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The Center for Brooklyn History (CBH, formerly known as the Brooklyn Historical Society) is a museum, library, and educational center founded in 1863 that preserves and encourages the study of Brooklyn's 400-year history. The center's Romanesque Revival building, located at Pierrepont and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights, was designed by ...
Trow was inducted into the Pittsburgh Advertising Hall of Fame "post humorously" (as he would say) in 1999. Trow died at his home in New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, in 1998 at age 72 of a heart attack, a week after taping his role as Bob Dog for the Mister Rogers week "Noisy and Quiet", the last episode of which is dedicated to his memory. His ...
Chico Renfroe - 1st Known African-American PA Announcer in the National Football League for the Atlanta Falcons, late 1970s [4] Other Football Announcers. Kate Scott - 1st Female to Announce NCAA Division I-A (FBS) Football Game with the Pac-12 Football Championship Game
Long-hidden space under Brooklyn Bridge reopens after 15 years — and public is in awe: ‘Huge for the community’ Desheania Andrews, Steve Janoski November 18, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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 is located on a 1.3-mile (2.1 km) plot of land from Atlantic Avenue in the south, under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and past the Brooklyn Bridge, to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge.
In Rogers' hometown of Latrobe, a statue of Rogers on a bench is situated in James H. Rogers Park—a park named for Rogers' father. [203] In 2021, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood —a seven-foot (2.1 m) tall, 3,000-pound (1,400 kg) bronze statue by Paul Day —was dedicated at Rollins College.
John Augustus Roebling (born Johann August Röbling; June 12, 1806 – July 22, 1869) was a German-born American civil engineer. [1] He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
Christopher Lyman Magee (1864) – powerful 19th-century Pittsburgh political boss; Wilson McCandless (Col 1826) – federal judge and candidate for Democratic nomination for President of the United States; Jonas R. McClintock - 8th mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Samuel J. R. McMillan (Col 1846) – Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota