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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: 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: Emily Warren Roebling in the Press

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2013/04/18/emily-warren-roebling/

Description: An overview of Emily Warren Roebling.

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Subject:   People Women,  Brooklyn Bridge

Title: Historic Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge. An illustrated talk and book signing by John Manbeck

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/01/26/historic-photos-brooklyn/

Description: An author talk at the Brooklyn Collection by John Manbeck.

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Subject:   Events Bridges,  Brooklyn Bridge

Title: Love of Line, of Light and Shadow: The Brooklyn Bridge

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/01/02/love-line-light-and

Description: Clarinetist F. Gerard Errante commissioned a clarinet score and video from Reynold Weidenaar as a "centennial tribute to the Brooklyn Bridge" in 1982.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Brooklyn Bridge

Title: Rambunctious Brooklyn boy falls for bridge

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/05/03/rambunctious-brooklyn-boy/

Description: Photographer, writer, theater director and filmmaker Bill Powers's photographs of the Brooklyn Bridge and his boyhood in Brooklyn.

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Subject:   Bridges,  Brooklyn Bridge ,  Photography

Title: Steve Brodie Jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and Lived (Maybe?)

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/07/19/steve-brodie-jumped/

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

Title: The Bridge: a book report

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2018/08/31/bridge-book-report/

Description: Excerpts from a book report on Peter Tomasi's "The Bridge" by Brooklyn Connections intern Ashirah Newton.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Connections Bridges,  Brooklyn Bridge

Title: The Brooklyn Bridge Centennial: Party like it's 1983!

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2011/05/25/brooklyn-bridge/

Description: Documentation of the Brooklyn Bridge's 1983 centennial celebrations.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Bridge ,  Bridges

Title: The Many Faces of the Brooklyn Bridge

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2017/06/12/many-faces-brooklyn/

Description: Images of the Brooklyn Bridge from the collection, in honor of the birthday of its designer John Augustus Roebling.

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Subject:   Brooklyn Bridge ,  Bridges Photography

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