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Blocks and Brownstones
Borrowed
English - December 24, 2019 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 164 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture brooklyn censorship librarian neighborhood archive books library publiclibrary reading storytime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Perhaps Brooklyn’s most iconic neighborhood is Bedford-Stuyvesant. The tree-lined streets and grand brownstones have been here for over 150 years, while the Brooklynites who call those brownstones home are constantly changing. In this episode, we tell the story of this neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in different ways: activist Hattie Carthan, writer Paule Marshall, and novelist Naomi Jackson. Read the transcript and check out our book list here: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/blocks-and-brownstones