Tibi Eats 023 | Vinegar Hill House

72 Hudson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11201

Vinegar Hill is named for a defeat. In 1798, British forces crushed the Irish Rebellion at a hill in County Wexford, and when migrating from the area to Brooklyn the following century, the Irish named their neighborhood after it - not to mourn the loss, but to carry it. The shipwrights and dockworkers who built their rowhouses along Hudson Avenue in 181…