Okay, I am a giant nerd but this is very exciting to me. The entire run of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle is archived online. I just did a search for my address and found many a respectable young woman looking for work as chambermaids who could be called on at my address, perhaps it was some kind of boarding house. I also found an account of a storm that tore the roof off the building, the account of a murder that occured at the address where the witness and her husband owned a store and lived in the back, and the account from 1883 of an angry detective who accused a judge that "things run pretty close in this court" (oooooh) after the judge let the defendants (who resided at my address) off because the owner of the store from which they stole pants did not show up in court.
It's very cool. Or I am very nerdy.
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
Oooh, I also read about "John King's Adventure" - Apparently Young (24) Mr. King of # Dean Street fell in front of the Atlantic Avenue Trolley and got some ugly bruises on his head. After he was treated at the hospital he was locked up for intoxication! Yay!
It's very cool. Or I am very nerdy.
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
Oooh, I also read about "John King's Adventure" - Apparently Young (24) Mr. King of # Dean Street fell in front of the Atlantic Avenue Trolley and got some ugly bruises on his head. After he was treated at the hospital he was locked up for intoxication! Yay!
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