Epiphany Playground

Berry St. between S. 9 St. and S. 10 St.

Brooklyn

Directions via Google Maps

This text is part of Parks’ Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.

What was here before?
Both Epiphany Church and Epiphany Park are located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg, named for surveyor (and first Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point), Colonel Jonathan Williams (1750-1815). In 1818, David Dunham (ca. 1790) launched a steam ferry service to Manhattan, which further spurred the growth of the community. Ten years later, the area was incorporated as the Village of Williamsburgh. In the following decades, industry flocked to the waterfront. Williamsburgh became so large that it was chartered as a city in 1852. Three years later, the City of Brooklyn annexed Williamsburg and dropped the “h” in the community’s name. In 1898, upon consolidation, the City of New York incorporated the City of Brooklyn as the borough of Brooklyn.

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