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The Brownstone Detectives
@BrownstoneDetec
Investigating #NYC house histories - one #brownstone at a time. Do you know the #history of YOUR house?
Jun 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
No. 176 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS (1926) The home of Judge Thomas G. Sherman, counsel to Henry Ward Beecher during the famous Beecher-Tilton scandal. Fatally ill in 1900, his kidney was removed in his bedroom, but he died 4 hours later.

#Brooklyn Heights #HouseHistory (@BKLYNlibrary) ImageImage Another snapshot of No. 176 Columbia Heights from approx. the '20s (before its alteration).

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Jun 5, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
HOW CASEY THE COP SPELT “KOSCIUSZKO” (1904) An apocryphal "tail" about a #Brooklyn policeman who came across a dead horse on a difficult-to-spell street. tinyurl.com/tu3wehp7 Image “There was once an Irish policeman who was responding to the presence of a dead horse on Kosciuszko Street." Image