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Six on NY: Juan Gonzalez: Celebrating the Young Lords; The Story of Brooklyn Heights; Amid Newark's water crisis, A Judge Refused to Hire a Party Boss’s Aide. A Demotion Followed; How the Kosciuszko Bridge got its wonderfully bewildering name; questions about why it's taking so long to resolve; 1938. "Shoe repair establishment on East 63rd Street."; Watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice in Strikingly Restored Footage (1931)




Amid Newark's water crisis, questions about why it's taking so long to resolve





Watch Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Taking Batting Practice in Strikingly Restored Footage (1931)

"What's more, it shows them moving at real-life speed. "Fox Movietone sound cameras made slow-motion captures of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig at batting practice during an exhibition practice in Brooklyn, New York," writes uploader Guy Jones (whose other baseball videos include Ruth hitting a home run on opening day the same year and Ruth's last appearance at bat a decade later). "With modern technology, we can witness this footage adjusted to a normal speed which results in a very high framerate."







In other words, the film shows Ruth and Gehrig not just moving in the very same way they did in real life, but captured with a smoothness uncommon in newsreel footage from the 1930s. For comparison, Jones includes at the end of the video "more footage of the practice (shot at typical fps) and the original un-edited slow-mo captures."
Ferry House Foot of Montague Street, 1850. From the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.jpg
Brooklyn Borough Hall and Columbus Park.jpg
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old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters on Jay Street, built in 1892 in a style most unusual for the neighborhood — Richardsonian Romanesque Revival..jpg
The Dime Savings Bank of Brooklyn is an oddity among the old retail shops of Fulton Street but its classical architecture has helped it survive the wrecking ball..jpg
Brooklyn Borough Hall in 1908 with its new neighbor, the Temple Court Building (constructed 1901)..jpg
Downtown Brooklyn in 1892, a year of momentous change for the neighborhood. Here you see the elevated railroad snaking up Fulton Street with Brooklyn City Hall on the far left..jpg
The scene just north of Brooklyn Borough Hall, in a photo taken in the early 1900s. The Henry Ward Beecher monument would be moved further north with the creation of Cadman Plaza..jpg
Ninth Street in Brooklyn in the 1940s..jpg
A 1852 season ticket to a Brooklyn public bath issued to “Mr. Walter Whitman.”.jpg
The MCC is one of two federal pretrial facilities in New York City; Metropolitan Detention Center, located on the waterfront in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, is the other.jpg
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The women of the National Women’s Life-Saving League, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, 1914. Rita Greenfield is fourth from the left.jpg
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One of the early foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1872.jpg
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Seen from South Eighth and Berry Streets in Brooklyn, 1935.jpg
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The Kerner commission confirmed that nervous police and National Guardsmen sometimes fired their weapons recklessly after hearing gunshots. Above, police patrol the streets during the 1967 Newark Riots..jpg
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The National Guard in the streets of Newark, July 1967.jpg
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A Bronx Tale - Disposable People, the Legacy of Slavery, and the Social Death of Kalief Browder .pdf
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Reapers president Eddie Cuevas and his mother in their South Bronx apartment, 1972..jpg
Reapers gang members try to clean up their South Bronx neighborhood, 1972..jpg
manhattanview1837.0New York from Brooklyn Heights [The Hill-Bennett-Clover view.], 1837.jpg
Caption from LIFE. On a Bronx street are names important to the Reapers Eddie, his girl friend Yvette, Con and Mr. Koo..jpg
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The 1892 Federal Building and Post Office with a tribute to Henry Ward Beecher (which once sat closer to Brooklyn Borough Hall)..jpg
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