History

Now you can relive one of the largest battles of the American Revolution by joining the Battle of Brooklyn Scavenger Hunt on Saturday, October 26 at noon. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 295th day of the year. Although scholars say the first organized baseball game for which records were kept was played in Hoboken in 1846, older versions of the game were played much earlier, and Brooklyn was no exception. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 291st day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. 18, 1902, quoted Hugh McLaughlin, the longtime boss of the Democratic Party in Brooklyn, as denying reports that he planned to run for the Senate. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 290th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. 17, 1901, reported that a “syndicate of capitalists and yachtsmen” had bought 175 acres in Gravesend. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 291st day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. 16, 1901, quoted African-American Booker T. Washington’s comments about those residents of the Southern states who virulently objected to President Theodore Roosevelt’s inviting him to dinner at the White House. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 288th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. 15, 1899, reported on battles in the Boer War in South Africa. The British were fighting the Boers, or Dutch settlers, to determine who would control the colony. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 284th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 283rd day of the year. The headline of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for Oct. 10, 1901, read, “Democracy Accused of Collecting Money From Employees of City.” “Democracy,” in this case, referred to the Democratic Party. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 282nd day of the year. On Oct. 9, 1862, Walt Whitman wrote an article in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle about the death of Andrew Demarest, age 83, who was one of the founders of the Masons in Brooklyn and had known veterans of the Revolutionary War during his childhood. … Full Article

Good morning. Today is the 281st day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Oct. 8, 1889, reported on a pennant-race baseball game the previous day between the Brooklyn Grays (later the Brooklyn Dodgers) and the Baltimore Orioles. … Full Article