COUNTY TOWNS AS CITY WARDS; ANNEXATION GREATEST EVENT IN HISTORY OF BROOKLYN. Flatbush, New-Utrecht, Gravesend, and Flatlands Will Make City's Population a Million -- Nearly $100,000 a Year Can Be Saved -- Long-Existing Abuses to be Rectified -- Greater New-York the Logical Sequence of Greater Brooklyn.
Annexation of the Kings County towns to Brooklyn is practically an accomplished fact. The first great step toward the creation of "The Greater New-York" is assured by the action of the Legislature which has just adjourned.
April 28, 1894
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