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Vintage Photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn-Side Trolly Terminal Circa 1903
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Opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest bridges in New York City, second only to High Bridge. In this vintage photograph from around 1903, see the Brooklyn Bridge and…

May 17, 1963: A view of sleepy Staten Island and “The Bridge — the $325,000,000 Verrazano-Narrows span, which will join Fort Wadsworth on the island with Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn when it is completed.” The booming growth of the island chagrined some, who “gloomily forecast intolerable overcrowding of schools, stores, living space and roads. They are less sanguine than the enthusiasts about the solution of such problems as lack of sewers, of final mapping and paving of streets and of ‘City Hall red tape’ that discourages prospective industrial development.”
Vintage Aerial Photograph of Bay Ridge, Staten Island, and Verrazano Bridge Under Construction in 1963
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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…

Coney Island - One Night Only
80s Boy Band New Kids on the Block to Play One Show at Coney Island Amphitheater
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The New Kids on the Block may not be the teen heartthrobs that they were in the late 80s and early 90s, but the boy band is back and will perform a one night only show at Coney Island…

Freeke's Mills With Yellow Mills in the Distance, 1776
Vintage Postcard Show What Gowanus Looked Like When There Was a Massive Pond There Around 1776
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Long before the South Brooklyn neighborhood of Gowanus was known for its industrial makeup and canal, the area was full of meadowlands, farms, ponds and mills were quite peaceful and serene.…

Aug. 3, 1975: Coney Island was one of the few areas of activity during that summer’s hottest days, as the “Coney Island Chamber of Commerce reported a crowd of more than 1 million people, including more than 5,000 who slept on the beaches overnight,” The Times reported. Elsewhere across the five boroughs, “New York City was a town in low gear,” as temperatures seemed to linger in the 90s without any respite in sight.
Vintage Photograph Shows Thousands of Beachgoers on a Packed Coney Island Beach in August, 1975
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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…

Vintage Photograph Shows Dapper Men and Elegant Women Crossing Brooklyn Bridge in 1910
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The Brooklyn Bridge was built in 1883 to connect the City of New York with the City of Brooklyn by spanning the East River. It was the first steel-wire suspension bridge constructed, and the…

Today in 1937 - swimming pool at McCarren Park #thisdayinhistory https://t.co/HW57SD1PoH
Vintage Photograph Captures Swimmers at McCarren Park on This Day in 1937
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The high temperature in New York City on July 12th, 1937 was 84°, prompting hundreds of hot Brooklynites to head to the massive McCarren Park Pool Check out this vintage photograph shared by…

A train bound for Coney Island, 1896.
Vintage Photographs of 1896 Coney Island Courtesy of Brooklyn's New York Transit Museum
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Take a look at these vintage photographs from the new exhibition at Brooklyn's New York Transit Museum. The new exhibition explains the role of different modes of transportation in Coney…

New York & bridges from Brooklyn (LOC) | New York &amp; bridges from Brooklyn c1913. 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 9.5 x 34 in. <b>Notes: </b> Copyright claimant's address: New York. No. M-53. Copyright deposit; Irving Underhill; August 11, 1913. Title from item. <b>Subjects: </b> Bridges. Rivers. Waterfronts. United States--New York (State)--New York. <b>Format: </b> Cityscape photographs. Panoramic photographs. Gelatin silver prints. <b>Rights Info: </b> No known restrictions on publication. <b>Repository: </b> Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print" rel="nofollow">hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print</a> <b>Part Of: </b> Panoramic photographs (Library of Congress) (DLC) 93845487 For more information about this collection, see <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pan" rel="nofollow">www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pan</a> <b>Persistent URL: </b> <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a36553" rel="nofollow">hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a36553</a> <b>Call Number: </b> LOT 12475 no. 15
Vintage Panorama Photograph Showing Manhattan Skyline and Bridges From Brooklyn Circa 1913
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This incredible vintage panorama photograph was captured sometime in 1913. In it, you can see the Manhattan skyline as it existed over a century ago, the east river, the Brooklyn and…

Ivan White, of Woodside, Queens, jams with a frisbee in Central Park's Sheep Meadow on Thursday.
Check Out the 2016 Freestyle Frisbee World Championships in Brooklyn's McLaughlin Park This Week
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The 2016 Freestyle Frisbee World Championships are returning to its home on August 3rd - 6th. Freestyle Frisbee is a niche gymnastics-like sport invented in New York City during the 1970s.…