History at Home: This Day in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle

As we wander about our modern neighborhood, caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it’s easy to ignore the long and vibrant history of our community. Let’s remedy that. Every weekend, we’ll take a step back, with the help of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle archives, and explore what was happening around South Slope over a century ago.

We’ve all been cursing Mother Nature lately, and her quest to keep snow in our lives through the spring, but it sounds like the folks living in Brooklyn on March 16, 1900 were dealing with significantly more white stuff than we’ve got in the forecast.

You can find the full article here.

Have an interesting bit of South Slope history to share? Send it to editor@bklyner.com, and we’ll publish it in our weekly History at Home segment.