Tag: Atlantic Avenue

The Brooklyn Academy of Music: Enduring floods, fires and snobbery to become New York’s oldest home for the arts

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date June 1, 2012
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PODCAST One of America’s oldest cultural institutions, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (or BAM) has an unusual history that spans over 150 years and two separate locations. We trace the story from the earliest roots of a Manhattan-Brooklyn rivalry and a discussion of high-class tastes to the greatest stars of the performing arts, including a couple… Read More

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Brooklyn’s subway origins, at an insane intersection

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date August 19, 2010
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The first subway into Brooklyn — not a product of Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT), but of an extension of the original Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) — terminated at what is today the Atlantic Avenue-Pacific Street Station, at the crossroads of several streets and a hub for the Long Island Railroad and a station for the… Read More

Tags Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City Subway