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Photo by sirsamuelortiz [https://www.instagram.com/sirsamuelortiz/]Do you live on Hiawatha Avenue? Well, you almost did if you live on Avenue H. The street names of Brooklyn are mostly pretty direct numbers and letters; however, had Walter B. Brown, the representative of the Flatbush Board of Trade in
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Photo via Brooklyn Public Library [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search/c?SEARCH=NEIG+1340]Grand Army Plaza sported a Christmas tree during a snowy Christmas in the 1950s. Taken in 195-?, the photo caption reads: “Christmas tree with decorations on raised and festooned platform at Grand Army Plaza; Memorial Arch,
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Photo via Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/tercentenary-parade-folder-iii-2]A very different kind of parade took place in 1936, and had quite the long parade route. It also serves as a good reminder that Brooklyn is part of Long Island, too. This Long Island History parade started in Downtown
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Photo via Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/trio-nabbed-bar-brawl]This image was taken in a precinct house after three adolescent boys cut a bartender with a piece of broken glass after being refused service at Kerrigan’s Bar in Park Slope way back on October 9, 1954. Original caption:
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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, this time with the help of the Brooklyn
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A young couple got off the Q train at Newkirk Plaza recently in search of a dinner party at their friend’s house. The couple was new to the neighborhood and couldn’t easily navigate the change from numbered and lettered streets to named streets. When the couple asked a
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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 summed up the findings of a recent report put out by the Center for the Study of Brooklyn at Brooklyn College, describes Bensonhurst as a neighborhood where hardworking parents raise