September 2011: 30 Years Ago in the Slope
From the September 2011 Civic News article, “Ten Years Ago in the Slope (…and 20 and 30, Too), September 2011.”
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From the September 2011 Civic News article, “Ten Years Ago in the Slope (…and 20 and 30, Too), September 2011.”
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From the September 2011 Civic News article, “Ten Years Ago in the Slope (…and 20 and 30, Too), September 2011.”
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Mort Fleischer has spent more than 40 years helping to make Park Slope a better place to live. In honor of his hard work, he received this year’s George Lovgren Volunteer Award
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Civic News is nearing its 75th year of publication. First published by the South Brooklyn Board of Trade in 1938 — which changed its name to the Park Slope Civic Council in the 1960s — the newsletter has reported on events of all sorts around the community.
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From the May 2011 Civic News article, “Ten Years Ago in the Slope (…and 20 and 30, Too), May 2011.”
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From the May 2011 Civic News article, “Ten Years Ago in the Slope (…and 20 and 30, Too), May 2011.”
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From the May 2011 Civic News article, “Ten Years Ago in the Slope (…and 20 and 30, Too), May 2011.”
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Many Park Slope newcomers — and even some longtime residents — may not realize how much Brownstone Brooklyn has changed over the decades, going from a blighted community in the 1960s and ’70s to an often pricey cultural capital today.
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Last November, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to move ahead on plans to include some 600 South Slope buildings in a larger Park Slope Historic District. The LPC is now documenting those historic structures as part of its designation process.
Infamous criminal and prison escape artist Willie Sutton is perhaps best known today for the reason why he robbed banks: “because that’s where the money is.” a Starting his career in crime in Park Slope in 1910, Sutton reached national prominence, but was captured back on Dean Street in 1952.
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