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Brooklyn: The Once and Future City | Book Review

With “Brooklyn: The Once and Future City,” author and Brooklyn native Thomas Campanella has written the unqualified best and most thorough history of our city-turned-borough. He will talk about it Continue Reading

Posted On : November 6, 2019 Published By : John B. Manbeck
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Daily Bookmark: Marine Park native pens ode to Brooklyn, “America’s most storied underdog”

In “Brooklyn: The Once and Future City,” Thomas Campanella reveals some of the rich and underappreciated history of his beloved home borough, especially the southern portion where he spent his Continue Reading

Posted On : September 23, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Stacy Horn exposes Roosevelt’s Island’s squalid past

Think of Roosevelt Island today and you may think of the waterfront promenade, or the bright red car of the aerial tramway connecting the island to Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Continue Reading

Posted On : August 19, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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‘The past is present’: Brooklyn historian unpacks history of Bay Ridge in new book

A Brooklyn historian’s love for his hometown was laid bare Tuesday evening at a launch party for his latest book, “How Bay Ridge Became Bay Ridge.” In celebration of the Continue Reading

Posted On : August 17, 2019 Published By : Meaghan McGoldrick
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Ask a historian: What writers lived in Brooklyn Heights?

Lauren from Brooklyn Heights asks: What writers lived in Brooklyn Heights? Great literary writing started in Brooklyn Heights, Lauren, but it has spread over the borough, attracting literary notables. Conversely, Continue Reading

Posted On : August 12, 2019 Published By : John B. Manbeck
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Daily Bookmark: Celebrate a black BK biking legend with “The World’s Fastest Man”

Twelve years before Jack Johnson became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champ and fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke the MLB’s color barrier, Marshall “Major” Taylor started setting Continue Reading

Posted On : August 8, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Visit Brooklyn’s favorite Superfund Site with Joseph Alexiou

Today the Gowanus Canal is a famously toxic waterbody, notorious for its contamination and for its possible role in the death of Sludgie the Whale, the young minke unfortunate enough Continue Reading

Posted On : July 23, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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Daily Bookmark: Ron Howell’s “Boss of Black Brooklyn” sheds light on a forgotten black icon

Brooklyn residents today may take for granted that their representatives are as diverse as the borough they call home. But until the mid-20th century, New York’s largest borough still hadn’t Continue Reading

Posted On : June 28, 2019 Published By : Alex Williamson
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‘In the Shadow of Genius’ explores the minds behind the Brooklyn Bridge

“The word ‘genius’ is used so indiscriminately in our culture that its meaning, even when applied to such masterworks as the Brooklyn Bridge, has become completely diminished,” says photographer Barbara Continue Reading

Posted On : November 13, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Comedy legend discusses new book in Brooklyn

Monty Python’s Michael Palin visited St. Francis College on a recent night to discuss his new book “Erebus: The Story of a Ship,” which explores the history of the 19th-century Continue Reading

Posted On : October 26, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Historian writes true-crime account of Evelyn Nesbit scandal

 The cover of “The Girl on the Velvet Swing” features a photograph of Evelyn Nesbit in 1900. Photo courtesy of Little, Brown and Company The publication of “The Girl on Continue Reading

Posted On : February 28, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Distinguished historian shakes up civil rights history

“What of the past is remembered, celebrated, and mourned is at the core of national identity — and the process of what is told and not told is often a Continue Reading

Posted On : February 14, 2018 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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“Brooklyn’s Sweet Ruin”

When it was rebuilt in 1883, the Domino Sugar Refinery was the largest in the world. That year, the Brooklyn Eagle described the new facility as “colossal”. At its peak, Continue Reading

Posted On : December 13, 2017 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Matthew Goodman, Brooklyn’s Narrative Historian

If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful. -Chapter 11, The Sun and the Moon In 1835, nine out of ten New Yorkers believed in the existence of Continue Reading

Posted On : December 7, 2017 Published By : Natasha Soto
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New Book Provides Historical Perspective On Jewish Culture In New York City

Jewish immigrants transformed New York. They built its clothing industry, expanded its commercial reach, and constructed huge swaths of apartment buildings. New York Jews helped to make the city the Continue Reading

Posted On : November 8, 2017 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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New book ‘Jackie Robinson in Quotes’ details ‘The Remarkable Life of Baseball’s Most Significant Player’

Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has noted recently, while doing the interview circuit to promote his new documentary on Jackie Robinson, “When Jackie broke the color barrier in baseball, Martin Luther King Continue Reading

Posted On : April 13, 2016 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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This Week in 1892: Walt Whitman’s death, & his 1847 ‘Death in the School-room’ piece for the Brooklyn Eagle

article by Andriana Zacharakos, Brooklyn Daily Eagle This week is one of literary mourning, as New York City marked the 122nd death anniversary of the nineteenth century poet and essayist, Continue Reading

Posted On : March 26, 2014 Published By : Andriana Zacharakos
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Upcoming book talk to highlight Plymouth Church in Civil War Era

In connection with the Brooklyn Historical Society’s new exhibition, “Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom,” BHS, in partnership with Green-Wood, will host a book talk with Frank Decker to discuss his new book about Continue Reading

Posted On : February 5, 2014 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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Brooklyn journalist uncovers story of Topsy the elephant

  According to Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn-based journalist Michael Daly has recently published “Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison” (Atlantic Continue Reading

Posted On : July 16, 2013 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat
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‘Paris Reborn:’ A Parisian Brooklynite’s take on the birth of Paris

St. Martin’s Press According to Brooklyn Eagle, Stephane Kirkland, a writer who splits his time between Brooklyn and Paris, will soon release his vivid and engrossing account of the greatest transformation Continue Reading

Posted On : March 29, 2013 Published By : BrooklynBookBeat

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Brooklyn Book Beat is Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s blog devoted to all things literary — books, authors, history, and associated events.

The Eagle, once edited by Walt Whitman, has long been covering Brooklyn news and events, but this blog serves as a special haven for bookworms. BookBeat features Brooklyn-based writers, as well as stories relating to the city and its history.

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