Bensonhurst derives its name from Arthur W. Benson, the former president of Brooklyn Gas, who in 1835 began buying farmland that formerly belonged to the Polhemus family. Between 1835 and 1850 Benson divided the farmland into lots that were sold in the following decades as part of the newly created suburb of Bensonhurst, which was annexed into the 30th Ward of Brooklyn in the 1890s. Today, Bensonhurst is bounded by
In the early 1900s, Bensonhurst became home to many Jewish and Italian immigrants; following WWII, there was an influx of immigrants from southern
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