BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- Brooklyn Bridge Park

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BROOKP_171221_006.JPG: History in the Park: Before New York State abolished slavery in 1827, this area was home to Brooklyn's free black community. Peter and Benjamin Croger were among Brooklyn's first abolitionists and advocates for African-American civil rights. Residents established Brooklyn's first black church, an "African School," and a benevolent society.
2. BROOKP_171221_011.JPG: This tablet marks The Brookland Ferry Landing from which point the American Army embarked during the night of August 29th 1776 Under the direction of General George Washington ably assisted by Colonel John Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts
3. BROOKP_171221_015.JPG: "Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are freemen fighting for the blessings of liberty." -- George Washington, August 23, 1776
4. BROOKP_171221_019.JPG: "It is a matter of the utmost importance to prevent the enemy from taking possession of the City of New York and the North River, as they will thereby command the country." -- George Washington, January 8, 1776.
5. BROOKP_171221_025.JPG: The Battle of Long Island began on August 27, 1776. Surrounded and outnumbered, the American Army retreated to their fortifications protecting the Village of Brooklyn and the ferry crossing.
6. BROOKP_171221_031.JPG: On March 17, 1776 the British Army evacuated Boston and prepared to launch an assault on New York. By August 22, 1776 the British had assembled 200 vessels carrying 30,000 soldiers to attack New York.
7. BROOKP_171221_047.JPG: By 1870, ferries along the East River carried 50 million passengers a year.
8. BROOKP_171221_050.JPG: History in the Park: During the 19th century, the East River was choked with ships day and night. On a busy day, several dozen sailing vessels and streamers might have arrived at and departed from Brooklyn piers. Ferryboats carried thousands of commuters across the river, while barges, tugboats, and fishing smacks added to the traffic. Brooklyn depended on this unending flow of boats, goods, and people.
9. BROOKP_171221_060.JPG: Design in the Park: The various shoreline conditions found in the park increase ecological diversity and act as a protective buffer during storms and major floods. A constructed version of a natural coastal environment, The Salt Marsh creates a dynamic tidal ecosystem. Its changing tides and fluctuating water levels help establish a viable shallow-water habitat for fish, birds, and other aquatic life.
10. BROOKP_171221_066.JPG: Note the Statue of Liberty in the distance
11. BROOKP_171221_088.JPG: Squibb Park Edward Robinson Squibb 1819-1900 This park is named in honor of Edward Robinson Squibb, M.D., one of the founders of modern American chemistry and a pioneer in the building of a pharmaceutical industry in the United States. His first small laboratory, opened in 1858, was located just a short distance from this site.
12. BROOKP_171221_092.JPG: History in the Park: In the 1940s, poet W.H. Auden, writer Carson McCullers, composer Benjamin Britten, burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, and other artists lived across the street at 7 Middagh Street. Known as "February House," it became a noted Brooklyn Heights literary outpost, as well as a base for several gay and lesbian artists in the era before the gay rights movement. The house was one of several torn down in the late 1940s to make way for the BQE.
13. BROOKP_171221_121.JPG: September 11 Brooklyn
Wikipedia Description: Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre (34 ha) park on the Brooklyn side of the East River in New York City. Designed by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, the park has revitalized 1.3-mile (2.1 km) of Brooklyn's post-industrial waterfront from Atlantic Avenue in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge. The site includes Brooklyn Piers 1–6, the historic Fulton Ferry Landing, and the preexisting Empire–Fulton Ferry and Main Street Parks. Two Civil War-era structures, Empire Stores and the Tobacco Warehouse, will also be integrated into the park. After the city and state signed a joint agreement in 2002, site planning and project funding proceeded, with construction started in 2008 using land reclaimed using soil from the new World Trade Center site.

Brooklyn Bridge Park is overseen by Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, a not-for-profit entity responsible for the planning, construction, maintenance, and operation of the park. The Corporation's mission is to "create and maintain a world class park that is a recreational, environmental and cultural destination enjoyed by residents of, and visitors to, New York City".
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