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	Pigtown, Brooklyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pigtown formerly described a neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, existing as such until approximately the end of the 19th century.
		Pigtown was at the southern periphery of the then City of Brooklyn where it bordered the Town of Flatbush.
		These farms had previously been closer to the heart of Brooklyn City, but pressure to move them resulted then (as now) with their being moved as close to the political border of Brooklyn City as possible, and at the border of its neighbor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pigtown,_Brooklyn (186 words)

	New York Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Long into the night, Brooklyn resounded with clanging cowbells, popping toy cannons and firecrackers; there were bonfires and dancing in the streets, wild cheering, auto horns sounding and spoons banging against pots and pans.
		The Dodgers are Brooklyn," and their buttons reading "Keep the Dodgers in Brooklyn." Robert Moses published his opinions in an article, modestly entitled "Robert Moses and the Battle of Brooklyn," in the July 22, 1957, Sports Illustrated.
		He betrayed the secret that the game is a business, assaulting the fans’ romantic attachment to the team, the set of illusions against which all talk of profit and loss, demographic shifts and market forces struggles in vain.
	www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=6029 (1752 words)

	Brooklynn Neighborhoods - Upper Eastside, SoHo, Tribeca, Harlem. Manhattan Realtor.
		The Battle of Brooklyn was fought across Kings CountyOn August 27, 1776, the Battle of Long Island (also known as the Battle of Brooklyn) was the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War.
		The City of Brooklyn thrived in the 1890s, with consolidation in Kings County and Greater New YorkToward the end of the 19th century, the City of Brooklyn experienced its final, explosive growth spurt.
		Many Brooklyn ethnic neighboroods established in the first half of the 20th century developed as offshoots of second-generation Americans escaping the slums of Manhattan.
	newyork.point2agent.com /Brooklynn_Area/page_942732.html (1964 words)

	Brooklyn's Stadium
		The Brooklyn Superbas (later to be renamed Dodgers) played out their early history in Washington Park, a small, wooden ballpark near the Gowanus Canal.
		It was four miles from the Brooklyn Bridge, midway between Bedford and Flatbush, both of which were fashionable sections of Brooklyn.
		The project was met with support from the city, because the government felt that it was an important project for Brooklyn.
	www.mapsites.net /gotham/webpages/justinspiegel/brooklynspark.html (754 words)

	Brooklyn
		There aren't many Brooklyn streets to be found, although people do travel quite a bit by the trolleys that gave the Dodgers -- originally the Trolley Dodgers, named after all those Brooklyn residents who risked life and limb on a daily basis jumping across the ubiquitous trolley tracks -- their name.
		Brooklyn, that is. The old limestone and brick brownstones had iron-work patterns on heavy wooden doors.
		Although it is one of the few Brooklyn mysteries approaching the streets of Marine Park, tucked in between southern Flatbush Avenue and Sheepshead Bay, in the hands of Robert Leigh, Brooklyn is reduced to a few street names (some of which are fictional) and a sprinkling of storefronts.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /monkshould/Brooklyn.htm (12137 words)

	Week 8 Readings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Another example of resistance to the department came in the case of a Brooklyn woman who protested against the forcible removal of her child to the Kingston Avenue Hospital in Brooklyn on the ground that the child did not have infantile paralysis, but would catch it from other children in the hospital.
		Some complaints of the collection of garbage in Manhattan and Brooklyn were also received, and a number of witnesses said that not only was this garbage allowed to stand for hours, but that numerous cats fed upon it, and that, when it was finally removed, it was hauled away in open carts.
		Policemen were sent to visit the back yards of tenement houses in Brooklyn yesterday, and were instructed not only to give the dwellers directions as to cleaning up, but to summon the offenders to court in the more serious cases of violation of the laws of cleanliness and health.
	eee.uci.edu /clients/bjbecker/PlaguesandPeople/week8h.html (18182 words)

	Ebbetts Field
		There is a story about Chester slipping a note to giving a note to Pete Reiser, Brooklyn's center fielder, and asking him to give it to manager Leo Durocher.
		Wyatt's losing it." Leo the Lip (who visited Hilda in the hospital after her second heart attack) thought the note came from team president Larry McPhail because he had seen Reiser conversing with the GM moments before; so upon reading the note, he began warming up reliever Hugh Casey.
		Brooklyn's catcher was on third, pitcher Dazzy Vance was on second, and infielder Chick Fewster was on first.
	www.baseball-statistics.com /Ballparks/LA/Ebbetts.htm (2138 words)

	BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
		Charlie was 23 years old when he started working for the Brooklyn baseball club as clerk, bookkeeper, and scorecard salesman during its inaugural season in the Interstate League in 1883, and his ascent in the Dodgers organization dovetailed with the history of the borough.
		Located between the Bedford and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn, the land had two primary benefits: it was affordable and adjacent to the tracks of nine separate trolley lines.
		After Brooklyn victories the owners smilingly received the congratulations of their customers; after losses Ebbets and Steve McKeever, the older and more outgoing of the brothers, often engaged the fans in good-natured debates, loudly defending themselves and their players.
	bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=a&bid=877&pid=3973 (1449 words)

	Ballparkwatch -- Ebbets Field / Brooklyn Dodgers / 1913-1957
		During the heyday of the Dodgers, Brooklyn was the melting pot of New York City.
		Hilda Chester is still renowned in baseball circles as the ultimate Dodgers fan: she sat out in the left-center-field bleachers with her cowbell (her doctor forbade her to yell after she suffered a heart attack).
		Brooklyn didn't give up on the Dodgers (attendance in 1957 was well over a million -- pretty good for its day); the Dodgers gave up on Brooklyn.
	www.ballparkwatch.com /stadiums/past/ebbets_2.htm (2069 words)

	1906 News..June
		Surgeon MOORE of the Brooklyn Hospital, cauterized the wound.
		The Brooklyn man jumped from a rowboat intending to swim around it and was soon at the mercy of the waters.
		Ambulance Surgeon MOORE was summoned from the Brooklyn Hospital and when he arrived he found that the blade of the knife had penetrated HALL's left lung and internal hemorrhages had set in and he was hurriedly removed to the hospital.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Newspaper/BSU/1906.News.June.html (21724 words)

	Newsletter
		Had you been walking around Brooklyn 45 years ago yesterday, chances are you would have come across a lot of very sad people, especially sad baseball fans.
		One of the first bits of history was that the team, whose only official name since 1883 had been "The Brooklyn Baseball Club," decided to make "the Dodgers," one of the many nicknames used by the press to refer to them, their official name.
		Brooklyn grew, crowds grew, and the stadium grew, building one grandstand after another.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=19397 (759 words)

	Cultural restoration - baltimoresun.com
		BROOKLYN, N. - There's a new Viennese restaurant on Lafayette Avenue here, and you'd better make reservations early if you want to get in on a theater night.
		Owner Thomas Ferlesch, a longtime Brooklyn resident, quit his job after 11 years as executive chef of Manhattan's Cafe des Artistes to capitalize on what he calls new energy in the neighborhood - energy that he attributes to BAM.
		As one of the first major restoration projects to get under way in Brooklyn in many years, Hardy says, BAM paved the way for the larger renewal effort, and the Hippodrome can do the same.
	www.baltimoresun.com /entertainment/visitor/bal-to.bam01oct01,0,4580931.story (902 words)

	Brooklyn On Line - Re: Re: Pigtown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The best thing a scumbag Pigtown : resident could ever hope to become was a city worker, : so they could slack off for their entire crummy : lives.
		Pigtown women usually ended up as prostitutes : working the dock areas.
		A Pigtown girl's fream was : to marry a garbageman or a gangster.
	www.brooklynonline.com /wwwboard/messages/4205.html (174 words)

	Pigtown (a novel) - Caunitz, William J.
		Part of their turf is a little enclave in Brooklyn called Pigtown, because until quite recently people actually kept pigs and other animals there and had small market gardens.
		Pigtown is jerked out of its sleepy obscurity when, in one of its ramshackle old houses, the body of a very dead Mafia wise guy turns up in a refrigerator.
		The investigation of the hit on Beansy Rutolo opens up a volcanic fissure in the NYPD, and the resulting corruption that is revealed puts Stuart and his cops in mortal peril.
	www.nooksofbooks.com /si/203-2722.html (269 words)

	Book Again - Folklore Archive!
		And yet, when I was young and small, the Dodgers were Brooklyn natives, stolen away, sold out at the end of the fifties for promises of greener pastures in the Golden West (in which an entire community was destroyed to make room, in Chavez Ravine, for the new Stadium).
		And it is thus that now, in mid-2001, Brooklyn has a baseball team for the first time in half a century.
		In Brooklyn's early days, the team's fans would have to dart across busy streets, dodging the electric trolley cars to get to the playing field - hence that team's original name: the "Trolley Dodgers".
	www.bookagain.com /folklore01e.html (1294 words)

	Flashbacks \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Despite a first-place finish in 1900 and a bona fide star in Zach Wheat, Charles Ebbets' Brooklyn Dodgers fell to the National League cellar in the first decade of the century.
		By 1911, Ebbets had decided that the best way to drag his second-class team out of the cellar was to build them a first-class facility, even though the only plot of land he could afford was in an unsavory area of Flatbush known as Pigtown.
		Walter O'Malley moved the team to Los Angeles three years later, leaving the empty stadium to be demolished in 1960 to make room for a block of apartment buildings.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/features/flashbacks/04_09_1913.stm (465 words)

	The Preacher
		His playground was Ebbets Field, the long demolished ballfield at Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, and many of his legendary teammates and opponents fill the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown: Leo Durocher, Walter Alston, Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Branch Rickey, Stan Musial, Willie Mays, Joe DiMaggio, and Mickey Mantle.
		In spite of the tremendous pressure heaped on Robinson as the first fl player allowed to play in the majors in the century, he hit.297, led the league in stolen bases, sparked the team to the pennant, and the first to be named National League Rookie of the Year.
		Preacher Roe had 12 years in the majors, seven of them with the Brooklyn Dodgers where his team never finished less than third, was in World Series three times (1949, 1952, 1953), lost the pennant by two games in 1950, and by only one in 1951.
	www.chatterfromthedugout.com /preacher.htm (3105 words)

	Brooklyn Real Estate Agents, Brooklyn Homes For Sale, REALTORS and Brooklyn
		HomeGain provides Brooklyn, New York real estate information and resources to guide homeowners and homebuyers through the process of selling and buying a house, condo or other Brooklyn realty property.
		HomeGain has services to help you find a top Brooklyn real estate broker or agent, get the value of your Brooklyn home and a comparative market analysis (CMA), view Brooklyn real estate and MLS listings, prepare your home for sale, and more.
		Cuando se registre para encontrar un agente de bienes raices en Brooklyn, simplemente indique que necesita un agente que habla Español.
	www.homegain.com /local_real_estate/NY/brooklyn.html (468 words)

	Nursevillage.com - Your Personal Side : City Guides : Baltimore : Neighborhoods : South Baltimore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Brooklyn and Curtis Bay combine the advantages of living near the Inner Harbor with small town USA.
		There are two very active community associations serving residents directly: Concerned Citizens for a Better Brooklyn, historically active on environmental issues in Baltimore City; and the Community of Curtis Bay Association values the areas history and culture through various neighborhood improvement projects.
		This is because of its proximity to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station (now museum) just west of the community from which pigs were once driven to the abattoirs.
	www.nursevillage.com /nv/content/personalside/travel/baltimore/neighborhoods/bt_nei_south.jsp (2032 words)

	Ebbets Field
		Location: 55 Sullivan Place, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn (about three miles south by southeast down Flatbush Avenue from the Manhattan Bridge).
		In the winter of 1931-32, the double deck was extended from third base to the left field corner and across to center field.
		Ebbets Field: Brooklyn's Baseball Shrine by Joseph McCauley.
	www.ballparks.com /baseball/national/ebbets.htm (746 words)

	Federal League Ballparks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Washington Park was located in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn on 4th Avenue and 1st Street.
		It was originally built in 1898 at a cost of $60,000 and was the home of the then named Brooklyn Superbas.
		In 1913, the Dodgers moved to a section of Brooklyn called Pigtown and played at Ebbets Field.
	www.toyou.com /fl/ballparks/bp_bkn.html (77 words)

	eBay - Book: Pigtown (ISBN: 078600293X) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		In the little Brooklyn enclave called Pigtown, the body of a Mafia wiseguy turns up in a refrigerator.
		Based on a headline-making true story, Pigtown is an electrifying tale of organized crime and big-city corruption at the highest levels of the NYPD.
		The murder of small-time hood Beansy Rutolo in the Brooklyn neighborhood dubbed ``Pigtown'' has a special significance for Lieutenant Matthew Stuart: the deceased's unexpected testimony once saved Matt's father from being kicked off the job for political reasons.
	product.ebay.com /Pigtown_ISBN_078600293X_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ1059107 (461 words)

	Baseball . About the Film \| PBS
		In 1909, a man named Charles Hercules Ebbets began secretly buying up adjacent parcels of land in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, including the site of a garbage dump called Pigtown because of the pigs that once ate their fill there and the stench that still filled the air.
		By the time it was completed a year later, Pigtown had been transformed into Ebbets Field — baseball's newest shrine, where some of the game's greatest drama would take place.
		In the years to come, Dodger fans would see more bad times than good, but hardly care, listen to the southern cadences of a pioneer broadcaster, and witness first-hand baseball's finest moment — when a fl man wearing the number 42 trotted out to first base.
	www.pbs.org /kenburns/baseball/about (706 words)

	The BROOKLYN Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		The Brooklyn Diary is a collection of narratives written by folks who grew up in Brooklyn and are willing to share a special moment of their past with visitors to this site.
		We're looking for writing that evokes visual and emotional memories of life in Brooklyn in the past, with the emphasis on Brooklyn.
		Details should be as Brooklyn-specific as possible, and capture a time and place that readers who grew up in Brooklyn will not only recognize, but for whom there will be significant empathy.
	brooklynboard.com /diary.html (343 words)

	Discussions
		That's where I learned that the Brooklyn neighborhood formerly called Pig Town -- thanks to the many swine farms that used to exist there -- was renamed "Wingate" for the newly-arrived (1950's) high school.
		When the Health Department of Brooklyn arrived, the pigs were sent to the pens on the Flatbush side, where the Department's powers failed to reach.
		The multi-decade battle to banish the pig farms from Brooklyn and the adjacent areas has a wider context that I won't go into, on this, my first posting.
	www.gothamcenter.org /discussions/viewthread.cfm?ID=1100&ForumID=33 (738 words)

	New York City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-12)
		Surrounded by the handsome apartment houses of the truly rich, it has sheltered the truly poor: paupers in tarpaper shacks during the Great Depression, the homeless and desperate of every generation since it was built in the 1800s.
		Walking north inside the park, surrounded today by flowers, lawns and trees, you pass through what was once called Pigtown.
		Before the park came along to supplant it, this was a noxious little suburb, inhabited by poor, mostly Irish immigrants.
	www.nynewsday.com /other/special/nyc-parkfinal,0,5615602.story?coll=nyc-politics-bottom-promo (1129 words)

	Ebbets-Field.com Preserving Brooklyn's Lost Shrine
		In the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the official address was 55 Sullivan Place which is located on the corner of Sullivan Place and McKeever Place.
		He began secretly purchasing parcels of land in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn known as Pigtown.
		Since the team's birth, local baseball writers began using catchy phrases in referring to the "The Brooklyn Base Ball Club." When the team debuted in the Major Leagues' American Association in 1883, reporters referred to the team as the "Grays." The logic was simple, it was the team's uniform color.
	www.ebbets-field.com /FAQ (537 words)

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