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Brooklyn Today: November 23, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 328th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for Nov. 23, 1902, carried an article about the arrest of the “Bath Beach Slasher,” Frederick Roth. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: November 21, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 328th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Nov. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: November 20, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 325th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Nov. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: November 19, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 324th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Nov. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: November 16, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 321st day of the year. Judging by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Nov. 16, 1901, college football was already a crowd favorite. An article on the annual Princeton-Yale game describes “immense crowds” of students, faculty and alumni. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: November 15, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 320th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for Nov. 15, 1873, talked about the new fountain in the middle of Grand Army Plaza. The hand-operated fountain was illuminated by gaslights visible through colored glass windows. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: November 14, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 319th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Nov. 14, 1902, reported on a police bust of an illegal betting operation within the Columbia Billiard Parlor in Bedford. A well-known church deacon was just about to put a $5 bet on a horse when the cops came in. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: November 13, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 319th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Nov. 13, 1912, reported that two large estates near Van Cortlandt Park in the northwest Bronx were being auctioned. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: November 9, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 314th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for Nov. 9, 1901, reported a bold daylight burglary on Macon Street in Stuyvesant Heights. … Full Article

Brooklyn Today: Nov. 8, 2012

Good morning. Today is the 313th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for November 8, 1902, revealed that the stretch of the IRT subway (today’s 4 and 5 lines) on Fulton Street between Boerum Place and Flatbush Avenue would be built by the “cut and cover” method. … Full Article
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