Tag Archives: history
Advocates say: Put the brook back in Brook Park
Posted on 03. Jun, 2011 by Cheryl Chan.
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Restoring a stream would bring environmental benefits Brook Park takes its name from Mill Brook, whose waters once burbled through today’s Webster and Brook Avenues. Now the environmental organization that helps oversee the park wants to bring the brook back. “What we are trying to do here is make a green park, and a blue [...]
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Blast from Mott Haven’s past recalls an artistic keystone
Posted on 05. Nov, 2009 by Lindsay Lazarski.
For a brief time Fashion Moda is reborn, uniting generations Hundreds of people pass by Third Avenue and 147th Street each day without a second glance at the storefronts that house a nail salon, a hair braiding salon and, hidden from the street, a training school for security guards. There’s no sign that 30 years [...]
