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How it all began…

The Economic Crash of 2008, to many it was a shock. How did it happen? Why did it happen? NPR’s podcast, “Giant Pool of Money”, goes into detail onto what caused this crash not to long ago. Though I am … Continue reading

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Occupy Wall Street

  Occupy Wall Street is about the people fight against bankers and how they are only in this to make money and don’t really care about the people any more.  Before when they use to lend people money they would … Continue reading

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Sewer and population maps at the BHS

My visit to the Brooklyn Historical Society started with a discussion about population, diseases, and living situations. At first we sat in our old seats with our group then after the brief discussion the groups begun to switch tables.  My … Continue reading

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How the Population Shaped Brooklyn

Population density, a measurement of the amount of people living in a certain area. Population density had the biggest impact in how Brooklyn transformed. This goes for practically every city, state, and country that has ever existed actually. In my … Continue reading

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Maps/city planning

In my last visit to the Brooklyn Historical Society building our groups switch stations, which meant that we were looking at now emphasizing on maps. Together with the group we took a look at two very different types of maps. … Continue reading

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Architectural Exhibit

The exhibit in BHS displays a variety of buildings through out New York, some old and some new even buildings that are under construction. It gives me a great perspective view of how people build decades ago and how they … Continue reading

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BHS maps

When we went to the Brooklyn historical society on Wednesday we looked the 20-30s time period. We analyzed things like immigrant population and where the majority lived in Brooklyn and looked at several statistics like disease spread, criminal levels and … Continue reading

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Architecture Expo

A fairly new event is taking place at the Brooklyn Historical Society building. Besides looking through the archives upstairs, at the first level, there is a presentation composed of many different contemporary ideas available. There is, as you probably suspected … Continue reading

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CONTEXT\CONTRAST New Architecture in Historic Districts 1967 to Present

This exhibit concentrates on the land marked districts in new york, and how modern buildings attempt to accommodate the style of the neighborhood it exist in. this was an attempt to Gauge the appropriateness of these structures in relation to … Continue reading

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Slums and Questions

On November 3, I had another english class at the Brooklyn Historic Society. The map that caught my attention was the Slum Clearance Atlas. It was made by the Slum Clearance Committee of New York from 1933 to 1934. The … Continue reading

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