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From right to left: Assistant District Attorney Jacob Weinberg, Joseph Kelly, Robert Lee, Daniel McCarthy, and Donald Sarra. (Photo via Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/youthful-muggers-quizzed])A controversial crime, the assault and robbery of Harry Lehr, has occurred in Park Slope, but don’t worry — the crime dates
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Photo via Brooklyn Public Library [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search~S64?/Xpark+slope&searchscope=64&SORT=DZ/Xpark+slope&searchscope=64&SORT=DZ&SUBKEY=park+slope/157%2C306%2C306%2CB/frameset&FF=Xpark+slope&searchscope=64&SORT=DZ&161%2C161%2C]
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Gowanus Canal, 1905. (Photo via Brooklyn Public Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/slideshows/gowanus_canal/index60ab.html?topicid=2]) It’s hard to imagine the Gowanus Canal [/blog/green/brave-activist-christopher-swain-swims-lavender-lake] at a time when it was … bucolic. But this was just the beginning of what would make it the “Lavender
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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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The recent dreary weather has us daydreaming about spring in Prospect Park [http://www.prospectpark.org/] — the picnics, the lazing about, the dogs and children and frisbee tossing! To remind us all what’s just around the corner (we hope), we’ve gathered some great old photos from Brooklyn Visual
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In 2014, the intersection of Caton and Ocean Avenues is bustling with a combination of pedestrians, cars, bicycles, and delivery scooters, and is flanked at each corner by mid rise apartment buildings. In 1800, not so much. Back in the day, as you can see from this Brooklyn Visual Heritage
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On the northwest corner of Church Ave. and Argyle Rd. you’ll find Pimentel Grocery [http://www.yelp.com/biz/pimentel-grocery-brooklyn], where the people are nice, the emergency cat food supply is available early in the morning, the drinks are cold on the way to the park, and my dad,
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Brooklyn Visual Heritage [http://www.brooklynvisualheritage.org/] has joined up with Project CHART [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/2011/11/14/project-chart-at-the-brooklyn-museum/] to put historical photos of the borough online, and the result is a wonderful gift to anyone who has ever nerded out about history or Brooklyn. The