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Brooklyn Historical Society Exhibit Traces Prospect Park’s 150 Years

Carriages at Grand Army Plaza, 1900 (Courtesy of Prospect Park Alliance)In honor of Prospect Park’s 150th Anniversary [/prospect-park-turns-150/], the Prospect Park Alliance is joining forces with the Brooklyn Historical Society to present The Means of a Ready Escape: Brooklyn’s Prospect Park [http://brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/current.html]

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New Photography Exhibition Depicts Students’ First Encounters With Green-Wood Cemetery

Brooklyn Historical Society has just opened a new photography exhibition [http://brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/current.html] that lets the viewer see Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/] through the eyes of students experiencing the oldest landscaped space in New York City for the first time. “Wonder: First Encounters with Green-Wood,