On Monday September 30, the class went on a tour featuring City Tech, The Federal building, post office, Columbus Park, Brooklyn Theater, and finally the Brooklyn Historical Society. Prof. Rosen and Prof. Davis explained each landmark as we passed by. Prof. Rosen explained one of the worst tragedies ever to happen in Brooklyn and that was the fire at the Brooklyn Theater which happened on December 5, 1876. About 300 individuals lost their lives due to the lack of exits and cramped stairwells. This quickly resulted into a reform on the architecture around safety hazards.

Prof. Rosen and Davis then led us to Columbus Park, there we saw the statue of Henry Ward Beecher, who was known for the his speeches on the abolition of slavery. The statue did not express its meaning clearly as it showed Henry Beecher standing at the top of the slaves while the slaves were praising him. We then traveled to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade where we saw the Brooklyn Bridge, Staten Island Ferry, and the Statue of Liberty. Our last stop which was the Brooklyn History Society which was a building that was built out of a red block called Terracotta, only a few buildings in Brooklyn were made of Terracotta. On the outside was a showing of 7 faces, Beethoven, Michelangelo, Gutenberg, Shakespeare, Columbus, Benjamin Franklin, and two faces implying the Indians and the Norse. Inside of the Brooklyn History Society was a library which seemed to me looked like a place for books with only few quantity. The library was had technical specs that would protect the books from light and had a rule that if you were taking a picture, flash was not allowed.

At the end of the day I can safely say that I enjoyed the tour Prof. Rosen and Davis took us on was very interesting because I never would have guessed such places were so close to my college campus at City Tech.