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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

Monumental Holocaust Historian & Brooklyn College Professor Dies At 79

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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.

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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

Call To Readers: Tell Us How Your Block Is Changing

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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

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

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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