Tag: history
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Our Voices Exhibition Celebrates 50 Years of Activism in North Brooklyn: Sneak Peek
https://greenpointers.com/2022/05/10/our-voices-exhibition-celebrates-50-years-of-activism-in-north-brooklyn-sneak-peek/
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Reinforced Concrete and the Turner Construction Company – They Changed the World
https://suzannespellen.substack.com/p/reinforced-concrete-and-the-turner?s=r
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Slavery in North Brooklyn
July 4 is the 193rd anniversary of the end of slavery in New York. Prior to 1827 Kings County – then a collection of 6 towns (Brooklyn, Bushwick, Flatbush, Flatlands, New Utrecht and Gravesend) – had the largest number of enslaved persons in the state. In 1698, Kings County had a population of 2,015, 293…
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These 5 Brooklyn Buildings Are Now Landmarks, City Says
https://patch.com/new-york/parkslope/these-five-brooklyn-buildings-are-now-landmarks-city-says
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Henry Miller’s Williamsburg Fantasy
Author Henry Miller spent the first decade of his life living at 662 Driggs Avenue. Geoff Cobb, writing in Greenpointers, recently took a look at an article Miller wrote in 1971 about his childhood home: Though he had been away for five decades, Miller had a crystal clear memory, recalling many fascinating stories from that…
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On the (Queer) Waterfront
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-queer-waterfront-opening-reception-tickets-56130914075?mc_cid=65a544b4a6&mc_eid=4bd424926c
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LongPoint Bridge Connecting Greenpoint to Long Island City Gains Momentum
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/02/11/longpoint-bridge-connecting-greenpoint-to-long-island-city-gains-momentum/
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Yankowsky and Yankowsky
From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1910: “The man was Andrew Yankowsky, 22 years old, an iron worker, who occupied a furnished room at 81 Grand street, with Andrew Yankowsky. The two are no relation.”
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335 Grand Street
I’ve always been curious about 335 Grand Street – one of the buildings involved in a partial collapse that I linked to earlier today. It’s design is – odd. Clearly Italianate in design, but the unibrow swag lintels are unique, and the relationship of the lintels to the undersized windows is awkward at best. Looking…
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Six-Story Building Coming to Williamsburg’s Grand Street
https://bklyner.com/grand-street-six-story/