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Description: Guest post. Part four of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue, this one on the avenue's scrap yards and the people who work in them.

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Subject: Industry , Neighborhood history, Photography, Sunset Park, South Slope

Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo

Date: 2017 June 30, 2017

Title: Cleaning Up the Waterfront with N.A.G.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/03/05/cleaning-waterfront-nag/

Description: In the early 1990s, residents of Greenpoint and Williamsburg were fed up with the city neglecting their neighborhoods. A number of grassroots community organizations sprang up in response to various issues, including development, community board planning processes, and excessive litter. One such organization was Neighbors Against Garbage (N.A.G.), founded in 1994 in a local church basement.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Neighborhood history, Industry

Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith

Date: 2021 March 5, 2021

Title: One Bedford-Stuyvesant Block's Industrial Past

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/03/16/one-bedford-stuyvesant/

Description: This week’s Photo of the Week takes us to Kosciusko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the block that forms the northern boundary of Herbert Von King Park (known in the 19th century as Tompkins Park).

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Subject: Bedford-stuyvesant, Industry , Neighborhood history, Photo of the Week

Creator: Cecily Dyer

Date: 2021 March 16, 2021

Title: Hat Works of Knox the Hatter

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/07/23/hat-works-knox-hatter-0/

Description: Today we're looking at the imposing apartment building at 369-413 St. Marks Avenue that began life as the world’s largest hat factory. Founded by Irish immigrant Charles Knox, the Knox Hat Company began operations in lower Manhattan, selling beaver hats in a small store he opened in 1838.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Neighborhood history, Industry , Crown Heights

Creator: Sarah Quick

Date: 2021, 2021 July 23

Title: An Icy Summer

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/08/02/icy-summer/

Description: This week's POTW depicts a horse-drawn wagon from the American Ice Company delivering ice to the Emmanual House in Brooklyn, a local civic center run by the Young Men's League of the Emmanuel Baptist Church. During the early 1900s, the American Ice Company was the largest supplier of natural ice to New York City.

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Subject: Industry , Photo of the Week

Creator: Anna Schwartz

Date: 2021 August 2, 2021

Title: April 1, 1949: A Day in Brooklyn Labor History

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/09/07/april-1-1949-day-brooklyn/

Description: On April 1, 1949, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle was full of news of workers on strike, including taxi drivers, radio operators, and brewery workers.

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Subject: Industry , Photo of the Week, Alcohol, Brooklyn Eagle

Creator: Michelle Montalbano

Date: 2021 September 7, 2021

Title: A Legacy in Lead

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/09/13/legacy-lead/

Description: In honor of back-to-school, a brief history of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Factory in Brooklyn.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Industry , Greenpoint

Creator: Sarah Quick

Date: 2021, 2021 September 13

Title: The Soap Fat Collector

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/09/20/soap-fat-collector/

Description: This week’s image depicts a local soap fat collector. Taken by amateur photographer George Bradford Brainerd in the 1870s, we see a man carrying a large tin pail on his back.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, People, Industry

Creator: Anna Schwartz

Date: 2021, 2021 September 20

Title: Macaroni-Making Machine

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/01/10/macaroni-making-machine/

Description: This photograph from circa 1932 shows an "Automatic Short Paste Drying Unit," which promised pasta-making "From Press to Package without Handling." The machine itself was manufactured by the Consolidated Macaroni Machine Corporation at 156-166 Sixth Street in Gowanus.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Food, Industry , Gowanus

Creator: Alice Griffin

Title: Hell's Gate Explosion

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/01/17/hells-gate-explosion/

Description: On October 10, 1885 the ground in Princeton, New Jersey shook. There was no great earthquake. It was, instead, the largest planned detonation prior to the atomic bomb. In order to clear obstacles from Hell Gate - a narrow tidal strait in the East River -- and free up ship traffic the US Army Corp of Engineers started blowing up several obstructions in the waters.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Industry , Urban Development

Creator: Ally Malinenko

Date: 2022 January 17, 2022

Title: The Eberhard Faber Pencil Company

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/04/01/eberhard-faber-pencil/

Description: A brief history of the Eberhard Faber pencil company, at one time headquartered in Brooklyn.

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Subject: Industry , Urban Development

Creator: Sarah Quick

Date: 2022 April 1, 2022

Title: Risky Business: October 1878

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/10/03/risky-business-october/

Description: John A. Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge was eight years into construction under the direction of his son and chief engineer, Washington A. Roebling. In 1878 risk takers could (with special permission) walk the narrow wooden footbridge that spanned the completed towers, swaying precariously over the East River.

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Subject: Bridges, Industry , Photo of the Week

Creator: Liza Katz

Date: 2022 October 3, 2022

Title: Happy May Day from this Brighton Beach Fishmonger

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/01/happy-may-day-brighton/

Description: George Cohen, a Bronx-born photographer, donated a selection of his photographs of 1980s Brighton Beach to the Brooklyn Public Library in 2013. On this May Day qua International Workers' Day, I found a worker cutting a fish for sale in Brighton Beach in 1987.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Industry

Creator: Kevina Tidwell

Date: 2023 May 1, 2023

Title: A Horse-Drawn Toilet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/05/30/horse-drawn-toilet/

Description: This Photo of the Week highlights what at first seems to be a perfectly ordinary horse-drawn carriage. However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that the team of six is not drawing a carriage, but rather a toilet.

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Subject: Animals, Photo of the Week, Industry , Transportation

Creator: Liza Katz

Date: 2023 May 30, 2023

Title: Brooklyn Army Terminal

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/06/12/brooklyn-army-terminal/

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

Title: Cumberland Street Hospital's magnet

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/07/24/cumberland-street/

Description: Is this modern art or Cumberland Street Hopital's 500-pound, $280 electric magnet? This Photo of the Week, originally published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in April 1924, shows a demonstration of the magnet's considerable power.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Health, Industry

Creator: Alice Griffin

Date: 2023 July 24, 2023

Title: Telephone Booth: From the Vaults

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/08/07/telephone-booth-vaults/

Description: The photo of the week depicts a yard worker making a phone call in a telephone booth at the Brooklyn Navy Yard around 1965.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Industry

Creator: Ally Malinenko

Date: 2023 August 7, 2023

Title: National Pasta Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/10/16/national-pasta-day

Description: If you lived in Brooklyn in 1917, there’s a chance your macaroni was produced by a machine made in the I. Defrancisci & Son Macaroni Machines factory, located at 219 Morgan Avenue. Today’s Photo of the Week shows the factory and employees, including Joseph and Ignazio DeFrancisci.

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Subject: Photo of the Week, Food, Industry

Creator: Sarah Quick

Date: 2023 October 16, 2023

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2008/12/09/romance-cordage/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/05/14/miss-doggetts-masterpiece/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/06/25/saw-book-quarterly/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/07/16/beauty-and-beer/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/08/31/wf-mangels-and-his/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/12/22/season-giving/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2009/12/29/speaking-tubes-and/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/01/20/distilling-brooklyn/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/02/18/brooklyn-how-sweet-it/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/03/17/thats-using-your-noodle/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/04/21/little-known-brooklyn/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/06/02/little-known-brooklyn/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/06/24/borough-homes-and-oysters/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/07/18/whats-cards/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/08/31/ephemera-1-locks-olives/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/02/little-known-brooklyn/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/16/ephemera-2-all-hail/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/09/22/little-known-brooklyn/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/09/night-lights-went-out/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/13/gimme-coffee/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/06/ew-bliss-co-torpedoes-and/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/11/when-boros-milk-vanished/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/01/21/pfizer-family-products/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/02/22/days-wine-and-onions/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/03/10/brooklyns-vitaphone/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/05/how-sweet-it-was/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/08/05/peter-cooper-and-his-glue/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/07/chewing-gum-king/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/09/20/gotta-go-mos/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/10/17/philanthropist-his-oil/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/12/02/its-whats-dinner/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/04/07/when-brooklyn-was-briney/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2016/05/04/brooklyns-paper-trail/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2016/06/10/children-dump/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/06/30/third-avenue-series-scrap/

Title: Cleaning Up the Waterfront with N.A.G.

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/03/05/cleaning-waterfront-nag/

Title: One Bedford-Stuyvesant Block's Industrial Past

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/03/16/one-bedford-stuyvesant/

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URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/07/23/hat-works-knox-hatter-0/