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Photo via 911memorial [https://www.instagram.com/p/BJqE3wYB_Mg/?taken-by=911memorial&hl=en]Today marks 15 years since the September 11, 2001 attacks. We’re thinking about the entire community who suffered unspeakable loss and express deep gratitude to the community who came together in the face of
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Facade rendering for the Central Library. (Courtesy of Brooklyn Public Library) One of the borough’s literary and architectural jewels is hitting a major milestone Saturday — and looking elegant and majestic while doing so. Brooklyn Public Library’s iconic Central Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/central] is about to
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Facade rendering for the Central Library. (Courtesy of Brooklyn Public Library) One of the borough’s literary and architectural jewels is hitting a major milestone Saturday — and looking elegant and majestic while doing so. Brooklyn Public Library’s iconic Central Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/central] is about to
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Photo by Dave Cook via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/eatingintranslation/][This story was updated at 2pm on 9/9/16.] Taking the D train into the Bay Parkway train station, have you ever noticed, on eye-level with the train, the word “Orloff’s” inscribed in all caps on
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Photo via Facebook/Gerritsen Beach Fire Department. [https://www.facebook.com/gerrittsenbeachfiredepartment/photos]The Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire Department, known as the “Vollies,” [/?s=gerrittsen+fire]will receive a portion of a $500,000 grant given to seven volunteer fire departments throughout the city by the Department of Homeland Security’
Central Brooklyn
Cyclist of Ocean Parkway. (Photo courtesy Photo via Stephan Nicholas / Facebook) Ocean Parkway serves as a major connector between not only northern and southern Brooklyn, but also the Belt Parkway and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. It is an interesting, and essential [/transportation/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-ocean-parkway/#.V8WSUJMrJmA] part of getting around Brooklyn, and it
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Ramp to the lower level of Nevins Street Station. (Photo by Joseph Brennan)The Nevins Street station is located at the intersection of Nevins, Flatbush Avenue, and Fulton Street and serves the 2 and 4 trains at all times, the 3 train until late night, and the 5 train on
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Ramp to the lower level of Nevins Street Station. (Photo by Joseph Brennan)The Nevins Street station is located at the intersection of Nevins, Flatbush Avenue, and Fulton Street and serves the 2 and 4 trains at all times, the 3 train until late night, and the 5 train on
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Cyclists on Ocean Parkway. Photo via Facebook/Stephan Nicholas.Ocean Parkway serves as a major connector between not only northern and southern Brooklyn, but also the Belt Parkway and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. It is an interesting, and essential [http://kensingtonbk.com/transportation/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-ocean-parkway/#.V8WSUJMrJmA] part of getting around Brooklyn, and
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‘Take The Hill’ Board Game allows you to experience the dilemmas of being a soldier during the Battle of Brooklyn. (Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope Stoop) The British won. Again. That’s because digital interactive designer Isaac Nelson and I were going head-to-head in a game of ‘Take the
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Photo via Coney Island History ProjectMuch ink has been spilled about Dr. Martin Couney, the famed — or infamous — incubator doctor, the medical pioneer who saved thousands of premature babies through his Coney Island side show exhibit, at a time when mainstream hospitals were slow to adopt the “newfangled “incubator technology.
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Photo via Coney Island History ProjectMuch ink has been spilled about Dr. Martin Couney, the famed — or infamous — incubator doctor, a medical pioneer who saved thousands of premature babies through his Coney Island side show exhibit at a time when mainstream hospitals were slow to adopt the newfangled incubator technology.