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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: Park Slope's Colorful Past

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2023/09/04/park-slopes-colorful-past

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

Title: Introducing the Park Slope Civic Council Records

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2022/05/31/introducing-park-slope/

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

Title: Park Slope's Old Tower House

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/04/19/park-slopes-old-tower/

Description: Today’s photo of the week takes us to Park Slope, where a residence locally known as "the old tower house” once stood on the south side of 8th street between 5th and 6th avenues.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Park Slope ,  Architecture

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: Irving Herzberg and the Plane Crash of 1960

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/12/16/irving-herzberg-and-plane/

Description: A plane crash in Park Slope in 1960, documented by photographer Irving Herzberg.

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Subject:   Photography Herzberg, Irving,  Park Slope

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