Lost City will host its first-ever walking tour of Carroll Gardens on Sunday, November 22. That tour filled up so quickly that a second date has been announced for Sunday, December 6. If you’re interested in joining the tour, please make a reservation by emailing lostcitybrooks@gmail.com. The cost is $20.
Lost City: I’m going to try to keep these tours the walking, talking equivalent of the blog. It will not be the history you find in books. Nothing about the Battle of Brooklyn or Peter Stuyvesant. Historians have done that to death and much better, too, than I could. The tour will cover hidden history, maybe some stuff you’ve heard of somewhere, but hopefully a lot of things you’ve never heard of before or even suspected. It will by hyper-local, idiosyncratic, with a light patina of Big Picture, and I will try to include as much living history as I can (though that choice commodity becomes harder and harder to come by as the years progress).
The tour will last roughly 90 minutes. (I don’t think people really want to be on their feet much longer than that.) The cost will be $20. Yours truly, Brooks, will be the host. And the meeting place will by the southwest corner of Henry and Sackett Streets, in front of Naidre’s cafe. (The best way to get there, if you don’t live in the area, is to take the F train to the Carroll Street stop. Walk north on Smith to Sackett, turn left, and walk three blocks to Henry.)
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