October, 2008
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BHS in the New York Times
BHS on NY1
Check out the clip here.
It’s a piece about the upcoming tours of the Brooklyn Navy Yard that BHS is organizing with BNY and the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment.
Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation on Flickr
Pete Hamill’s Brooklyn Revisited
New York magazine’s 40th Anniversary issue has an article by Pete Hamill, who grew up in Park Slope.
And here’s an article he wrote about Brooklyn for the same magazine in 1969.
Coincidently, our Park Slope Neighborhood and Architectural History Guide launches this Thursday.
The guide includes two Walking Tours of Park Slope and accompanying audio tracks which can be downloaded from our website or through the Brooklyn Historical Society’s podcast on iTunes.
Here’s one track from the audio tour where Pete Hamill’s brothers John and Denis Hamill talk about the street gangs in Park Slope in the 1950s and 60s:
John and Denis Hamill on Park Slope
(warning: contains strong language)