A is for Aye Aye

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Meet Augusta Palmer, Local Mom, Professor, And Filmmaker

Augusta Palmer is a filmmaker and professor at St. Francis College in downtown Brooklyn. Her latest film “A is for Aye Aye [http://www.aisforayeaye.com]” follows a little girl named Iris — played in the film by Palmer’s 11-year-old daughter Laila — as she wanders through the New York Public

A is for Aye Aye

#ThrowbackThursday: The Atlantic Avenue Station in 1895

The Atlantic Avenue elevated train station around 1895. (Photo courtesy the Brooklyn Historical Society ["http://brooklynhistory.org/])This week’s #ThrowbackThursday photograph shows the elevated BMT Fifth Avenue line train station at Atlantic Avenue and Flatbush Avenue [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.684112,-73.977486,3a,75y,338.