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Description: Guest post from Nora Almeida of Project CHART on a New York City college basketball gambling scandal in 1951.
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Subject: Sports, Crime
Creator: Nora Almeida
Date: 2011 June 9, 2011
Description: An overview of the Burton Turkus Collection, written by processing intern Abby Rubin.
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Subject: Crime
Creator: Abby Rubin
Date: 2012 August 1, 2012
Description: News coverage of pickpockets in midcentury Brooklyn.
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Subject: Crime
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2012 May 9, 2012
Description: The history of the Crow Hill Penitentiary, also known as the Kings County Penitentiary.
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Subject: Crime
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015 July 6, 2015
Description: In 1954, sixteen years before abortion was decriminalized in New York, four extortionists made it their business to blackmail doctors believed to be performing the then illegal procedure.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Politics, Crime , Health
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 July 4, 2022
Description: Today’s dramatic Photo of the Week documents a slick Flatbush burglary with an unusual conclusion.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Crime , Brooklyn Eagle
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2023 December 1, 2023
Description: A 1947 hunt for nine felons escaped from Brooklyn's Raymond Street Jail.
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Subject: Crime
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2012 March 2, 2012
Description: A midcentury crackdown on pinball and other gaming machines.
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Subject: Crime
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2013 March 22, 2013
Description: The building of Regina Pacis Votive Shrine in Borough Park and the theft and return of two crowns from its altar.
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Subject: Churches, Crime
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2009 August 5, 2009
Description: Midcentury adolescent gangs in Brooklyn.
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Subject: Crime , Children
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 July 12, 2011
Description: Prohibition and speakeasies in Brooklyn, with a focus on the Bedford Nest.
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Subject: Crime , Alcohol
Creator: Kaitlin Holt
Date: 2013, 2013 November 21
Description: "Jack the Snipper," a man who cut hair off of Brooklyn girls in the 19th century.
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Subject: Crime
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 January 24, 2011
Description: Midcentury efforts to ban switchblades.
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Subject: Crime
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2015 April 3, 2015
Description: The city's efforts to eradicate wild marijuana plants in Summer 1951.
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Subject: Crime , Nature
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: January 28 2011, 2011
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