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Description: A look at the history of Red Hook.
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Subject: Red Hook, Neighborhood history
Creator: Michelle Montalbano
Date: 2019, 2019 September 10
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 history of the Saratoga Park Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: Children, Neighborhood history , Urban development, Bedford-stuyvesant
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2020 October 30, 2020
Description: Today's photo of the week takes us to the corner of Sands and Navy Streets in Vinegar Hill, a section of Downtown Brooklyn adjacent to the Navy Yard.
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Subject: Neighborhood history , Vinegar Hill, LGBTQ history, Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 May 18, 2021
Description: Today's photo of the week comes from the recently processed Kasper Family Collection. The Kasper family lived at the Manhattan Beach Veterans Housing Project in South Brooklyn in the late 1940s.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Animals, War, Neighborhood history , Manhattan Beach
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 August 16, 2021
Description: In April 2007, a devastating Nor'easter barreled up the East Coast of the United States, bringing with it high winds and record-breaking rainfall. In the Brooklyn neighborhood of Gowanus, the destructive Nor’easter caused the Gowanus Canal to overflow.
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Subject: Weather, Gowanus, Neighborhood history , Photo of the Week
Creator: Aimee Lusty
Date: 2022 April 25, 2022
Description: Author talk at the Brooklyn Collection.
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Subject: Events, Neighborhood history , Bensonhurst, Canarsie
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2008, 2008 November 27
Description: For more than three decades, starting in the 1920s, the Mohawk Indians from the Kahnawake reservation near Montreal, Canada, made the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn their home away from home.
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Subject: Race, Neighborhood history , Native history
Creator: June Koffi
Date: 2009 November 24, 2009
Description: The "great big bookshop with a lot of stuff in it," Civic Center Book Shop was a niche but quite popular independent bookstore in Brooklyn Heights.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Neighborhood history , Brooklyn Heights, People
Creator: Gina Murrell
Date: 2022 January 28, 2022
Description: In the early 1990s, residents of Greenpoint and Williamsburg were fed up with the city neglecting their neighborhoods. A number of grassroots community organizations sprang up in response to various issues, including development, community board planning processes, and excessive litter. One such organization was Neighbors Against Garbage (N.A.G.), founded in 1994 in a local church basement.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Neighborhood history , Industry
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2021 March 5, 2021
Description: Throughout the Center for Brooklyn History’s archival collections there exists evidence of grassroots community organizations mobilizing to improve the quality of life for Brooklyn residents. Two recently processed collections provide insight into the people, programs, and services of community-driven neighborhood associations in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Greater Gowanus, meanwhile illuminating common and reoccurring issues faced by residents throughout the greater metropolitan area.
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Subject: Neighborhood history , Gowanus, Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Creator: Aimee Lusty
Date: 2022 May 2, 2022
Description: The history of the Seaside Aquarium at Coney Island.
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Subject: Coney Island, Neighborhood history
Creator: Leslie Shope
Date: 2010 January 11, 2010
Description: A talk by Wilhelmena Kelly on the history of Crown Heights and announcement of an upcoming genealogy event.
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Subject: Events, Neighborhood history , Genealogy
Creator: Joy Holland
Date: 2009 October 1, 2009
Description: Guest post by Brooklyn Connections intern. The history of Gravesend.
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Subject: Gravesend, Neighborhood history , Brooklyn Connections
Creator: Ivy Zeng
Date: 2017 September 7, 2017
Description: Photographs of the Kismet Temple, now a Baptist church, in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Architecture, Neighborhood history , Bedford-stuyvesant
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2021 December 20, 2021
Description: A look at the history of Brooklyn's armory buildings and their varied uses.
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Subject: Architecture, Neighborhood history , War, Sports
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2020 February 12, 2020
Description: A 1935 promotional brochure from the Manhattan Beach and Oriental Beach Baths prompts a deep dive into the neighborhood's history.
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Subject: Ephemera Collection, Manhattan Beach, Neighborhood history
Creator: Ivy Marvel
Date: 2011 February 9, 2011
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: It could still be a lazy summer day or have the first whiff of cooler weather. Nevertheless, let me be sure to point out that this is the corner of Cortelyou Road and Flatbush Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Flatbush, Neighborhood history
Creator: Kevina Tidwell, Julie May
Date: 2023 September 25, 2023
Description: Today we're looking at the imposing apartment building at 369-413 St. Marks Avenue that began life as the world’s largest hat factory. Founded by Irish immigrant Charles Knox, the Knox Hat Company began operations in lower Manhattan, selling beaver hats in a small store he opened in 1838.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Neighborhood history , Industry, Crown Heights
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2021, 2021 July 23
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: The almost fully processed Park Slope Civic Council records take up about 26 linear feet and one flat file drawer, and include the papers of several different creators active in the Park Slope Civic Council, such as Irene Wilson, tireless Civic News editor in the 1960s, and Carl Kaiserman, shutterbug architect and Trustee from the 1980s to 2000s.
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Subject: Park Slope, Neighborhood history
Creator: Alice Griffin
Date: 2022 May 31, 2022
Description: The story of Mary A. Logan, who barely left her neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn in her 101 years of life.
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Subject: People, Greenpoint, Neighborhood history , Little-Known Brooklyn Residents
Creator: Tara Cuthbert
Date: 3/23/2010, 2010 March 23, 2010, 2010 March 23, 2010
Description: As we enter midwinter, take in this snowy Photo of the Week of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park from 1926.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Weather, Neighborhood history , Fort Greene
Creator: Liza Katz
Date: 2024, 2024 January 29
Description: This image of a restaurant in Brighton Beach is from our small collection of photographs by Marcia Bricker.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Immigration, War, Brighton Beach, Neighborhood history
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2023 January 16, 2023
Description: This week’s Photo of the Week takes us to Kosciusko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, on the block that forms the northern boundary of Herbert Von King Park (known in the 19th century as Tompkins Park).
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Subject: Bedford-stuyvesant, Industry, Neighborhood history , Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021 March 16, 2021
Description: The history of an Irish bar in Bay Ridge.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Neighborhood history , Bay Ridge, Immigration, Our Streets Our Stories
Creator: Diana Bowers-Smith
Date: 2023 March 13, 2023
Description: Today’s photo of the week shows a moment from the opening of New Neighbors: Sunset Park's Chinese Community in June 1996.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Opening the Pocket Doors, Immigration, Neighborhood history , Sunset Park, Library history
Creator: Nicole Font
Date: 2023 January 9, 2023
Description: Today's Photo of the Week shows one block of Park Place looking noticeably different than it does today.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Park Slope, Neighborhood history
Creator: Dee Bowers
Date: 2023 September 4, 2023
Description: Exploring Ridgewood, a neighborhood at the border between Brooklyn and Queens.
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Subject: Ridgewood, Neighborhood history
Creator: Ben Gocker
Date: 2013 May 30, 2013
Description: Lady Deborah Moody, founder of Gravesend.
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Subject: Gravesend, Women, Neighborhood history
Creator: Sarah Quick
Date: 2022 October 25, 2022
Description: This week's photo takes us to the lost eastern end of Manhattan Beach. Coney Island stretched much further east at that time than it does today, and near that eastern end stood a dilapidated Life Saving Station.
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Subject: Manhattan Beach, Neighborhood history , Photo of the Week
Creator: Cecily Dyer
Date: 2021, 2021 January 12
Description: To celebrate the announcement in the beginning of March that theaters will reopen in April, our photo of the week takes us to the corner of Graham Avenue and Debevoise Street in Williamsburg. This corner was the location of the Folly Theater which opened on the afternoon of October 14, 1901.
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Subject: Photo of the Week, Williamsburg, Theaters, Entertainment, Neighborhood history
Creator: Amy Lau
Date: 2021, 2021 March 19
Description: Guest post. Part two of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue, this one focused on VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Post #7096.
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Subject: Neighborhood history , Sunset Park, South Slope, War
Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017, 2017 April 4
Description: Guest post. Part three of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue. A visit to the shop Mystic Essentials of Brooklyn, a botánica with materials related to Santería (also known as Lucumí ), Espiritismo and Vodou.
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Subject: Sunset Park, South Slope, Neighborhood history , Photography
Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017, 2017 May 24
Description: Guest post. Part four of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue, this one on the avenue's scrap yards and the people who work in them.
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Subject: Industry, Neighborhood history , Photography, Sunset Park, South Slope
Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017 June 30, 2017
Description: Guest post. Part one of blogger One More Folded Sunset and photographer Larry Racioppo's series on Third Avenue.
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Subject: Neighborhood history , Sunset Park, South Slope
Creator: One More Folded Sunset, Larry Racioppo
Date: 2017 March 7, 2017
Description: The history of Vanderveer Park.
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Subject: Flatbush, Neighborhood history , Maps
Creator: Deborah Tint
Date: 2020, 2020 November 28
Description: The history of the small neighborhood of Parkville, near/part of the larger neighborhood of Kensington.
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Subject: Neighborhood history , Kensington
Creator: Brendan Murphy
Date: 2015 February 18, 2015
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