Brooklyn

In 1890, the Society of Old Brooklynites sent an appeal to the Congress of the United States to request the establishment of a monument to honor the 11,500 prisoners of war who died on board British prison ships during the Revolutionary War. The monument was eventually built and dedicated in 1908…

<p><span class="deck">John Roebling lost his life and his son lost his health, but after sixteen years the incredible Brooklyn Bridge was finished</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">On the theory that the greatest show is people, George Tilyou turned a rich man’s resort into a playground for the masses</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> A postcard version of six tender and crucial rites of passage by the artist Harrison Fisher</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">The city of the departed Dodgers, of Henry Ward Beecher, Walt Whitman, and Coney Island, is ready for its next act as a world-class tourist destination.</span></p>