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One of the great catchers in baseball history, helping break the color barrier one year after his teammate Jackie Robinson, former Brooklyn Dodger Roy Campanella sits in his wheelchair with his bat and jersey on the day Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field is to be demolished, Feb. 23, 1960.

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In the 1950’s, Giant Marijuana Plants Grew All Over Brooklyn more in comments.

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Have you ever heard of Achtervelt? It was the Dutch name for the Brooklyn neighborhood now called the Flatlands. This 17th-century conveyance written in calligraphic Middle Dutch officially signed over the area from Andries Hudden to Wolphert Gerritsz van Kouwenhoven. 

Andries Hudden conveyance to Wolphert Gerritsz van Kouwenhoven. 1641. N-YHS.

Cataloging of the American Historical Manuscript Collection (AHMC), a group of 12,000 small and unique manuscript collections, is made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Peck Stacpoole Foundation, and the Pine Tree Foundation of New York.

This teamster is managing a team of 40 horses pulling the bandwagon in a parade of Barnum and Bailey Circus, Brooklyn, 1904 (via Vintage Photo LJ)

Brooklyn Bridge, 1914 (New York Times Photo Archives)

“A man in a suit and bowler hat jumping in the air in a backyard in Brooklyn, New York, 1890” (via Retronaut)

I'M FLYING BITCHES! - seriously the first thing that came to mind