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Brooklyn Bridge Park (New York, N.Y.) -- History

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Brooklyn Waterfront History

Today Brooklyn Bridge Park exists as an 85-acre oasis along Brooklyn's East River Shoreline. But it wasn't always so. In fact, over the past two hundred years, this same scrap of land has been "a site of bustling commerce, a transportation terminal, a refuge for immigrants, an artist and activist center, and much more." This informative website, curated by Brooklyn Bridge Park and Brooklyn...

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/center-for-brooklyn-h...