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Today in “people are horrible”: Jackie Robinson statue in Coney Island vandalized with racial slurs, swastika

by Devin Kharpertian August 8, 2013 Comments

From NBC New York:

Categories: Brooklyn Tags: Jackie Robinson

Why Jackie Robinson “Fell In Love With Brooklyn”

by Rick Barry1971 April 15, 2013 Comments

Why Jackie Robinson “Fell In Love With Brooklyn”

From 1947 to 1949, Jackie Robinson lived at 5224 Tilden Avenue, near the Utica Avenue subway stop, which Councilman Juumane Williams wants to make a historic landmark. Actually, that was Robinson’s second Brooklyn home. According to the biography Jackie Robinson by Arnold Rampersad, he first lived at 526 MacDonough Street at the corner of Ralph […]

Categories: Brooklyn, Dodgers Tags: Jackie Robinson, Jackie Robinson House

The Dodgers Lived in Brooklyn. Why Can’t the Nets?

by Rick Barry1971 January 31, 2013 Comments

The Dodgers Lived in Brooklyn. Why Can’t the Nets?

The Jackie Robinson House, 5224 Tilden, where he lived rookie year The decision of Deron Williams to buy a place in Manhattan instead of Brooklyn is a lost opportunity. The Brooklyn Dodgers were beloved in part because they were neighbors. Michael Shapiro of the Columbia Journalism School wrote: The Dodgers were built around a familiar […]

Categories: Brooklyn Tags: brooklyn dodgers, Brooklyn Nets, Deron Williams, duke snider, Jackie Robinson, pee wee reese

Where is the Jackie Robinson Flagpole?

by Devin Kharpertian January 8, 2013 Comments

Where is the Jackie Robinson Flagpole?

Not even a month after Barclays Center, Brooklyn, and the Brooklyn Nets officially commemorated the Jackie Robinson Flagpole, it has disappeared. The flagpole, which once stood in the grounds of former Brooklyn Dodgers home Ebbets Field, was commemorated at a Flagpole Dedication ceremony on December 10th, in an event attended by Brooklyn Nets shooting guard […]

Categories: Brooklyn Tags: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nets, Bruce Ratner, Jackie Robinson, jackie robinson flagpole, Jerry Stackhouse

The Real Reasons for the Rise & Fall of the Dodgers (And What It Means for the Nets)

by Guest Post November 8, 2012 Comments

The Real Reasons for the Rise & Fall of the Dodgers (And What It Means for the Nets)

By MICHAEL SHAPIRO When you grow up in the Brooklyn I knew, which was pretty much the worst possible time – just missing the Dodgers and years before it got so cool – your memories of the place are almost always flat, dull and gray. My Brooklyn, circa 1952 to 1974, (from birth to graduation […]

Categories: Brooklyn Tags: Barclays Center, brooklyn dodgers, Brooklyn history, Brooklyn Nets, Ebbets Field, Jackie Robinson, Robert Moses, suburbs

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