From the Brooklyn Aerie: January 25, 2012
Did you know that there was once an outdoor tennis club called the Heights Tennis Club at Hicks Street between Grace Court Alley and Remsen Street?
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Al Capone is usually associated with Chicago, but he had strong ties to Brooklyn. Not only was he born here, but he went to public school here, got his famous scar in a brawl in a Coney Island bar, and was married in a church in Carroll Gardens.
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Edgar Allan Poe made no bones about his feelings toward Brooklyn. According to a new book — New York Diaries 1609-2009 — he wrote in his diary, “I know few towns which inspire me with so much disgust and contempt.”