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Whitman’s Brooklyn

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I stumbled across Whitman’s Brooklyn: A Virtual Visit circa 1850 [http://www.whitmansbrooklyn.org], a website of images of mid-19th-century Brooklyn. As best I can tell, this fascinating site is one person’s labor of love and not a project of any university, museum, or other institution. Still, it is rich with images and may have some very interesting [...]

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Photos From the Greenpoint/Williamsburg Walking Tour

Posted in Events, Photos, Walking Tours, tagged , , , , , on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On May 2nd, Professor Dan Campo of Morgan State University led City Tech faculty members on a wide-ranging tour of Greenpoint and Williamsburg. As the group explored the industrial past and commercial present of this rapidly gentrifying area, it gained a sense of the changes that have taken place on the Brooklyn Waterfront.
To see [...]

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A Walking Tour of Greenpoint and Williamsburg

Posted in Events, Walking Tours, tagged , , , , on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On Friday 2nd May, we will venture out on an exciting and informative walk of Greenpoint and Williamsburg.
This walk will assist us in understanding the transformation along the waterfront from production to commerce to consumption–and the conflicts that have gone along with those changes.
One of the highlights will be [...]

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Photos from the Walt Whitman Session

Posted in Events, Photos, Seminars, tagged , , , , , , on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On March 7, 2008, NYU Professor Karen Karbiener visited City Tech to discuss Walt Whitman’s Brooklyn. Dr. Karbiener is Master Teacher of Humanities in the General Studies Program at NYU. She is editor of Leaves of Grass: First and Death-Bed Editions (Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005), curator of “Walt Whitman and the Promise of [...]

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Inaugural Public Event: Water and Work: An Interdisciplinary Look at the Brooklyn Waterfront

Posted in Events, tagged , , , , , on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Inaugural Public Event: “Water and Work: An Interdisciplinary Look at the Brooklyn Waterfront”
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 – 3-5pm
This panel event featured three eminent scholars, who focused on the Brooklyn waterfront from their areas of specialization. Professor Karen Karbiener discussed Walt Whitman’s close relationship to the waterfront and its presence in his poetry. Professor Joshua Freeman [...]

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