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Brooklyn
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25 historic pictures of Luna Park, Coney Island’s magical land of lights
Coney Island’s original Luna Park was a massive spectacle of thrill rides and...
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Brooklyn’s Shore Parkway as it looked in 1945
The Shore Parkway is one of three parkways that make up the Belt Parkway, a series of...
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Postcards of Brooklyn’s Manhattan Beach in the 1940’s
Manhattan Beach was the most upscale of three major resort areas developed at...
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Vintage guide map and directory of Brooklyn from 1883
In 1883, Brooklynite S.D.L. Taunton created this beautifully detailed map of his hometown in New York. Taunton was an artist and cartographer with an…
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Map of Brooklyn’s racial diversity by neighborhood, 1920
The racial makeup of Brooklyn in the 1920's
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View of lower Manhattan from Brooklyn Strand in 1825
This watercolor by William Wall (1792 – 1864) shows lower Manhattan across the East River as it looked from Brooklyn Strand 1825. The river scene is…
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This is what Brooklyn, New York looked like in 1879
This old map shows Brooklyn, New York as it looked in 1879