brooklyn eagle

Jan
21
How Our Street Names Were Almost Interesting: The History of Local Street Names

How Our Street Names Were Almost Interesting: The History of Local Street Names

Photo by sirsamuelortiz [https://www.instagram.com/sirsamuelortiz/]Do you live on Hiawatha Avenue? Well, you almost did if you
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Dec
11

Flashback Friday: Snowy 50s Christmas

Photo via Brooklyn Public Library [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search/c?SEARCH=NEIG+1340]Grand Army Plaza sported a Christmas
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Oct
16
Flashback Friday: Tercentenary Parade At Grand Army Plaza

Flashback Friday: Tercentenary Parade At Grand Army Plaza

Photo via Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/tercentenary-parade-folder-iii-2]A very different kind of parade took place in 1936,
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Aug
21

Flashback Friday: Trio Nabbed At Bar Brawl

Photo via Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/trio-nabbed-bar-brawl]This image was taken in a precinct house after three
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Jan
04
History At Home: Snow In Prospect Park

History At Home: Snow In Prospect Park

As we wander about our modern neighborhood, caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life, it’s easy
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Oct
10
The Mystifying, High Sounding Street Names of Ditmas Park

The Mystifying, High Sounding Street Names of Ditmas Park

A young couple got off the Q train at Newkirk Plaza recently in search of a dinner party at their
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Feb
08

Report: Things Looking Up In A Changing Bensonhurst

You could say we put the “class” in working class. A piece by Brooklyn Eagle editor Raanan Geberer, [/fiction-the-singing-dentist-of-bensonhurst/] which
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