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Lynbrook, named by reversing Brooklyn
Lynbrook, New York
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The settlement was called Pearsall's Corners after a general store that served the stagecoach run out of the city. Enough of the new arrivals had come from Brooklyn that in April 1894 a referendum renamed the place by swapping the two syllables of their old home, a coinage usually credited to the railroad station master. Residents went on calling it Pearsall for years, and the village of Lynbrook was not incorporated until 1911.
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