History

Good morning. Today is the 262nd day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of September 18, 1902, reported that for several months, officers had found that articles of jewelry and clothing were missing, without being able to trace the thefts.

Good morning. Today is the 261st day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Sept. 17, 1900, tells us that Tammany Hall boss Richard Croker was charging that upstate Republicans were causing the price of ice to rise.

Good morning. Today is the 258th day of the year. The September 14, 1902 issue of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported on a county fair sponsored by the Cortelyou Club, an organization of Flatbush businessmen.

Good morning. Today is the 257th day of the year. It’s not often that the entire front page of a newspaper is devoted to one story, but page one of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for Sept.

Good morning. Today is the 256th day of the year. It’s been a long time since there were woods near Sheepshead Bay, but that’s where a kidnapped girl, Ellen Nagorsky of Midwood, was found by police, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle of September 12, 1901.

Good morning. Today is the 255th day of the year. In Brooklyn history, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle for this date in 1902 carried an article about poor water pressure in new apartment buildings in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Good morning. Today is the 254th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle for Sept. 10, 1882, reported on the “curious traffic in trade” of tarantulas and their nests. It seems that one Leo Fleishman started to gather the deadly creatures’ nests to sell to curiosity seekers.

Today, the only passenger railroad line that goes through Brooklyn is the LIRR line on Atlantic Avenue.

Good morning. Today is the 251st day of the year. The Brooklyn Eagle of Sept. 7, 1884, printed some observations by a reporter who traveled to the city’s namesake, Breukelen, the Netherlands.