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The Pride of Brooklyn: Ebbets Field and the Glory Days of the Brooklyn Dodgers

May 18, 2018May 18, 2018 Bowery Boys 11317 Views 0 Comments baseball, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, Flatbush, Jackie Robinson, Robert Moses

PODCAST The Brooklyn Dodgers were more than just a baseball team and their home Ebbets Field was more than just

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Pop Culture 

The first Sherlock Holmes film ever was made in Union Square. And the second? In Flatbush, Brooklyn

January 29, 2014January 14, 2015 Bowery Boys 2610 Views 1 Comment Classic Film, Classic Theaters, Flatbush, Sherlock Holmes, Union Square

Above: While Sherlock Holmes made his film debut in 1900, he hit the stage a bit earlier.  William Gillette was

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Sports 

‘Arctic blasts’, union rousers and hunchbacks: Ten bits of trivia about Ebbets Field’s opening day, 100 years ago today

April 9, 2013January 15, 2015 Bowery Boys 946 Views 1 Comment Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, Flatbush, Philadelphia, Sports, unions

Inside Ebbets Field, 1913, Library of Congress The first-ever regular season baseball game at Ebbets Field was played 100 years

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Mysterious Stories 

Mysteries and Magicians of New York: Whimsical spirits, scary legends, strange magic and the original ghost busters

October 19, 2012August 11, 2018 Bowery Boys 2247 Views 0 Comments Carnegie Hall, Ear Inn, Flatbush, Ghost Stories, Harry Houdini, Yorkville

A session with a ouija board, a haunting illustration from a piece of 1901 sheet music ‘There’s A Charm About

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