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| #686257 in eBooks | 2009-07-20 | 2009-07-20 | File type: PDF||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn|By Victor Fortezza|As a lifelong resident of Brooklyn, I looked forward to Mr. Ditta's book. I was not disappointed. Gravesend, Brooklyn is part of the Arcadia Publishing Then and Now series. From its handsome cover, through its nearly 100 pages, to its sepia-like rear cover, it offers a wonderful pictorial history of a large swath of the Borough o|About the Author|In Gravesend, Brooklyn lifelong resident Joseph Ditta, reference librarian at the New-York Historical Society, traces the evolution of this historic neighborhood through a fascinating selection of rare and never-before-published views.
Permanently settled in 1645, the farming town of Gravesend, Long Island, was annexed to the city (now borough) of Brooklyn, New York, in 1894. Few reminders from Gravesend's rural days survive around the urban landscape it has become. Even its more recent past is quickly disappearing.
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