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Tonight: Learn How Brooklyn’s Neighborhoods Got Their Names With Borough Historian Ron Schweiger

Come tonight and you could learn how streets like this got their names. (Source: GerritsenBeach.Net/Flickr)The Bay Improvement Group is holding its annual history night presentation tonight. The event, which serves as the lead-up to May 18’s BayFest [http://www.bigbayfest.org/]. The group asked us to

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BIG History Night Showcases 100 Years Of The Brooklyn Dodgers And Ebbets Field

From our friends at the Bay Improvement Group (BIG):

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Tonight: BIG History Night Explores The City’s Formation

So before we were New York City, we were Brooklyn. And before we were Brooklyn, we were Gravesend [/gravesent-brooklyn-joseph-ditta-intervie/]. You see, back in the old days, we were the only English chartered town in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, founded by this badass boo named Lady Moody. As a