Old South Brooklyn Entrepreneur Anson Blake 1789-1868

Old South Brooklyn Entrepreneur is far more than a financial and commercial biography of Anson Blake 1789-1868.  It provides many details of local history, not only of South Brooklyn (today’s Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Boerum Hill and Gowanus) before the Civil War, but of New York City’s economic history, including Anson Blake’s speculation in Wall Street area lands and buildings.  Blake also speculated in Upstate New York’s Black River Canal region of Oneida, Hamilton and