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Brooklyn Based: Brooklyn’s Photogenic Dead
The Brooklyn Wire
Jan 17Residents of Green-Wood Cemetery--a few of whom we profiled here--have eternal access to one of Brooklyn’s most beautiful, if somewhat macabre, green spaces.Here are some shots of their enviable resting … »
Brooklyn Based: Brooklyn History: Our Famous Dead
The Brooklyn Wire
Jan 17Green-Wood Cemetery existed before there was a Metropolitan Museum (founded in 1870), a Central Park (created in 1857), or a … → »
Free & Cheap in New York: Sat., Jan. 14
NYDailyNews.com Headlines
Jan 14‘DIGGING’ DEEPER. Historian Ben Feldman will be “Uncovering Long-Lost Stories: Digging Dirt at Green-Wood Cemetery.” The author also will discuss his two books, “Butchery on Bond Street” and “Call Me Daddy,” followed by a Q&A and optional trolley tour.... »
KARMABrooklyn: DISHING 19TH- AND 20TH-CENTURY DIRT AT GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY
The Brooklyn Wire
Dec 23Uncovering Long-Lost Stories:Digging Dirt at Green-Wood with Ben Feldman Saturday, January 14th, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. … »
Calendar Features Neighborhood Murals
BrooklynEagle.com Headlines
Dec 16This mural, “One World Unity,” painted above a grocery store at 18th Street and Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park by artists Paul Deo and Cornell Jones as well as several talented teen artists, is one of several colorful Brooklyn murals included in the “Mura... »
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January Birds
The City Birder
Feb 02January was not as productive for bird species as I'd come to expect. Many birds typically seen in the city parks or in the waters along the coast seemed to have been missing in action. To put my low January species number in perspective, last month I ... »
Brooklyn Eagles
The City Birder
Jan 20I received a text from Doug Gochfeld Wednesday morning that he was looking at an adult Bald Eagle in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. The bird was circling Prospect Lake. I rushed into the park, but by the time I got to the lake it was nowhere to be found. I ... »
Snow Goose Reunion
The City Birder
Jan 20...sort of. As a follow up to the Snow Goose story, I brought Marge over to Coney Island Creek to look for her possible former ward. Our hope was that it would hear her voice, remember the care she gave this goose from 2005-2009 and come running (with ... »
Notes from the podcast (#133): Red Hook, Brooklyn
The Bowery Boys
Jan 17A haunting snapshot of the Atlantic Docks, circa 1870-80s (possibly as early as 1872) photo by George Bradford Brainerd (courtesy the Brooklyn Museum) Quite a few notes on the podcast this week! There were a lot of little details I found interesting th... »
Walkabout: Rev. Talmage’s Tabernacle-Pride Goeth…
Brownstoner
Jan 17(Photo: Brooklyn Museum Archives) On a spring Sunday morning, right after church services, on May 13, 1894, the great organ of the Brooklyn Tabernacle burst into flames. Within a matter of minutes, the fire spread to other parts of the church, like a f... »