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Bensonhurst

Life in Bensonhurst, According To This 1969 Brochure, “Will Not Change Much In The Near Future”

Photos by Charles Harbutt via NYPL [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1ca46110-c604-012f-b53c-58d385a7bc34#/?uuid=c42cb93f-8e2c-ca65-e040-e00a18064e5c&rotate=0] Take a trip down memory lane with this 1969 Brooklyn Community Planning District 11 brochure [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1ca46110-c604-012f-b53c-58d385a7bc34#/?uuid=c42cb93f-8e2c-ca65-e040-e00a18064e5c&rotate=0] on what it was like to live

Announcements

Monumental Holocaust Historian & Brooklyn College Professor Dies At 79

(Photo via Jewish Daily Forward [https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynBreakingNews/photos/a.10152220115617280.1073741825.269037602279/10154837144167280/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Yaffa Eliach, Holocaust survivor, photographer, historian, and Brooklyn College Professor, died Tuesday at age 79, reports the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/nyregion/yaffa-eliach-died-holocaust-memorial-museum.

Announcements

Call To Readers: Tell Us How Your Block Is Changing

A surge in development is transforming greater Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Kensington — three neighborhoods where historic homes [/blog/education/murder-house-33-hinckley-place-torn-make-way-new-school/] are being razed and replaced with multi-story apartment buildings [/blog/real-estate/modern-apartment-complex-replaces-single-family-home-east-18th-street/] , forever changing the density and physical fabric of this corner of Brooklyn. While some neighbors celebrate the

Announcements

Call To Readers: Tell Us How Your Block Is Changing

A surge in development is transforming greater Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Kensington — three neighborhoods where historic homes [/blog/education/murder-house-33-hinckley-place-torn-make-way-new-school/] are being razed and replaced with multi-story apartment buildings [/blog/real-estate/modern-apartment-complex-replaces-single-family-home-east-18th-street/] , forever changing the density and physical fabric of this corner of Brooklyn. While some neighbors celebrate the

Central Brooklyn

From Susan B. Anthony To Hillary Clinton — Women’s Historic Fight For Representation

Screenshot of front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 18th, 1920, noting the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women in the United States the right to vote. (Courtesy Brooklyn Daily Eagle)Today marks the first time in American history that voters have the chance to vote

history

From Susan B. Anthony To Hillary Clinton — Women’s Historic Fight For Representation

Screenshot of front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 18th, 1920, noting the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women in the United States the right to vote. (Courtesy Brooklyn Daily Eagle)Today marks the first time in American history that voters have the chance to vote

Bensonhurst

From Susan B. Anthony To Hillary Clinton — Women’s Historic Fight For Representation

Screenshot of front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 18th, 1920, noting the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women in the United States the right to vote. (Courtesy Brooklyn Daily Eagle)Today marks the first time in American history that voters have the chance to vote

history

From Susan B. Anthony To Hillary Clinton — Women’s Historic Fight For Representation

Screenshot of front page of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on August 18th, 1920, noting the passage of the 19th amendment, which granted women in the United States the right to vote. (Courtesy Brooklyn Daily Eagle)Today marks the first time in American history that voters have the chance to vote

fort greene

Four Years After Sandy, Climate Resiliency Planning For Brooklyn Waterfront Continues

Screenshot of video showing the pier off Owl’s Head Park during Hurricane Sandy. (Video by John Huntingtonvia Vimeo [https://vimeo.com/52418093])In recognition of the fourth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, we’re taking a deeper look this week at the status of recovery efforts along the Brooklyn waterfront.

Arts & Culture

Exploring The Pavilion’s Dark Secrets One Last Time

From behind the Pavilion’s facade, the marquee is visibleFor years, the Pavilion Theater on Prospect Park West was the cinema we loved to hate [/blog/art-music/sticky-shoes-so-long-neighbors-invited-to-give-pavilion-a-sendoff-on-november-1/] . Since the theater re-opened in 1996, neighbors watched its steady decline — sticky, gum-spackled floors, broken heaters in the winter, rats roaming the

Bensonhurst

How Did Bensonhurst Get Its Name?

The Brooklyn, Bath and West End RR Elevated line’s Bensonhurst station in 1917. Photo via the New York Historical Society, uploaded by Oocities.org [http://www.oocities.org/thereillyfamily/neighborhoods2.htm]To understand how Bensonhurst got its name, you must go way back to when the area was farmland.

Arts & Culture

Sticky Shoes So-Long: Neighbors Invited To Give Pavilion A Sendoff On November 1

The long-shuttered Circles Restaurant appears on the left of the Pavilion Theater in this photo from 2008. (Photo via Kristian Rickert / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifoo/3151359223/in/photolist-5NtxiH-hHxEi-68hLYY-8wdFgH-eaNTMa-9LCx6d-2TTKrc-xp6hr-9yRWmE-8KDbDR-9iiwdT-jZEY5-nA2AGd-9yRBfh-aZQ34p-9yRE5J-9yRyE3-9yRCbf-9yNzs6-8ZWpRR-9yNFyZ-9yNxQc-9hPEXE-9yNzPx-9yNLnP-anGpSt-9yNBb8-9yREwm-9H1iwU-9yNF5g-9yRxob-9yNG5M-9yRVfh-9yRPYq-9dUkB4-9yRMDb-beUqJe-9yNJye-9yNEzT-9yNMRF-anKbty-9yNuzg-9yRwV