Brooklyn Museum
A Kwakwaka’wakw Thunderbird Transformation Mask, from Vancouver Island, is on display at the 'Life, Death, and Transformation in the Americas' exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum February 28, 2013 in New York. Themes of life, death, fertility, and regeneration are explored through pre-Columbian and historical artworks, including many pieces that are rarely on display.
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There was no Metropolitan Museum of Art or Brooklyn Museum, so you went to Green-Wood
NYPD is called to assistance on the '3' train in Brooklyn @ Brooklyn Museum. Man resisting arrest and officer calls for backup. Meanwhile, a woman goes rogue and pays the price...
If Joe Lhota wants to talk ethics and oversight, he should start by explaining why, when he was deputy mayor, the administration threatened to gut funding for a high-needs public school in Flatbush in retaliation for a councilman using his oversight authority, or why he cut city dollars to the Brooklyn Museum because he didn’t like an art displayMore quotes »
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NY's largest cemetery celebrates 175th anniversary
York Tribune founder Horace Greeley and "The Father of Baseball" Henry Chadwick."There was no Metropolitan Museum of Art or Brooklyn Museum , so you went to Green-Wood," he said. The scenic place offered an escape from crowded and unsanitary streets and an Read more »
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Thousands Stay The Course For Brooklyn Half Marathon
About 20,000 runners made their way from Crown Heights to Coney Island today as part of the annual Brooklyn Half Marathon. To view our videos, you need to enable JavaScript. Learn how. install Adobe Flash 9 or above. Install now. Then come back here and 2:05 PM from NY1 Read more »
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City’s Oldest Cemetery, Once Used As Park, Marks 175th Anniversary
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery celebrates 175 years with an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York. Long before Prospect Park, there was Green-Wood Cemetery. “You could in the 19th century come out of the tenements, c from CBS New York Read more »
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Rare John Singer Sargent painting going to auction
NEW YORK A rare painting by American artist John Singer Sargent is coming to a New York City auction. "Marionettes," painted in 1903, could bring between $5 million and $7 million at Sotheby's May 22 sale. Sargent kept the work until his death in 1925. from The Delaware News Journal Read more »
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NY's largest cemetery celebrates 175th anniversary
This May 2, 2013 photo shows the chapel at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery in New York. The 478-acre site is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year and a special exhibition on Green-Wood is opening at the City Museum of New York. While it cannot repl from Beaumont Enterprise Read more »
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Why stay in a hostel when there’s AirBNB?
Email to a friend With the recent demise of Williamsburg’s Zip112 Hostel, it appears Brooklyn has become more hostile to hostels. What’s a poor hipster trying to soak in the scene to do? One solution is Airbnb, a peer-to-peer network for modern day bed-a from Brooklyn Paper Read more »
