians. One that caught our eye was Cyrus Smith. Born in 1800, Smith was a Whig Mayor of Brooklyn from 1839 to 1841 and a member of New York state senate 2nd District from 1856 to 1857. He died in 1877 and was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery. Anyone know anything else about him?
Cyrus Smith [Political Graveyard]
brooklyn annexed the towns of Flatbush, Gravesend, New Utrecht, Flatlands and Bushwick
the brooklyn section of brooklyn?
love the historical stuff keep em coming. Was he the mayor of the brooklyn section of brooklyn?
He was reincarnated as Andy Kaufman?
I noticed that review of the conservation of six Borough Hall portraits is on the agenda for the March 12 Art Commission hearing: http://www.nyc.gov/html/artcom/downloads/pdf/3-12-07public_agenda.pdf. One-third of them are undated and unattributed. Nice to see; it’s a pretty cool collection.
yeah, yeah, yeah…fixed now
he did well to sit as mayor from 1939 if he died 1877.