Calendar: Researching Your House, And The Formation of Greater New York

You can learn the tricks of the history trade from a professional this Monday night (Oct. 17). At a Cobble Hill Association meeting, Historian Francis Morrone, a long-time Park Slope resident who specializes in architectural history, will lead a discussion on how to research the history of your home. The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Long Island College Hospital, conference room A. It is free and open to the public.

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On Tuesday, Oct. 25, Manhattan Borough historian Michael Miscione will come to Brooklyn to discuss a touchy subject: the consolidation of New York in 1898. This was when our fair City of Brooklyn was downgraded in its autonomy to a borough. :-(
Miscione will speak about the fierce political battles that surrounded the consolidation in a lecture at the Parish House of the New Utrecht Reformed Church, 18th Avenue at 84th Street, in Bensonhurst. The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m., and admission is free.

This 1893 cartoon shows Father Knickerbocker (a mythical figure who was often used to represent New York) proposing marriage to “Miss Brooklyn”