May, 2020 - South Brooklyn Network

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Month: May 2020

New York City on May 30, 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, shoppers at the Brooklyn Heights Farmers Market are greeted with a new reality and new rules. ©Mark D Phillips

New York Covid City

By Mark D Phillips May 31, 2020 News & Stories Comments are Disabled

Brooklyn and New York City will forever be changed by Covid-19. Photographs and story from Saturday, May 30, 2020, by Mark D Phillips

Anna Schwartz, Louis Valentino, Jr. Park and Pier, Red Hook, April 2020; BHS COVID-19 collection, 2020.003; Brooklyn Historical Society.

COVID-19 Project documents our new Brooklyn reality

By Mark D Phillips May 27, 2020 News & Stories Comments are Disabled

The Brooklyn Historical Society is actively collecting material related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which is impacting daily life in ways no one could predict. The organization is asking for all of our help. The goal is to document and preserve the collective experiences of our community during the crisis, […]

NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifting off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:33 p.m. EDT May 27, from Launch Complex 39A in Florida

NASA returns to Manned Launches

By Mark D Phillips May 24, 2020 Beyond Brooklyn Comments are Disabled

The launch on Wednesday, May 27, 2020, at 4:32pm, marks NASA’s first manned mission from the Space Coast of Florida since the Space Shuttle Atlantis returned to earth on August 31, 2011.

BHS historian Nalleli Guillen looks at a different object every week in the BHS collection, and every week brings a new guest for an in-depth discussion of local history.

Bite Size History from BHS

By Mark D Phillips May 16, 2020 News & Stories Comments are Disabled

The Brooklyn Historical Society presents their new 5-part weekly series, Bite-Size History, starting Friday, May 22, with BHS historian Nalleli Guillen providing in-depth looks at intriguing objects in the museum’s collection.