In The Bay Ridge Digest Podcast episode 1, we celebrate Mischief Night and Halloween with trips to cemeteries and old houses. We’ll stop by the 5th Avenue B.I.D.’s office, learn from a negotiation expert, and talk about life in Bay Ridge with a local leader.

Highlights:

• Who was Frederick Hardy Jr.?

• The Early History of Bay Ridge, with Aimee Pagano Collin

• Michelle from Anthony’s Butcher Shop

• The Season of Fear, with Eirik Gislason

• Jokes from Freddie Friday

• A Life in Bay Ridge, with Kayla Santosuosso

• Jess from The Bookmark Shoppe

• J. Frank Griffin’s Editorial on the Narrows Bridge

• The Fifth Avenue B.I.D., with Elizabeth Lovejoy

• This Old House, with Aimee Pagano Collin

• Catherine from Cellary

• The Ghosts of New Utrecht Past, with Christopher Wiecha

• Looking Ahead to November

The reading material used in today’s episode included:

• An Historical Sketch of the City of Brooklyn and the Surrounding Neighborhood, 1840 — By J.T. Bailey

• Reminiscences of Old New Utrecht and Gowanus — By Charlotte Rebecca Bangs

• Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 — By Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

• Old Brooklyn In Early Photographs — By William Lee Younger

• Native Americans in Brooklyn — A Primary Source Packet

As well as articles from

• The Bay Ridge Home Reporter

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

• Hey Ridge

And the Obituary of Sonja Bernt Jones from MonarchSociety.com

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