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One evening in July I had just gotten out of the dentist in downtown Brooklyn — and I am going in and getting out of oral surgeons’ and dentists’ offices a great deal this year; a high starch diet for over 50 years will do that — when I decided to take a walk down [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Street Scenes Tagged with: Boerum Hill Brooklyn Gowanus
The name Boerum pops up a couple of times in the Brooklyn gazzeteer (a map, for those of you in … ah, I won’t finish that joke, I’ll get in trouble). As with so many other somewhat foreign-sounding names in NYC, it commemorates a Dutch colonial family: Willem Jacobse Van Boerum immigrated to New Amsterdam [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Boerum Hill Brooklyn Downtown
