MILESTONES: December 18, birthdays for Christina Aguilera, Keith Richards, Katie Holmes
Brooklyn Today
Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 355th day of the year.
On this day in 1954, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s front page reported that an IRT subway fire at Brooklyn Borough Hall sent smoke all the way into the tunnel leading into the Clark Street tunnel one stop away, and even into the elevator shaft leading up to the St. George Arcade at street level. The Eagle reported an 11-minute delay while the fire was extinguished in the fifth car of an eight-car train.
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