Brooklyn

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  October 4, 2019
  

  A New History Celebrates Brooklyn’s Heights, and Depths Image

  by Emily Gould

  Thomas J. Campanella, a fourth-generation Brooklynite, traces the borough’s vibrant past and comments on the hipster heyday happening there now.

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• SOURCE: Them
  3/5/19
  

  Historian Hugh Ryan's New Book Documents the Queer History of Brooklyn

  by Hugh Ryan

  From a gay Nazi spy sex scandal to its WWII antifascist queer intelligentsia scene, a new book reveals that Brooklyn has always been a surprisingly queer haven.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-21-13
  

  Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn retrenching

  The center, which spent $34 million on new facilities, has had its annual funding slashed.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12-9-13
  

  Brooklyn Historical Society to Present Exhibition on Abolitionists

  A major five-year exhibition opening Jan. 15 at the Brooklyn Historical Society will bring to life the stories of largely unknown Brooklyn abolitionists who led the anti-slavery movement.

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• The Modesty Wars: Women and the Hasidim in Brooklyn

  by Ruth Rosen

  Via Flickr.Originally posted on openDemocracy.Until recently, you could have lived your entire life in the United States and never have bumped into any Jewish Orthodox Hasidim, who live in scattered communities, mostly in the New York’s borough of Brooklyn. In the last few years, however, the media have publicized the Hasidim’s cultural clashes with their non-fundamentalist neighbours. In each instance, the conflict has pitted the Hasidic view of women’s modest traditional dress and their appropriate role in the family, on the streets, and in their community against the sexualized dress and behaviour of their neighbours. 

• SOURCE: NYT
  3-18-13
  

  Saving Schools and Libraries by Giving Up the Land They Sit On

  The Brooklyn Heights library is neither the oldest nor the most dilapidated branch of the Brooklyn Public Library system. But the 52-year-old limestone building is nonetheless ripe for demolition.It sits on land that developers crave, in a fashionable neighborhood where housing is in high demand. And so the library system, desperate for money to pay for $230 million in long-deferred repairs for its 60 branches, has embraced a novel financing model that is increasingly being used around New York City as a way to pay for government services.The library, on Cadman Plaza, along with another library near the Barclays Center, would be sold to developers, torn down and then rebuilt at no public expense on the ground floor of a new apartment tower....