Brooklyn Was Mine
"Brooklyn of ample hills was mine," Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, by Walt Whitman. This is a place for stories about Brooklyn, New York--its people, its bridges, the trees that grow here, the dead who know it.
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- Sep 25, 2026
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- Jul 5, 2026
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Friday Photo: 9/11 in the Neighborhood (opens the original)
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A Grateful City (opens the original)
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Brooklyn Roses (opens the original)
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May 2, 1890 was Arbor Day. In New York, statewide, a curriculum was implemented to celebrate in which school children read poems about plants and trees and cast their ballots for New York’s state flower. And the winner in New York City…<img alt="" clas
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