Announcements
FORT GREENE – Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and City Council Member Robert Cornegy, Jr. [https://council.nyc.gov/district-36/] (District 36, Bed-Stuy, Northern Crown Heights) joined local veterans and first responders Wednesday morning in Fort Greene to honor the service of Brooklyn heroes, past and present, and declare July 11
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Battle of Brooklyn: Commemoration, Photo via Green-Wood Cemetery [http://www.green-wood.com/event/battle-of-brooklyn-commemoration-2017/]On August 27, 1776, British troops advanced towards Brooklyn Heights, where the American soldier encampment was located. For those familiar with the history of The Battle of Brooklyn [http://theoldstonehouse.org/history/battle-of-brooklyn/] (referred to at
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Fort Greene Park, Photo by Mitchell J. Silver.Fort Greene Park is one of the most photographed places in the neighborhood and borough, by both amateur and professional photographers. Among those shutterbugs is NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver, a Fort Greene resident and Brooklyn native who is also an avid
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Photo via fortgreenepark [http://www.instagram.com/fortgreenepark].From one memorial and monument to another. Keep on sharing photos with us at editor@bklyner.com, add them to our Flickr group [https://www.flickr.com/groups/thelocalfgch/], or tag them #ftgfocus on Instagram [http://instagram.com/fortgreenefocus], and we’ll
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Photo by Alan Cordova.There may be no Clinton Hill House Tour this year [/blog/2015/04/29/clinton-hill-house-tours-cancelled-for-this-year/], but we still have the annual Open House New York [http://www.ohny.org/] weekend coming up on October 17-18. The full list of tour sites were revealed yesterday and there
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Standing in the park that Walt built, Prison Ship Martyrs Monument memorializes the American prisoners who died in British vessels in the East River during the Revolutionary War. (Photo by Francisco Daum)239 years ago, our forefathers fought the British in the first major battle of the Revolutionary War, The
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Photo via Library of Congress [http://www.loc.gov/item/2008679669/].Fort Greene Park has a long and significant history in Brooklyn, New York, and American history, first serving as the site of several forts — including Fort Greene, named after General Greene — during the War of 1812, then as a
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The pillar, before and after the Edward Snowden bust’s removal. The latter flower decorations were left by visitors in Snowden’s honor. (Photos via ANIMAL New York [http://animalnewyork.com/2015/theres-a-massive-illicit-bust-of-edward-snowden-stuck-to-a-war-monument-in-brooklyn/] and 6sqft [https://instagram.com/p/1LCukMHJ6o/?taken-by=6sqft].)The response to both the secretive placement [http:
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The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park/monuments/1222] inside Fort Greene Park is a neighborhood landmark and now it might also become a federal one. That is because the 106-year-old, 149-foot-tall structure has been included as a candidate to become a monument under the jurisdiction
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[SlideDeck2 id=881 ress=1] If you were passing by the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s BLDG 92 [http://bldg92.org] on Flushing Avenue yesterday, you may have noticed a familiar-looking structure occupying the eastern end of its yard. That elongated structure was a scale wooden model of the Brooklyn Bridge.