The Williamsburgh Savings Bank was an important institution in a borough that has had the same boundaries as Kings County since what year?
Williamsburgh Savings Bank The Williamsburgh Savings Bank was an important institution in Brooklyn, New York, from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries. A series of bank mergers brought it into the HSBC group late in the 20th century. Williamsburgh Savings Bank opened the building in 1875. It is best remembered for two imposing headquarters buildings still standing, the domed original at 175 Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, designed by George B. Post, and the later Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower.
Kings Island (California) Kings Island is an island in the Old River (California) in the south Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California, fifteen kilometres southwest of Stockton. The small 3.5 ha island is the smallest of a cluster of delta islands including Eucalyptus Island, Widdows Island, Victoria Island (California), and Coney Island, adjacent to Clifton Court Forebay. At 1 metre below sea level with the surrounding waters kept a bay by a levee system, the island is accessible only by the one road from the Clifton Court levee or by boat.