ON THIS DAY IN 1876, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “A hundred years have wrought a marvelous change in Brooklyn. Its four thousand inhabitants of 1776 have multiplied to half a million; the march of improvement has swept onward past ‘Brooklyn Church’ and ‘Bedford Four Corners,’ and Bushwick and Gowanus, and a great city, with […]
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