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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: 20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/04/07/20-things-you-probably/

Description: 20 facts about Brooklyn drawn from its history and illustrated with Brooklyn Collection materials.

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Title: A Day to Give Thanks

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/18/day-give-thanks/

Description: Vintage Thanksgiving materials from the Brooklyn Collection, including recipes.

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Subject:   Holidays Food

Title: A Look at the Year Ahead: Brooklyn Connections

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/08/22/look-year-ahead-brooklyn/

Description: An overview of the new year of Brooklyn Connections curriculum and programs.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: A School for Girls and One for Boys

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/02/04/school-girls-and-one-boys/

Description: The history of Girls' High School and Boys' High School.

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Subject:   School History

Title: All Fools' Day

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/02/all-fools-day/

Description: Documentation of April Fool's Day's past in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Holidays

Title: Brooklyn Connections 2014-2015 Wrap-Up

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/06/23/brooklyn-connections-2014/

Description: An overview of the Brooklyn Connections program's academic year.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: Brooklyn Connections Continues to Connect Students to Local History

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/08/23/brooklyn-connections/

Description: An update on the Brooklyn Connections program, which received new funding.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: Brooklyn Connections Professional Developments

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/11/17/brooklyn-connections/

Description: A schedule of professional development events for Brooklyn teachers. Topics include Civil Rights, food history, teaching LGBTQ topics and creating National History Day projects.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: Brooklyn Olympians

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/07/26/brooklyn-olympians/

Description: Olympians from Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Sports

Title: Brooklyn Schools: A Look at Ephemera and More

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/08/08/brooklyn-schools-look/

Description: Exploring resources for school history in the Brooklyn Collection.

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Subject:   School History

Title: Brooklyn's Ice Palace

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/10/25/brooklyns-ice-palace/

Description: A look at the Brooklyn Ice Palace, an ice skating rink in Brooklyn from 1917-1955 where ice skaters trained and ice hockey teams practiced.

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Subject:   Sports

Title: Byrd's Eye View

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/05/24/byrds-eye-view/

Description: Brooklyn Eagle coverage of Richard Evelyn Byrd, the scientist and explorer, including his flight over the North Pole with Brooklyn resident and aviator Floyd Bennett.

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Subject:   People Science

Title: Class of 2012

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/08/class-2012/

Description: The annual year-end celebration for the Brooklyn Connections program.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: Down with washtubs!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/11/07/down-washtubs/

Description: The history of Public Bathhouse no. 7, now the Brooklyn Lyceum, in Park Slope.

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Subject:   Architecture Park Slope

Title: Fall Educator Programs

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/09/17/fall-educator-programs/

Description: Two programs for educators put on by Brooklyn Connections.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: Gotta go to Mo's

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

Description: The history of Modell's Sporting Goods in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Industry

Title: Kings Castle

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/06/21/kings-castle/

Description: The history of chess in Brooklyn, including grandmaster Bobby Fischer.

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Subject:   Sports

Title: Leaving Brooklyn: Fuhgeddaboudit!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/08/03/leaving-brooklyn/

Description: A farewell post from Christine Szeluga, manager of Brooklyn Connections.

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Subject:   Library staff Brooklyn Connections

Title: Most Beautiful Grandmother

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/02/22/most-beautiful/

Description: Coney Island's "Most Beautiful Grandmother Contest."

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Subject:   Coney Island

Title: Not my family's story

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/04/17/not-my-familys-story/

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

Title: Philip's of Coney Island

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/08/08/philips-coney-island/

Description: The history of Philip's Candy Store in Coney Island.

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Subject:   Coney Island Food

Title: Putting Out Fires Since 1865!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2015/05/01/putting-out-fires-1865/

Description: The history of firefighting in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Civil Services

Title: Spring Teacher Professional Developments

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/02/27/spring-teacher/

Description: Two free professional development events for teachers: Civil Rights in Brooklyn with Brian Purnell, and a tour of Greenwood Cemetery.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections Civil Rights Cemeteries

Title: Summing Up a School Year with Brooklyn Connections

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2014/06/24/summing-school-year/

Description: A overview of Brooklyn Connections's academic year.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: Teacher Professional Developments

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/11/27/teacher-professional/

Description: Professional development workshops with Brooklyn Connections.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections

Title: The Chewing Gum King

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

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

Title: The Flying Dutchman

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/01/06/flying-dutchman/

Description: The history of long-running Brooklyn school Erasmus Hall, a partner with the Brooklyn Connections program.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections School History

Title: To Number a School

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/12/20/number-school/

Description: The history of PS 26, among other schools.

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Subject:   School History

Title: Welcome to MS 57

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2012/09/25/welcome-ms-57/

Description: The history of Middle School 57 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a partner with the Brooklyn Connections program.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections School History Bedford-Stuyvesant

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