From the Brooklyn Aerie: February 29, 2012
Did you know that Spike Lee’s real name is Shelton Jackson Lee?
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Until World War I many of Brooklyn’s elite private clubs refused membership to Catholics and “Hebrews.”
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There’s a gravesite in Green-Wood Cemetery that never fails to sadden those who visit it. It contains the graves of two brothers who fought in the Civil War, one on the Union side, the other on the Confederate side. They both died in the same battle.