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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: April Showers Bring May Flowers and Floods

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/04/25/april-showers-bring-may/

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

Title: Hurricane Sandy

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/11/07/hurricane-sandy/

Description: It’s been ten years since Hurricane Sandy, but it’s not soon forgotten.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Weather

Title: Midwinter Remembrance

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/01/29/midwinter-remembrance

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

Title: Rain, rain, go away

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/03/11/rain-rain-go-away

Description: I take solace in the fact that rain-flooded streets are nothing new in Brooklyn, as this circa 1910 lantern slide by Ralph Irving Lloyd proves. Dr. Ralph Irving Lloyd (1875-1969) was a Brooklyn ophthalmologist and an avid amateur photographer.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Weather

Title: Sliding into the New Year

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/01/02/sliding-new-year/

Description: The Photo of the Week features a sledding scene in Prospect Park on New Year’s Day in 1978. This photograph was taken by Donald L. Nowlan, a long-time Brooklyn resident, who grew up in Park Slope and lived at 470 3rd Street.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Prospect Park,  Weather

Title: Water, Water Everywhere

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/08/23/water-water-everywhere/

Description: This week's Photo of the Week takes us to the intersection of Sutter and Saratoga Avenues in Brownsville in July 1923, when severe storms turned the borough's streets into rivers, flooded subway stations and basements, and caused geysers to erupt from manhole covers.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week ,  Weather ,  Children

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