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# History At Home: This Day In The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
- URL: https://bklyner.com/history-at-home-this-day-in-the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-48-southslope/
- Published: 2014-04-05T15:17:40.000Z
- Updated: 2014-04-05T15:17:40.000Z
- Author: Christine Bush
- Tags: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, #API-Imported

On **[this weekend in 1902](http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Repository/BEG/1902/04/05/002-BEG-1902-04-05-001-SINGLE.PDF?ref=bklyner.com#OLV0%5FEntity%5F0001)**, signs of spring were everywhere in Prospect Park. Like at today’s **[official opening](/blog/events/celebrate-spring-with-the-official-opening-of-prospect-park)**, folks were getting the grassy areas ready for the warm weather months:

![Prospect Park Raking.jpg](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Prospect-Park-Raking.jpg.jpg)

  
Benches filled up, as neighbors bid a fair adieu to winter:

![spring prospect park benches.jpg](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/spring-prospect-park-benches.jpg.jpg)

  
And “baby carriage brigades” took over walkways in Prospect Park and beyond:

![baby carriage brigade.jpg](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/baby-carriage-brigade.jpg.jpg)

  
Check back next weekend to explore what was happening in the pages of **[The Brooklyn Daily Eagle](http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Skins/BEagle/Client.asp?Skin=BEagle&ref=bklyner.com)** over a century ago.