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Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 350th day of the year.
On this day in 1946, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle helped expose shoddy construction practices in a housing development being built in Brownsville. Consequently, the New York City Housing Authority ordered Brownsville Houses to reconstruct misplaced foundations in the $13.2 million public housing project. The construction blunder, if not caught and corrected, would have placed more than 1,300 families in danger.
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