6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1493+ words) Twenty-five years later, Gina Ruberto remembers 9/11 through two very different images. The first is the one most people know: the towers falling, Lower Manhattan disappearing beneath the smoke and debris and a city suddenly thrown into unimaginable chaos. The second…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (397+ words) Brooklyn spent the weekend looking back 250 years, commemorating the Battle of Brooklyn with solemn ceremonies, musical tributes and a large-scale reenactment of the Revolutionary War battle that forever changed the course of the American fight for independence. At Green-Wood Cemetery,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (980+ words) History books routinely talk about how George Washington and the Continental army escaped from Brooklyn after losing a major battle, turning a short-term defeat into a major victory. They, however, rarely explain who helped evacuate the 9,000-strong army after the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (624+ words) Morgan Monaco, president of the Prospect Park Alliance, noted that thousands of park visitors pass through Battle Pass every day without realizing the history that unfolded on the land 250 years ago. Revolutionary War reenactors William Heese, presenting as a captain…...