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Happy Pride Month! Events to Commemorate and Celebrate Pride in and Around Brooklyn Heights

By on June 1, 2024 11:16 am in 11201, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, Events, History, Pride Month

Pride Month honors the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 — the birth of the modern Queer Rights movement. In the 1950’s, Brooklyn Heights became the center of the City’s gay culture, with the first gay bar in Brooklyn, Tony Bonner’s Supper Club, opening at 80 Montague St. Read more about the Supper Club and see photos of the […]

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Brooklyn Historical Society This Week

By on June 4, 2017 6:15 pm in 11201, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn History, Demographics, History, Immigration, LGBTQ issues.

This Tuesday evening, June 6 at 6:30 (all programs begin at 6:30 PM unless otherwise noted) the Brooklyn Historical Society will present, from its “Tales from the Vault” series, “Adopting Brooklyn as a Home,” featuring accounts by Puerto Rican, West Indian, European, and African immigrants to Brooklyn. “BHS archivist Brett Dion brings Brooklyn history to […]

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