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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: From the Vault: Majestic Theater

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2024/01/08/vault-majestic-theater

Description: The photo of the week depicts a view of Fulton Street, including the Majestic Theater, in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1959.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Theaters ,  Urban Development

Title: The Brooklyn Theatre Fire of December 1876: a community's response

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/12/06/brooklyn-theatre-fire/

Description: On the evening of December 5th, 1876, a catastrophic fire broke out at the Brooklyn Theatre, a relative newcomer to the Brooklyn's theatre scene.

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Subject:   Photo of the Week,  Theaters ,  Social Welfare

Title: Mesopotamia in Brownsville

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/04/26/mesopotamia-brownsville/

Description: Today’s Photo of the Week features a busy corner in Brownsville, 1501 Pitkin Avenue, where the stately Loew’s Pitkin Theater took up the entirety of the block between Legion Street and Saratoga Avenue.

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Subject:   Theaters ,  Photo of the Week Architecture Brownsville

Title: The Opening of a Vaudeville Theater in Williamsburg

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/03/19/opening-vaudeville/

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

Title: Preserving Black History in Brooklyn

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2021/02/22/preserving-black-history/

Description: The Slave Theater (also called Slave No. 1) opened on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1984. The building, formerly a vaudeville and movie house, was owned by Judge John L. Phillips Jr., an African American Civil Court judge.

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Subject:   Black history Photo of the Week Arts,  Theaters

Title: Now Showing at the Fox...

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2016/01/04/now-showing-fox/

Description: A look at the Fox Theater, once of Brooklyn's former movie palaces.

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Subject:   Entertainment,  Theaters

Title: Brooklyn Goes to the Movies. A talk by Theater Historian Cezar Del Valle. Wednesday, April 28, 7 PM,

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/04/27/brooklyn-goes-movies-talk/

Description: Announcement of a lecture by theater historian Cezar Del Valle.

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Subject:   Events Entertainment,  Theaters

Title: Illusion and Reality at Loew's Kings

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/02/25/illusion-and-reality/

Description: The history and restoration of Loew's King's Theater in Flatbush.

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Subject:   Theaters ,  Architecture

Title: This Wednesday: The Stages of Brooklyn: an Illustrated Talk by Cezar Del Valle

URL: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/blog/2010/02/21/wednesday-stages-brooklyn/

Description: A talk with Cezar Del Valle about Brooklyn theater history.

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Subject:   Events Entertainment,  Theaters

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