Brooklyn History: A Visit to Milestone Park
The Bridge & Tunnel Club recently visited Mileston Park in Bensonhurst. The park is named after a the oldest milestone left in New York City. Though the sandstone original is in the Brooklyn Historical Society, a granite reproduction now sits in the same place where the original was put on Kings Highway in 1741. According…
The Bridge & Tunnel Club recently visited Mileston Park in Bensonhurst. The park is named after a the oldest milestone left in New York City. Though the sandstone original is in the Brooklyn Historical Society, a granite reproduction now sits in the same place where the original was put on Kings Highway in 1741. According to Forgotten NY, it stands three feet high and has a base measuring one square foot. One side reads, 8-1/4 Miles to New York and 2-1/2 Miles to Denyse’s Ferry. The other is inscribed, 10-1/2 Miles to New York Ferry, 15 Miles to Jamaica. You learn something new every day.
Milestone Park [Bridge & Tunnel Club] GMAP
Brooklyn’s Mother Road [Forgotten NY]
If I recall correctly, the park is the site of the Van Pelt Mansion [bet you didn’t know that Linus & Lucy were from Brooklyn…) that was pulled down by Robert Moses in the early 1950’s.