Thursday, September 1, 2016

GOODBYE ADMIRALS’ ROW, Fort Greene

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From the ForgottenBook… The New York Naval Shipyard, known popularly as the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was established by the federal government in 1801. Robert Fulton’s steamship was built here and launched in 1815; the battleship Maine in 1890, as well as the first angled-deck aircraft carrier, the Antietam, were also built at the Navy Yard. […]

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