Considered among the city's most notorious slums in the 1940s and 1950s, brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios and beautifully renovated town houses.
Author Suleiman Osman, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, discusses his new book, offering a groundbreaking history of this transformation.
Brooklyn Collection, 2nd floor, Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11238
Wine and cheese at 6:30 P.M. The talk starts promptly at 7 P.M.
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