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Brooklyn Navy Yard

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Along with the Eerie basin In Red Hook, the Brooklyn Navy Yard is a perfect place for a genealogist to find your ancestors employed. These water front locations were the first large population centers in Brooklyn, and many Immigrants found work and settled within walking distance of these dry docks and ship Building areas. Irish Immigrants resulting from the Potato Famine are found holding these jobs in most circumstances.
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Coney Island Parade

Coney Island USA was founded in the belief that 19th century American popular culture gave birth to a democratic cultural golden age, unique to this country’s history and indispensable to its future. This new age not only invented the Broadway musical, it gave the world jazz, the blues and many new forms of performing and visual arts that emerged from and looked to the populist masses. Now, limited arts funding tends to favor the conservative and classical fine arts, underestimating the seminal qualities of the popular arts, instead abandoning the populist arts to the mutli-billion dollar mass media industries. But the honky-tonk subculture that was once uniquely Coney Island has reemerged as a post-modern trend in entertainment and art. The world is cautiously, slowly, but most certainly reawakening to the importance of Coney Island in American popular culture, and what it stands for. Coney Island USA is there to document, preserve and further the unique arts for the masses, providing national perspective, professional dedication and quality programming for Coney Island as it heads into the 21st century.

Finding Images of old Brooklyn or any historical place or person can be a daunting task. The internet has a wealth of knowledge to pull from, but you have to know how to use it. If you were looking for your own historical images or information, the Library of Congress may have what you are looking for.

Coney Island today is still being used for entertainment.