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Downtown Brooklyn, Part 1

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Downtown Brooklyn, Part 1

Sun, Aug 9, 2026 · 2 PM ET

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Writer and historian Francis Morrone opens a two-part walk through Downtown Brooklyn, once among the country's busiest department-store shopping districts. Part one traces the postwar decline of those retailers and the uncertainty that followed, setting up the neighborhood's later turn toward luxury residential towers.

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