Brooklyn

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• Brooklyn
• Riots

Brooklyn’s Irishtown Whisky Raids; Jimmy Haggerty’s Escape [published December 4, 1881]

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      I had a talk, the other day, with...

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• Brooklyn
• Deaths
• Landmarks

Finding Beauty in Death at Greenwood Cemetery [published May 27, 1883]

jpkntz April 5, 2024 0

      As Decoration Day approaches one naturally takes to...

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• Brooklyn
• Disasters

The New York Earthquake of 1870 [published Aug. 17, 1884]

jpkntz January 30, 2024 0

      People have been talkin’ earthquake durin’ the last...

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• Brooklyn
• Hotels
• Landmarks
• Long Island

Early Days of Coney Island [published June 17, 1883]

jpkntz December 31, 2023 0

      Everybody goes to Coney Island nowadays, and yet...

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• Brooklyn
• Marriage and Divorce
• Women

Public Love for the Romance of Elopement [published Sep. 21, 1884]

jpkntz October 19, 2023 0

      Roma Sickles, General Sickles step-sister, who eloped with...

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• Brooklyn
• Judges
• Long Island
• Writers and Editors

Tom Kinsella Tours the Hempstead Jail [published Mar. 8, 1885]

jpkntz July 31, 2023 0

      “Tom” Kinsella, the late politician and journalist of...

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• Brooklyn
• Impostors
• Royalty

The (American) Tichborne Claimant [published Feb. 3, 1884]

jpkntz July 23, 2023 0

      I see the Tichborne claimant’s time is nearly...

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• Actors
• Brooklyn
• Dance
• Eccentrics

Lola Montez, Smoking [published Nov. 13, 1881]

jpkntz July 15, 2023 0

      An old friend of mine, who was for...

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• Brooklyn
• Hotels
• Steamboats

Coney Island “Runners” and the Oceanic

jpkntz July 14, 2023 0

     I went down, along with thousands of my...

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• Brooklyn
• Churches

Henry Ward Beecher On Thin Ice [published Feb. 8, 1885]

jpkntz July 13, 2023 0

      Readin’ the other day an account of the...

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