joseph ditta

Mar
25
Lundy’s Building: A Real Fixer Upper?

Lundy’s Building: A Real Fixer Upper?

Ragged blue tarp hanging from the Lundy’s building. (Photo: Ed Cheney)The historic Lundy’s Building [/?s=lundy%27s]
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Oct
26
Tonight: NY1 Interviews Gravesend Historian Joseph Ditta For 5-Part Brooklyn Series

Tonight: NY1 Interviews Gravesend Historian Joseph Ditta For 5-Part Brooklyn Series

Courtesy of Joseph Ditta/Gravesend Gazette [https://www.facebook.com/GravesendGazette/photos/pb.102353071530.-2207520000.1445873156./10153999548986531/?type=3&
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May
29

A Grisly Bicentennial: Man Kills Toddler, Self In What May Have Been Gravesend’s First Murder-Suicide

Two hundred years ago this week, the now historic village of Gravesend was rocked by a violent and tragic outburst
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Nov
12

Historic Gravesend House, Once Home To Infamous Judge, Hits Market For $1.2 Million

The turret-equipped home at 2064 West 6th Street has hit the market with a slightly above market-value price tag of
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Aug
03

Saphier’s “Neck Road Farm House”: Which Farmhouse Is It?

“Neck Road Farm House, Brooklyn, N.Y., painted by Louis Saphier, July 1942″ (Collection of Joseph Ditta)At a glance,
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May
18

Earlier Maurice Sendak Illustration Surfaces In Boody Junior High School Yearbook

Source: Joseph Ditta of the Gravesend GazetteLongtime reader, author and guest contributor of all things historical in Southern Brooklyn Joseph
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Nov
30

Sheepshead Bay’s Historic Footbridge To Change, As DOT Alters Material Without Telling Community

Strolling over the Ocean Avenue footbridge’s wooden planks has been the quintessential Sheepshead Bay experience for 131 years, but
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Oct
29

Photos: Gravesend Cemetery Tour

Gravesend historian Joseph Ditta led a morbid mass of miscreants amongst the decayed and dismembered tombstones of the Gravesend Cemetery
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Feb
11

"Hell House" Once Home Of Famed Cartoonist

After seeing our posts about 1811 Voorhies Avenue, now known to some as the “Hell House” for its graffiti and
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