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Crash site of the DC-8 airplane that carved a swathe of destruction through Park Slope and killed 90 people, including 6 on the ground (16 Dec 1960)
Vintage Photograph Shows Horrifying Destruction of Park Slope's 1960 Plane Crash
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This vintage photograph from 1960 shows the aftermath of the Park Slope Plane Crash near Sterling Place and 7th Avenue. Two planes collided mid-air while descending into La Guardia, and…

Dec. 16, 1960: The wreckage of a jet airline fell on the “once-fashionable Park Slope area” at Sterling Place and Seventh Avenue, after two planes bound for New York International Airport (today’s J.F.K.) and La Guardia Airport collided in midair. The second plane crashed on Staten Island; it was conjectured that the planes flew into each other there. One-hundred thirty-four people died, and the United DC-8 narrowly missed crashing into a school that was in session with “more than 1,000 children” in classes. It was the worst air disaster in history up to that point. The next day in Munich, there was another instance of a plane crashing into a busy metro area, with 52 people, including 19 Americans, killed.
The Lively Morgue Posts Vintage Photograph of 1960 Park Slope Plane Crash
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The Lively Morgue is a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…

DUMBO, a name invented in the late 1970s, Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
"Ungentrified", a Collection of Danny Lyon Photos Showing Brooklyn in the 1970's
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American photographer Danny Lyon was born in Brooklyn in 1942. When he was 21 he published his first photographs, and never looked back. Over the next 50 years, Lyon would capture many…