November 17, birthdays for Martin Scorsese, Lorne Michaels, Tom Seaver
Brooklyn Today
ON THIS DAY IN 1912, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “Admits 3 Murders; Won’t Give His Name.”
The article focused on a self-proclaimed “wealthy and maniacal” man who anonymously admitted to a crime spree via a postcard.
“The murder of the Josephs boy, whose entire body in badly decomposed fragments was found today in a cesspool near his home in Lackawanna after a search of over a year, is believed by the police to be but one of a long series of similar crimes committed throughout the country by the man,” the Eagle reported.
Brooklyn Boro
View MoreNew York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.