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(Photo: Southern Brooklyn Scrapbook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1945237902368627&set=gm.447860265402906&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Ever wondered what the name of that grocery store was on Avenue U? Or tried to figure out the point of the “stairway to nowhere” at the Neck
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Watching a performer at the Flatbush Avenue Street Fair from the steps of the historic Dutch Reformed Church. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)The Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) [http://www.brooklynhistory.org/] announced the launch of a new podcast, Flatbush + Main [http://www.brooklynhistory.org/blog/2016/04/24/flatbush-main-podcast-intro/], this
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Source: blhphotography via FlickrCity Councilman Mark Treyger is urging New Yorkers, and especially southern Brooklyn residents, to turn out at a City Council hearing next week and show their support for his resolution to landmark Coney Island’s Riegelmann Boardwalk. Treyger has long advocated [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2014/12/
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Photo of the straightening of Church Avenue — east of Flatbush Avenue — from the September 10th, 1904 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. (Source: Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Collection)Our friends at the Brownstone Detectives did a wonderful post [http://www.brownstonedetectives.com/straightening-a-crooked-church-1904/] last year about the straightening of Church
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Source: blhphotography via FlickrCity Councilman Mark Treyger is urging New Yorkers, and especially southern Brooklyn residents, to turn out at a City Council hearing next week and show their support for his resolution to landmark Coney Island’s Riegelmann Boardwalk. Treyger has long advocated [/councilman-treyger-moves-make-coney-island-boardwalk-city-landmark/] for the Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Image courtesy of Tony Giordano.Happy Earth Day! Did you know that on this day, 46 years ago, Sunset Park resident and community advocate Tony Giordano, along with friends and neighbors, organized “the first Earth Day event in Sunset Park.” “We were the Street People Coalition and the grown-ups that
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How cool is this black-and-white video, of a ride along the El[evated] line from Manhattan into Brooklyn, past Fulton Street and then the 5th Avenue Bay Ridge line, through Sunset Park? Fast forward to the 8:20 mark in the video, as the train approaches Green-Wood Cemetery. There’s
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Happy 100th birthday, Isabel Espinal! (Photo courtesy of Maritza Peralta)Happy 100th birthday, Isabel Espinal! In the annals of reasons to hold a massive family reunion of hundreds of people from across the country, a 100th birthday party for the family matriarch is one of the best. And that is
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Photo via Brooklyn Public Library [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search~S64?/Xthanksgiving+park+slope&searchscope=64&SORT=DZ/Xthanksgiving+park+slope&searchscope=64&SORT=DZ&extended=0&SUBKEY=thanksgiving+park+slope/13%2C2245%2C2245%2CB/frameset&FF=Xthanksgiving+park+slope&searchscope=64&
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Photo courtesy of Tony Giordano.The Legend of Martense Lane is as much about a boulder as it is about a lane and the traveler journeying along it. First written down over 150 years ago, the legend tells the tale of a Dutch slave, returning home to Gowanus along Martense
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Green-Wood Chapel. (Photo via Beyond My Ken [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/2015_Green-Wood_Chapel_1.jpg] .The Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] voted in favor of landmark status for a series of extremely significant properties and neighborhoods across
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Green-Wood Chapel. (Photo via Beyond My Ken [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/2015_Green-Wood_Chapel_1.jpg] )The Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] voted in favor of landmark status for a series of extremely significant properties and neighborhoods throughout