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Description: The history of the debate over the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, and the bridge that the Brooklyn Eagle thought should have been built instead.
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Subject: Brooklyn Eagle, Transportation , Urban Development
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009, 2009 June 11
Description: The Brooklyn Collection's exhibit of transit-related photographs, "Riding the Rails."
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Subject: Transportation , Exhibits, Photography
Creator: Olivia Morales Geaghan
Date: 2009 October 31, 2009
Description: Reflecting on 19th century ferry travel in New York.
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Subject: Transportation
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2010 April 1, 2010
Description: The story of Mrs. Elizabeth Hughes, a B.M.T. subway ticket agent who stopped a robbery at her station.
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Subject: People, Transportation , Little-Known Brooklyn Residents
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 2010 May 18, 2010
Description: The question of whether Brooklyn should have a centralized terminal for traveling to area airports.
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Subject: Transportation , Urban Development
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2011 June 23, 2011
Description: The Brooklyn Airlines Terminals and the midcentury aviation craze in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Transportation
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2011 August 4, 2011
Description: A brief history of early bicycling habits in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Transportation
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 August 10, 2011
Description: Philip Ashforth Coppola's book series Silver Connections: A Fresh Perspective on the New York Area Subway Systems.
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Subject: Arts, Transportation
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 January 4, 2012
Description: The story of Gerhard Melvin Dahl, onetime Director of the BMT (Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit) Corporation, and some of the scandal he was involved in.
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Subject: People, Transportation , Politics
Creator: Christine Szeluga
Date: 2012 April 17, 2012
Description: Using city directories to explore the history of two occupations in Brooklyn: photographer and ferryman.
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Subject: Directories, Photography, Transportation
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2019 March 11, 2019
Description: Selections from ephemera discovered in the Brooklyn Collection clipping files.
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Subject: Ephemera Collection, LGBTQ history, Animals, Library history, Transportation
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2020 March 11, 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: The Kings County Elevated Railway and its main line, popularly known as the Fulton Street “L”, rattled along Fulton Street for more than half a century. Trains originally operated by steam, and later converted to electric between the late 1890s and early 1900s.
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Subject: Transportation , Photo of the Week, Urban Development
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 June 8, 2021
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
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