Coney Island Day Trip By Subway Chapter 24
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Chapter 31 “Football Wedding”
I made “Football Wedding” Sandwiches in A Place Called Brooklyn at Defonte’s when I was a kid. Now we celebrate their 100 year anniversary in Brooklyn. Here is Nicky’s video:
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Brooklyn History Post WWII Time Travel Book Introduction
16mm film, simply titled “BROOKLYN” It is a documentary and travelogue of 1949 Brooklyn
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Chapter 48 Ebbets Field
In Chapter 48 we talk about going to Ebbets Field for the first time. “Seeing Jackie Robison live for the first time is really something! I have his rookie baseball card at home but it’s no substitute for seeing him in person running onto the ballfields.”
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Prospect Park Day Trip – Chapter 51
Prospect Park is an urban park in Brooklyn, New York City. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. With an area of 526 acres (213 ha), Prospect Park is
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Carroll Gardens (formerly Red Hook) Brooklyn Video
Neighborhood Slice: Carroll Gardens, BrooklynSeason 1: Ep. 4 Take a stroll down Court Street, where Italian Mom & Pop shops hold fast amid an onslaught of new, trendy boutiques & changing demographics. This video is from www1.nyc.gov
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Red Hook Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
Plans for the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel date back to the 1920s. Official plans to build the tunnel were submitted in 1930 but were initially not carried out. The New York City Tunnel Authority, created in 1936, was tasked with constructing the tunnel. After unsuccessful attempts to secure federal funds, New York City Parks Commissioner Robert Moses proposed a
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New Softcover Released (ISBN: 978-1-66782-999-9)
Growing up in the 1940s and 50s in a place called Brooklyn, the center of my universe was located deep in the section called Red Hook. At Smith-9th, the old IND Subway is grandly elevated as the highest elevated station in both Brooklyn and the city, conforming to old regulations that allowed tall-mast ships to
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