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Description: The history of the Verrazano-Narrows bridge on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
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Subject: Bridges
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2015, 2015 April 17
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 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: A Pride Month post on the history of Brooklyn's LGBTQ+ communities.
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Subject: LGBTQ history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2018 May 25, 2018
Description: Todays Photo of the Week is a cover of sheet music entitled "Mid Flame and Smoke: a descriptive song of the burning of the Brooklyn Theater."
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Entertainment
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 December 5, 2022
Description: For this month's blog post we thought we might take a peek into the collection, looking at the Thall and Lopez family papers and photographs. The collection consists of documents, ephemera, and photographs related to several generations of the Thall and Lopez families of Canarsie, Brooklyn.
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Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2024 March 1, 2024
Description: Happy Black History Month, Brooklyn fans! Today we're going to spend time with the American pianist, lyricist, and composer of ragtime, jazz, and popular music, Eubie Blake.
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Subject: Black history, People, Arts, Entertainment
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022, 2022 February 1
Description: May is Jewish American Heritage Month and to celebrate I thought we could take a closer look at the Eugenie Fribourg Family Photographs and Ephemera Collection.
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Subject: Jewish history, Women
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 May 1, 2023
Description: Rubin Jacobs opened Ruby’s in 1975 and it has since become a mainstay as the headquarters for both the Mermaid Parade and the Polar Bear Club.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Coney Island, Neighborhood history
Creator: Ally Malinenko , Julie May
Date: 2023 November 13, 2023
Description: Happy Black History Month! Today's Photo of the Week is from the Anthony Geathers photograph collection, which consists of about 66 images taken in 2020 during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations throughout Brooklyn.
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Subject: Black history, Photography, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2024 February 5, 2024
Description: A Black History month post about Ms. Hattie Carthan, a community leader and environmentalist in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: People, Women, Neighborhood history, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Black history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2017 February 8, 2017
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
Description: The science fiction writer Isaac Asimov's roots in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Literature, People
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2019, 2019 December 27
Description: Poet Hart Crane and his time in Brooklyn.
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Subject: People, Literature
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2015 April 27, 2015
Description: This week's photo is of Inman's Casino, which was located on the Bowery of Coney Island.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Coney Island, Entertainment
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021, 2021 August 31
Description: Brooklyn Historical Society is fortunate to have several fine art photographers represented in the photography collections, including Jacob Mann, a fine art photographer and painter based in Brooklyn. The photo of the week depicts a sunrise on Brighton Beach taken by Mann in 2009.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Photography, Brighton Beach
Creator: Ally Malinenko , Tess Colwell
Date: 2022 August 15, 2022
Description: For this Photo of the Week, we are highlighting the work of Jamel Shabazz, a Brooklyn photographer who picked up his first camera at the age of fifteen.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Shabazz, Jamel, Photography, Black history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022 April 27, 2022
Description: The photo of the week depicts a kindergarten class in Fort Greene Park around 1910.
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Subject: Children, Photography, Photo of the Week, Social Welfare
Creator: Ally Malinenko , Tess Colwell
Date: 2022, 2022 June 10
Description: A look back at an era when everybody in Brooklyn moved on the same day of the year: May 1st.
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Subject: Housing
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2020 May 5, 2020
Description: Today's Photo of the Week is from the Daniel Berry Austin collection. Austin was an amateur photographer whose subjects often included farms and landscapes. This photo, of one of the buffalo's at the Prospect Park Zoo, was taken in 1902.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 September 18, 2023
Description: Today's Photo of the Week comes from our Brooklyn Jewish History Project. This is Fritzie Abadi (Hidary) on a Syrian cooking day, testing her recipe.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Food, Jewish history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 February 6, 2023
Description: This is a rendering of Steve Brodie a resident of Manhattan and former newsboy who claimed to have jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge and lived. The bridge, then called the East River Bridge had just recently been completed in 1883 and on July 23, 1886, Brodie took the plunge. Or did he?
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Subject: People, Brooklyn Bridge, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021, 2021 July 19
Description: A Black History Month post on Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the third black physician in the United States.
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Subject: Women, Black history
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2018 January 25, 2018
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
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 week's Photo of the Week highlights the work of Lucille Fornasieri Gold, a Brooklyn photographer.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Photography, Children
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2022, 2022 March 14
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: To celebrate the return of baseball season, today's Photo of the Week is of Ralph Branca, the man who became famous for what would be called The Shot Heard Round the World.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports, Baseball
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 April 10, 2023
Description: For this week's Photo of the Week we are rolling back the clock to 1980 and we're strapping on our skates for a cruise around the dance floor of the Empire Roller Disco on Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Sports, Photography
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2023 June 5, 2023
Description: This is a shot of fans from Game 1 of the World Series pitting the New York Yankees against Brooklyn's own beloved Dodgers. 73,365 eager fans packed Yankee Stadium that Tuesday afternoon.
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Subject: Sports, Baseball, Photo of the Week
Creator: Ally Malinenko
Date: 2021 March 30, 2021
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