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Brooklyn Botanic Garden ESSAY# 5 (updated)

Brooklyn is a beautiful and diverse utopia filled with unprecedented amounts of historical knowledge for such a small borough. Many from around the world come to visit this piece of the Metropolis (New York City) to experience its wonders, but … Continue reading

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Another Essay 5 update

To submit your videos, you were supposed to upload it to YouTube and then use the embed code to add it to our Telling Brooklyn Stories map. To complete Essay 5, you had to submit your 300-word piece as a … Continue reading

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Essay 5 Lefferts Historic house

  The Lefferts Historic House is located inside of Prospect Park right next to the Prospect Park Zoo and is the only historic house left in Brooklyn from the late 1600’s. It’s a very interesting place because almost all of … Continue reading

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Barclays

Considering we are learning about iconic land marks such as Forte Greene, Brooklyn Bridge, Navy Yard, BHS, why not pay a visit to the new addition of this historical borough. Since this was built in our generation we can proudly say we were … Continue reading

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Essay 5, Reclaim of the Breukelen Water Front Revised

The post-industrial,Brooklyn Bridge Park, located along the East River, has returned the city’s waterfront edge to public use unlike ever before in it’s more than 300 year history. The Brooklyn waterfront doesn’t just have a storied past but also a promising future. … Continue reading

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Some clarifications and answers about Essay 5

A number of questions have come my way about Essay 5.  I’ve called this assignment “Revision and Reflection” because that’s what you need to do: you need to revise  Essay 4 into a 300-word piece that will accompany your on-site … Continue reading

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