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Description: Profile of the architect Axel Hedman.
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Subject: People, Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2008, 2008 November 28
Description: An addition to the Union Temple on Eastern Parkway that was never built.
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Subject: Architecture , Urban Development
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2008, 2008 December 23
Description: Menu in the Ephemera Collection with a photograph of a bathhouse thought to have been designed by Axel Hedman.
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Subject: Ephemera Collection, Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 January 30
Description: Buildings that were moved in Brooklyn, in particular the Lefferts Homestead, moved by Thatcher & Sons and documented in the Brooklyn Collection's Thatcher Collection.
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Subject: Architecture , Prints Collection, People, Urban Development
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 February 19
Description: Historic bath houses in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009, 2009 February 24
Description: The history and restoration of Loew's King's Theater in Flatbush.
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Subject: Theaters, Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 February 25, 2010
Description: The Pope family and their lavish mansion in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
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Subject: Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2010 August 7, 2010
Description: More on arctic explorer Frederick Cook, including his still-standing Bushwick mansion.
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Subject: Architecture , People, Bushwick
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2011 May 16, 2011
Description: Thomas Adams, who invented a new kind of chewing gum and produced it in Brooklyn, and his mansion in Park Slope.
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Subject: People, Industry, Architecture
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2011 September 7, 2011
Description: Students from the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and Preservation Planning talk about their research uncovering the rich architectural history of Bushwick Avenue, and the preservation plan they produced as a result.
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Subject: Events, Architecture , Bushwick, Urban Development
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2011 October 20, 2011
Description: The history of Public Bathhouse no. 7, now the Brooklyn Lyceum, in Park Slope.
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Subject: Architecture , Park Slope
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2011 November 7, 2011
Description: 19th century photos of the Peet family and their residence.
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Subject: Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2012 June 4, 2012
Description: Exploring the life and work of architect Frank Freeman.
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Subject: Architecture , People
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 July 18, 2012
Description: A workshop on Introduction to Buildings Research.
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Subject: Events, Architecture
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2013 February 11, 2013
Description: An album containing exterior and interior shots of a grand house on Shore Road near Fort Hamilton, called "Shore Acres."
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Subject: Bay Ridge, Architecture
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2013 May 20, 2013
Description: An exhibit at the Brooklyn Collection, "Preservation and Progress," on architecturally and historically significant buildings in Brooklyn, both gone and still standing. Co-curated by Brooklyn Connections student interns.
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Subject: Exhibits, Brooklyn Connections, Architecture
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015 September 10, 2015
Description: A look at the history of Brooklyn's armory buildings and their varied uses.
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Subject: Architecture , Neighborhood history, War, Sports
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2020 February 12, 2020
Description: Our photo of the week features the Fulton Ferry House that once stood where Old Fulton Street met the water’s edge in Brooklyn Heights, one in a series of ferry buildings on that site.
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Subject: Architecture , Transportation, Photo of the Week
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 February 26, 2021
Description: Today’s photo of the week takes us to Park Slope, where a residence locally known as "the old tower house” once stood on the south side of 8th street between 5th and 6th avenues.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Park Slope, Architecture
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 April 19, 2021
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week features a busy corner in Brownsville, 1501 Pitkin Avenue, where the stately Loew’s Pitkin Theater took up the entirety of the block between Legion Street and Saratoga Avenue.
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Subject: Theaters, Photo of the Week, Architecture , Brownsville
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021, 2021 April 26
Description: A brief history of the construction of Brooklyn's Central Library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture , Library history, Neighborhood history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 May 21, 2021
Description: Borough Hall, originally City Hall, is located in the heart of downtown Brooklyn and is one of the borough's oldest public buildings. It was also home to two highly contentious 900 square foot murals, whose final fate remains unknown today.
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Subject: Arts, Architecture , Photo of the Week
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2021 June 14, 2021
Description: As a summer heat wave kicks off the last few days of Pride Month, our Photo of the Week takes us to an elegant indoor pool at the Hotel St. George in Brooklyn Heights.
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Subject: LGBTQ history, Architecture , Photo of the Week
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 June 28, 2021
Description: Prospect Park's Litchfield Villa and its apparent haunting.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture , Prospect Park
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 October 7, 2021
Description: A historic photo of Prospect Park's Endale Arch compared to its 2020 restoration.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Prospect Park, Architecture
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021, 2021 November 29
Description: Photographs of the Kismet Temple, now a Baptist church, in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture , Neighborhood history, Bedford-stuyvesant
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 December 20, 2021
Description: Visitors to the Center for Brooklyn History on Pierrepont Street sometimes ask if the building served another purpose before it was a historical society. The answer is—it was always a historical society! Built in 1881, the Queen Anne-style building was designed by architect George Browne Post.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture , Library history
Creator: Deborah Tint, Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 February 15, 2022
Description: In 1983, the Cooper Square Committee called for a new plan, the details of which were published in The Cooper Square Plan: Report for Discussion, October 15, 1986, part of the Ronald Schiffman Collection on the Pratt Center for Community Development.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Urban Development, Architecture , Events
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 March 21, 2022
Description: Today's Photo of the Week takes us to one of the city's first housing developments for veterans and their families. These semi-cylindrical structures made of corrugated steel sheets, known as Quonset huts, were erected along the Belt Parkway in the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Canarsie and Gravesend.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Housing, Architecture
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 May 23, 2022
Description: In 1972, the corporation took over and renovated this stately building as part of the creation of Restoration Plaza, a community hub in the heart of Bed-Stuy.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Architecture
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2022 June 6, 2022
Description: When artist and trained architect Miklos Suba (1880-1944) immigrated to NYC in 1924, he was confronted with a starkly different cityscape compared to his native Hungary.
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Subject: Arts, Photo of the Week, Architecture
Creator: Anna Schwartz
Date: 2022 September 2, 2022
Description: Can you guess where this week's Photo of the Week was taken? "Referred to as 'the hole' by library personnel," this cavernous space was the sub-basement of our very own Central Library.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Library history, Architecture
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 September 26, 2022
Description: The Elephantine Colossus was an elephant-shaped hotel attraction located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Coney Island from 1885 through 1896.
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Subject: Coney Island, Architecture , Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko, Dan Brenner
Date: 2022 October 10, 2022
Description: This photo of the week shows the sanctuary interior of Kane Street Synagogue in Cobble Hill in 1934. The building was constructed in 1855 as a Middle Reformed Protestant Dutch Church.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Jewish history, Architecture , Religion
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 January 23, 2023
Description: Today’s Photo of the Week shows the interior of the Brooklyn Army Terminal (BAT), a sprawling complex spanning 95 acres on the Sunset Park waterfront.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture , Industry
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2023 June 12, 2023
Description: In 1892, the Brooklyn Fire Department opened its headquarters at 365-67 Jay Street, located between Myrtle Avenue and Willoughby Street in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights.
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Subject: Architecture , Photo of the Week
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2023 June 26, 2023
Description: Part of the original design by George B. Post, the clock tower has been a part of the building since its construction between the years of 1878 and 1881. However, the clock tower was never installed with an actual mechanism for the clock and has therefore never worked.
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Subject: Library history, Opening the Pocket Doors, Architecture
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 August 21, 2023
Description: If you've visited the Othmer Library, you might have noticed the large stained glass lunettes (arched windows) on the gallery level. These are original to the space, but did you know there used to be more stained glass features throughout the building?...an even greater mystery lies in the identity of the artist who crafted these stained glass pieces. To date, the building records have yet to reveal the artist's name, but there is a probable candidate.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history, Architecture
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 November 6, 2023
Description: In 1868, when the former Long Island Historical Society (LIHS) first purchased the plot of land intended for their new, permanent home, there was a plethora of possibilities.
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Subject: Opening the Pocket Doors, Library history, Architecture
Creator: Katherine Sorresso
Date: 2023 November 15, 2023
Description: In 2018, the New York Times published a story about an unusual Carroll Gardens brownstone for sale. 12 Second Place had been painstakingly restored during the brownstone revival movement of the 1960s and 70s, and had been owned by the same couple, Jane and Thor Rinden, ever since. Moreover, the Rindens had documented their five-year renovation process (1968-1973) in a charming and intimate scrapbook filled with photographs and memories.
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Subject: Housing, Architecture , Arts, Clothing, Carroll Gardens
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2024 February 5, 2024
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