About Midwood
Midwood is a neighborhood in the south-central part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The name, Midwood, derives from the Middle Dutch word, Midwout (middle woods). Settlement was begun by the Dutch in 1652; they later gave way to the English, who conquered it in 1664, but the area remained rural and undeveloped for the most part until its annexation to the City of Brooklyn in the 1890s. It became more developed in the 1920s when large middle class housing tracts and apartment buildings were built.