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Brooklynology Blog

Collected by: Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library

Archived since: Jan, 2019

Description:

Brooklynology is the blog of the Brooklyn Collection, Brooklyn Public Library's local history division and archive.

Subject:   Blogs & Social Media Arts & Humanities Society & Culture

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Title: Preserving Black History in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/02/22/preserving-black-history/

Description: The Slave Theater (also called Slave No. 1) opened on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1984. The building, formerly a vaudeville and movie house, was owned by Judge John L. Phillips Jr., an African American Civil Court judge.

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Subject:   Black history,  Photo of the Week ,  Arts ,  Theaters

Title: The Lost Murals of Borough Hall

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/06/14/lost-murals-borough-hall/

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

Title: An Unsightly Approach

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/02/14/unsightly-approach/

Description: The Brooklyn Bridge is arguably one of the most--if not the most--iconic symbols of Brooklyn. It has been depicted in art, like Hungarian-born American artist Miklos Suba’s version above, and replicated the world over.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Arts ,  Brooklyn Bridge

Title: Windows of Rare Beauty

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/02/28/windows-rare-beauty/

Description: For today's Photo of the Week, we have this Brooklyn Eagle photograph of a spring-themed stained glass window.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Arts ,  People

Title: The World of Miklos Suba

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/09/02/world-miklos-suba/

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

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