Designated September 13, 2011
The Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District is within the Brooklyn Borough Hall neighborhood, formally known as Brooklyn City Hall. The area was greatly developed as a major downtown office district in the post-Civil War period. Development continued until the Great Depression in the 1930s. The collection of 21 building in the district remain a reminder of the fast-paced development that was so prevailed in the late 19th-early 20th century.