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(Re)connecting Brooklyn’s History: Brooklyn’s Homefront during World War II with Brooklyn Public Library

The history and legacy of the Second World War can be seen all around us in Brooklyn. Once home to hundreds of factories, shipyards, and warehouses, and responsible for sending …

  • Brooklyn Army Terminal
  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • Virtual Programs
  • Waterfront
  • World War II

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Downhill Skiing in America: Schussing Through History | Episode 187

Hit the slopes with us as we explore the history of downhill skiing in the United States. We will look at the introduction of modern skiing by Norwegian immigrants, the …

  • Prospect Park
  • Virtual Programs
  • World War II

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Virtual Walking Tour of the Monuments of Manhattan’s Battery | Episode 184

Over the past four centuries, the Battery at the tip of Manhattan has evolved, from a fortification to immigration station to park to National Monument. On this virtual walking tour, …

  • Architecture
  • Virtual Programs
  • Waterfront
  • World War II

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Happy Leif Erikson Day! Two Voyages Tell The Story of America

We couldn’t let Leif Erikson Day pass without boasting that we stood in his bedroom. And not in Norway or Iceland or Greenland, but right here in North America, at …

  • Shipspotting
  • Waterfront

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Woman in a blue jacket standing underneath a bronze abstract sculpture with a meadow and ocean in the distance.

Immigrants Who Made the Brooklyn Navy Yard Great: Peter Asserson

Peter Christian Asserson (1839–1906) The Brooklyn Navy Yard has always adapted to change. Over its first 165 years, rapid changes in naval ship designs forced the adoption of new shipbuilding …

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard
  • World War I

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Workers walk alongside a large stone dry dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with two white tugboats below and a red and white crane on the right.
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