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Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Museum Collection [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/image/20601].Did you know that there used to be a major produce market in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, called the Wallabout Market, back in the turn of the century? It makes sense, since the Navy Yard was
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Image via Library of Congress / World-Telegram photo by Al Ravenna [http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/99472801/].Have you ever seen such orderly picketing lines? These men were photographed “milling around [the] street across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard during an electrical workers strike” in 1941, according to the caption
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Photo courtesy of New York Public Library [http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm] and the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission [https://www.facebook.com/NYCLandmarks/photos/a.570041393025256.144620.133261836703216/1003407093022015/?type=1&permPage=1] .Look outside your window and you’ll get a nice little snapshot of a