This week all over Brooklyn, there will be celebrations honoring Walt Whitman. With the 200th anniversary of the birth of Brooklyn’s greatest poet, one has to ask the question: Was […]
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Brooklyn Public Library Celebrates Walt Whitmans’ 200th Birthday
Celebrations at the Brooklyn Public Library are underway marking the legendary writer, journalist, and poet Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday. Whitman was born on 5/21/1819 and worked as a journalist for […]
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Walt Whitman’s Writing About North Brooklyn
For most of us when we think about Brooklyn’s greatest poet Walt Whitman we think about his poetry and not about his prose. However, Whitman like many creative people today […]
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Before L-pocalypse: A History of Transit in North BK
As the MTA’s planned 15-month suspension of L train service between Brooklyn and Manhattan draws near, all 200,000 daily riders of the L-pocalypse have been asking the same question: how […]
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Weekend Music Picks: Chessboxing Edition (2/4 – 2/7)
Walt Whitman, the American poet, essayist and Brooklynite, once nobly argued against being consistent and logical all the time: Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am […]
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Renegade Craft Fair, Collabfest, Taste Talks – What’s Happening, Greenpoint? (9/10–9/16)
There are more events in our weekly calendar. Submit Greenpoint events, too! WEDNESDAY 9/10 # Savory Fall Pie Class @ Pie Corps (77 Driggs) 6:45pm, $75, In this class you will make four pies: […]