Blog posts by Charlie Rudoy

Celebrating Student Research: Brooklyn Connections 2020-21

Charlie Rudoy

Brooklyn Connections is a program run by the Center for Brooklyn History’s education department that cultivates 21st Century learning skills in students and supports teachers with the incorporation of archives materials into curricula.  Click here to view a selection of this year's Brooklyn Connections final projects. 

The Othmer Library at the Center for Brooklyn History
Has gentrification affected the lives of immigrants in Brooklyn? How did Coney Island become the destination it is today? If you could…

Brooklyn Connections Student Projects, an Online Gallery

Charlie Rudoy

Brooklyn Connections is the education division of  the Brooklyn Collection where we focus on cultivating 21st Century learning skills in students and supporting teachers on the incorporation of archives materials into curricula. Click here to view a selection of this year's Brooklyn Connections final projects.

Brooklyn Connections Convocation, in person and in simpler times
Among the many holidays, events, and celebrations that have been upended due to the coronavirus pandemic, a cherished spring tradition here in Brooklyn was cancelled this year.…

Making Award-Winning Connections

Charlie Rudoy

A visitor to the Brooklyn Collection archive this summer will notice an eye-catching display in our exhibition case. Stepping closer, they’ll learn about the Dreamland fire in Coney Island, read political cartoons about the Verrazzano Bridge, and even see a replica of the Farragut Houses public housing project. The visitor will more than likely learn something new about Brooklyn’s history from this exhibition by local researches. They may be surprised to learn that all of these researchers are students.

Brooklyn Connections was awarded this year's Archival Innovator…

If You Can Make It Here, They Won't Take It Anywhere

Charlie Rudoy

They say you can’t go home again. But for a garbage barge called Mobro 4000, after months of sailing through much of the Northern Hemisphere and capturing the attention of the world, home was the only place it could go.  

The Mobro 4000 docks in Brooklyn, Newsday, 1987
                                 The saga of the “world’s best-known garbage scow” touched the borders of several countries. Yet at its heart, it is a New York story. Using contemporary local news…