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Prison Ship Martyrs Monument		Brooklyn Tech High School
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NYC - Brooklyn - Fort Greene: Fowler Gore - Edward Fowler Statue
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This statue by Henry Baerer (1837–1908) honors Brooklynite and Civil War hero Brigadier General Edward Fowler (1828–1896). Fowler was born in Manhattan, and his family moved to Brooklyn when he was still an infant. He studied to be an accountant at Brooklyn Gaslight before a youthful military career; by 18 he was a first sergeant. In 1847, Fowler - then a lieutenant - began a long association with the 14th Regiment of the New York State National Guard. The regiment was largely comprised of Brooklyn tradesmen, businessmen or members of the Brooklyn Fifth Fire Brigade. In 1852, then-Lieutenant Colonel Fowler married Annie Cook at the Methodist church on Hanson Place, Fort Greene; they would have three children - Sara Emma (1853), Robert (1854) and William (1869). At the outbreak of the Civil War, the 14th Regiment was under Fowler’s command and stationed in Fort Greene Park. Two months later, Fowler’s regiment was engaged in combat at the Bull Run in Virginia. Their ferocity in battle, coupled with their distinctive bright red breeches, earned them the name, the “Red-Legged Devils.” The regiment was well-regarded for its spirit and camaraderie, and was fiercely loyal to Fowler, affectionately known as “Ned.” They subsequently fought at the Battle of Manassas, also called Second Bull Run, on August 30, 1862, and there the regiment was nearly destroyed, losing 860 of its 960 members. Fowler survived, though he was hospitalized with “a lot of lead” in his thigh from skirmishes at Groveton. While convalescing at Alexandria, he was promoted to full Colonel and named commandant of the military hospital. Poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892), was sending dispatches from Washington to the Brooklyn Eagle at the time, and mentioned Fowler in the descriptions of his encounters with wounded Brooklyn men. Fowler returned to the field in January 1863, and the Union forces were in disarray. In early July 1863, the Red-Legged Devils were involved in the horrific Battle of Gettysburg. Though suffering great losses, their participation with the First Army Corps helped the Union troops stand their ground against overwhelming odds on the first day of battle. Fowler’s regiment went on to distinguish itself at the Battle of Mine Run (November 1863), the Wilderness campaign, and at Spotsylvania (May 1864). A monument to the 14th Regiment was erected at Culp’s Hill at Gettysburg, and the inscription recounts 22 military engagements. When the regiment was mustered out of active duty, Fowler was brevetted a Brigadier General on June 6, 1864. Returning to Brooklyn, Fowler resided first at 208 and then 178 Fort Greene Place (later razed for the Atlantic Terminal). Retaining an affiliation with the 14th Regiment for two more years, he worked as an officer of the Long Island Savings Bank, treasurer of Atlantic & Pacific Company, and auditor of Commercial Cable Company. Fowler also served as chief clerk of the Brooklyn Board of Audit, and was a member of the Kings County 11th Ward Board of Supervisors. Fowler died at his 47 Brevoort Place home on January 16, 1896. His body lay in state at Brooklyn Borough Hall, and he was buried in full regalia at Greenwood Cemetery. On May 18, 1902, the City of Brooklyn dedicated the sculpture of Fowler in Fort Greene Park. Positioned on a cylindrical granite pedestal, the statue depicts the general in military garb, cap in his left hand and sword in his right. Sculptor Henry Baerer was born in Kirscheim, Germany, and came to the United States in 1854. He was especially well-known as a portrait sculptor, and contributed six sculptures to the parks of New York City, including statues of composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Prospect and Central Parks, General Gouveneur Kemble Warren in Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, and a bust of industrialist Conrad Poppenhusen in College Point, Queens. Over time, this monument suffered environmental corrosion and vandalism, and by the 1960s was stored for protection. In 1976, it was reinstalled at its present location at Fowler Gore (formerly Lafayette Square). Plans are underway to conserve the sculpture, and replicate missing decorative and dedicatory bronze elements through a City-funded capital project. The Fort Greene Association has raised additional funds for ongoing care of the statue. As an unidentified author commented in the Brooklyn Eagle in 1902, “Dear old ‘Ned,’ when in the flesh, would have been embarrassed could prophetic eyes have realized the imperishable bronze, but his heart would have been gladdened by a practical recognition of his services also.” Fort Greene Historic District (Boundary Increase) National Register #84002451 (1984)


NYC - Brooklyn: Fort Greene Park - Prison Ship Martyrs Monument
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The Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, sometimes referred to as the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, was erected in Fort Greene Park in 1908. Designed by Stanford White, the monument consists of a 100-foot-wide-granite staircase and a 149-foot high central Doric column. The monument, actually the third on the site, marks the site of the crypt for more than 11,500 men, women and children, known as the prison ship martyrs. During the American Revolutionary War, the British imprisoned scores of soldiers, sailors, and private citizens--many simply because they would not swear allegiance to the Crown of England. When they ran out of jail space, they began using decommissioned ships anchored in Wallabout Bay as floating prisons. Life was unbearable on the prison ships. Disease was rampant, food and water were scarce or nonexistent, and the living conditions were overcrowded and wretched. Their bodies were thrown overboard or buried in shallow graves in the sandy marshes along the shore. In 1808 the remains of the prison ship martyrs were buried in a tomb on Jackson Street (now Hudson Avenue), near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In 1776, the construction of Fort Putnam on the high ground that now makes up Fort Greene Park was supervised by American Major General Nathanael Greene. During the Battle of Long Island, the Continental Army surrendered the fort and retreated to Manhattan. The fort was renamed for General Greene and rebuilt for the War of 1812. In 1845, the City of Brooklyn designated the site as a public park behind the support of Walt Whitman, then editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In 1867, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were engaged to redesign the park, and incorporate a new crypt for the remains of the prison ship martyrs. The remains were moved to the park in 1873 into the newly created 25 by 11 foot brick vault. Twenty-two boxes, containing a mere fraction of total volume of remains, were interred. Towards the end of the 19th century, a diverse group of interests including the federal government, municipal and state governments, private societies, and donors, began a campaign for a permanent monument to the prison ship martyrs. In 1905 the renowned architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White was hired to design a new entrance to the crypt and a wide granite stairway leading to a plaza on top of the hill. From its center rose a freestanding Doric column crowned by a bronze lantern. President-elect William Howard Taft attended the monument’s dedication in 1908. Sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman (1870–1952) created the monument’s bronze pieces -- the large urn or decorative lantern (never functioning) as well as four eagles that were once mounted to the corner granite posts. The eagles were removed to storage after being repeatedly vandalized; two of them are on public display at the Arsenal, the Parks administrative headquarters on Fifth Avenue at 64th Street in Manhattan. A tablet over the entrance to tomb, also in storage now, was donated by the Tammany Society, and was originally the cornerstone of the Navy Yard vault. An elevator and stairs for the interior were installed in 1937; both were removed in 1948 after the monument was renovated by Parks. In 1970 the elevator pit was filled in. Presently plans are being considered for the renovation of the monument, landscaping of the apex of the park and the re-installation of the conserved eagles and plaque. The Fort Green Historic District was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1978. Fort Greene Historic District National Register #83001691


NYC - Brooklyn - Fort Greene: 291 Cumberland Street
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291 Cumberland Street was built in the 1850 in typical Italianate frame structure. In 1892, the property was purchased by James White who commissioned the architectural firm of Parfitt Bros. to design a new facade. Parfitt Bros. was composed of three brothers who emigrated to Brooklyn from England--the most significant being Albert Parfitt. The firm designed neo-Grec, Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival style row houses and apartment buildings throughout Brooklyn as well as Grace United Methodist Church in Park Slope, a number of Brooklyn firehouses and the Knickerbocker Field Club. The new pale yellow pressed brick facade is an elegant essay in transitional Romanesque Revival/neo-Renaissance style. The narrow entrance is is reached by a box stoop with a balustrade of carved dwarf columns. The form and detailing are stylistic holdovers from the Romanesque Revival style of the Parfitt Bros. The double doors and transom light are topped by a limestone plaque ornamented with Romanesque foliate forms and neo-Renaissance putti heads, garland and lion's head. The lion's head panel supports the sill of a small second floor window with a splayed lintel of narrow vertical voussoirs and a carved keystone. To the right of the doorway is a two-story, three-sided stone bay. The windows of the first floor have stained-glass transoms and all of the windows of the upper two levels are flanked by paneled Corinthian pilasters. Spandrel panels, each surrounded by an egg-and-dart molding and ornamented with a roundel that incorporates a cartouche, separate the first and second floors. The central panel is further enhanced by fleur-de -lis'. The bay is crowned by a roof of Spanish tiles. The third level is pierced by a long, four-window wide bay. Each window is flanked is flanked by twisted Corinthian columns that rest on a continuous sill and support a single lime-stone lintel. A beautiful, bracketed galvanized-iron cornice with wreaths between the brackets and lion's heads along the top molding, crowns this handsome building. The Fort Green Historic District was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1978. Fort Greene Historic District National Register #83001691


Obscured by Eggplants
Made by Linus Gelber
If it looks to you like Miss Flipper Baby (Stephanie Dodd) is wearing diving accessories and a triumphal wreath of eggplants, the trouble is not in your set. Flipper Baby and Hair Messerschmidt (David Barber), her stern Teutonic partner, are in the midst of a gritty electronic industrial rant about - or perhaps a celebration of, it's hard to tell - the ingredients of the dishes we're about to eat in the next few courses at Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant. Eggplant, Messerschmidt snarls into his microphone, over an attenuated, grating beat. Aubergine! Flipper Baby gyrates as wildly as her gear will allow. Just a few steps in, though, the Management cuts it short in favor of a less bleak approach to the material. We talked about this, warns manager Sue James, as the two awkwardly surrender the spotlight. Hair M. and Flipper are new characters in the show. Miss Flipper Baby, who cheerily garbles her lines through her snorkel for the bulk of the evening, will do an aerial silks number later, although I don't get any solid shots from that (Stephanie has been with the restaurant for a stretch, previously playing a multi-instrumentalist security attache). Hair Messerschmidt is newly-inducted - David Barber has been the show's designer (Director of Mise-en-Scene, is how he puts it), and an opportune vacancy brings him to the stage. The stark light on the pair drowns out their wonderful carnival of smooth and glossy textures, and the circus of grays and blacks - I wish I could shoot these two with some good soft side lighting. The lunacy of their moment and the grave aplomb of the execution make a gorgeous combination.


NYC - Brooklyn - Fort Greene: 293-299 Cumberland Street
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Two pairs of unusual, vernacular, late Greek Revival frame houses, 293 and 295 Cumberland Street and 297 and 299 Cumberland Street, wee built for Samuel I. Underhill around 1853. Although the houses have been altered, all but No. 299 retain much of their original appearance. Nos. 293-295 were originally two-and-one-half stories above tall brick basements. The most striking feature of the houses is their shared, one-stpory high porch with balustrades, stylized Corinthian columns that support a dentilled cornice with modest jigsaw-cut brackets. Originally high stoops led to the porches that shade the entrances with typical Greek Revival crossetted engramements, double doors, transom lights and dentilled cornices. The narrow four-over-six floor length windows of the fist floor have enframements similar to the entrance. On the second floor, the two-over-two windows also have crossetted enframements and projecting lintels. Small, two-over-two windows with simple enframements mark the third floor. Immediately above these windows is a wooden bracketed cornice. Nos. 297 and 299 were original similar to Nos. 293 and 295, although only two stories in height. The mansard roofs were added about twenty years after the houses were completed. All four houses have been resided and No. 295 has had its attic story rraised, its cornice raised and its upper story window enframements replaced. No. 299 has had ts porch and door and window enframements removed. The Fort Green Historic District was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1978. Fort Greene Historic District National Register #83001691


Silver by Barlight
Made by Linus Gelber
I'm a fan of Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant, a great evening of theater that involves dinner but is not what you'd properly call Dinner Theater, what with all the baggage that Dinner Theater carries. Conni's is smart, funny, supple stuff for the New Yorker set, full of outrageous stories, silly costumes, solid thought, and affectionate poking at the big name avant garde: the show in its most recent form manages to call out Robert Wilson for Einstein on the Jersey Shore and to describe a performance piece called Ich habe ein Splinter und ich want it Aus, as well as claiming the creation of the sitcom Knight Court, which was rather more interesting before the networks got involved, removed the K, and reset the series in a small-claims courtroom. Also there's a plot, of sorts, pursued by a set of delightful bizarre characters who make dinner, serve dinner, discuss dinner, worship dinner, and make sure that everyone has plenty to drink. Silver3, French raver and visiting moonbeam, tends bar upstairs at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene during the appetizers (she's a full part of the action when the show marches downstairs into the main space, once we've appetized). We graze at the bar, meet the folks who will be our table-mates, and pick name tags with our identities for the evening. Tonight I am Dominique Strauss-Wrath-of-Khan .


Stranger #16/100 - Ready for an Adventure
Made by WM Rine
I don't usually shoot more than one stranger in a single situation, but these two (#s 15 and 16) were so different that I couldn't resist. Leah is a server were I was having dinner with a friend on Monday evening. I really wanted to photograph her because I loved how she had her hair up. I stopped her as she passed our table and asked if I could photograph her and she very willingly sat down and starting chatting. Leah is originally from Stevens Point, WI, which is near my current part of the world, but she seems glad to have left it in her rearview mirror. She's been in New York for a few years, in and out of different college programs, not quite finding her place. She was very excited that she had just finished a program to teach English abroad, and was getting ready to head out for a stint in Latin America. Her enthusiasm was very catching. This was a tricky environment to take a shot. The lighting in the restaurant was miserably dark and what little there was was very orange. This was taken at 1/50 at f/2.8 with the ISO set to 10,000. Lots of noise and blur because of her animation, but this one captured her spirit as it struck me. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at www.100Strangers.com.


Yula in the Moment
Made by Linus Gelber
The Gemini & Scorpio Lost Circus party is a maelstrom of aerial performance, music, costuming, indulgence, and what we once called High Energy Metaphysics. All of that and more is at the heart of Yula and the Extended Family, a musical collective of performers who swagger like punks and tribe like gypsies. Yula, who will be familiar to some from her prior projects World Inferno, Star Fucking Hipsters, and NaNuchKa, is a blaze of energy, and the band erupts sometime after midnight and holds sway into the wee hours. When I first spot her, dressed in simple black and dancing in the audience while friends play on stage, I don't know she's a performer, but my eye is drawn. Later, when she turns up with a drum in hand to instigate a bit of cacophony, and then ultimately appears as a bandleader, I'm not in the least surprised.


Jahmal - Clinton Hill
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More: gudphoto.com/bikenyc/2010/11/17/bikenyc-portrait-jahmal/ Asking someone on the street for a portrait is kind of hard by itself. There's getting over the inhibition to ask, then there's facing rejection when they say no. Well, it's even harder when you're looking for a cyclist subject - they tend to be moving. Like moving quickly, on their way someplace. I was pondering this dilemma as I walked in Ft Greene/Clinton Hill with my camera, hoping to find a BikeNYC subject when I spotted Jahmal. As luck would have it, he had stopped to adjust his music as I was walking by. I approached and made my quick pitch and he said yes immediately. Oh, and here's a bonus: Jahmal is one half of the Carps.


High Life
Made by Linus Gelber
I won't tell you my fingers are on the throbbing pulse of fringe life (because they're not), but as far as excellent trends go, let me just say this: a couple of years ago I knew one confident aerialist and a few people who could probably swing a few airborne stunts. These days I meet aerialists with delight - another one! - rather than being surprised to find out that's what they do. Really? You mean ... like a pilot? And at Gemini & Scorpio's Lost Circus party I meet a stunning new handful of skywalkers, enough that I'm not entirely sure who is doing the upside-down skyward split in this image. But I'll find out, and I'll post when I know. Edit: Mandy Hackman. That's who it is. Hello, Mandy!


Maxed Up
Made by Linus Gelber
At the Lost Circus fundraiser party thrown by Gemini & Scorpio - we're collecting money for construction of the Temple of Transition at Burning Man this year - there are a passel of aerialists, most of whom I haven't seen before. I am smitten by each and every one of them. In addition to her obvious acrobatic skills, Maxine Nienow is an artist and a photographer, and I first run into her this evening stalking about confidently on high stilts. Here she holds herself upside-down on silks, suspended between spotlight colors, and the band plays behind her.


That Catwoman Stance
Made by Dan Love
ISO 160 | 135mm | f2 | 1/640 Went to the Fort Greene Festival this afternoon to enjoy the weather and check out Mos Def. He put on a great show despite the fact that his warm up act and brother Medina Green basically got booed off stage due to his inability to 'keep it clean'. Rosie Perez was not impressed. I've got such a love hate relationship with Brooklyn. It was kind of a weird vibe there this afternoon, I would have expected more obvious hometown support for one of the borough's brightest; as it was people seemed initially indifferent. Incredible food though and Fort Greene Park is beautiful. Nice way to spend a summer's afternoon. Plenty more in the comments.


#12 - The Hanged Woman
Made by Linus Gelber
At the Gemini & Scorpio Lost Circus party, aerialist and dancer Lisa Natoli does two dazzling rope routines. I've seen silks and I've seen trapeze and I've seen suspended hoops, but this is the first time I can recall seeing a full routine with just a vertical rope. We had one of these in high school gym class, and as I recall my main trick was not falling off of it. Lisa hangs, twists, makes intricate knots, and perches in a horizontal extension that makes me wonder if she can lift trucks. Note to self: arm-wrestle with caution.


Jade Before Midnight
Made by Linus Gelber
This year's Gemini and Scorpio Bootleggers' Ball party is a sold-out affair. I'm one of the roving photographers, which means for the most part looking in from the outside as a spectator. Put another way, it means letting the crowd perform for the camera. I meet Jade a few days before the party, when she's wondering on-line if there are photos from last year's Ball. I wonder in turn if I took pictures of her back then, but it turns out this is her first time attending. I'll be the guy with the camera, I tell her, and I'm pretty easy to spot.


Air Dancing
Made by Linus Gelber
I last saw Dana Abrassart do her thing above an audience this past New Year's Eve, at a previous Gemini & Scorpio theme party. Tonight, at the Lost Circus event, she treats us to stilts as well as silks, mingling with the crowd. When Dana finally clambers up toward the ceiling, she performs above a piano; below, Shayfer James sings Insincerely Yours, accompanied by Sarah Zar on the saw. As the number ends, she eases down onto the piano top, and gazes into the singer's eyes. It's a simple moment of lovely drama.


Zahra Welcomes 2011
Made by Linus Gelber
I've got a request for some older images for publicity purposes, which is a nice excuse to revisit this past winter and the Gemini and Scorpio Bootleggers' Ball New Year's Eve party in Fort Greene. Shortly after the calendar swings over to open its new leaves, dancer Zahra Hashemian rings in the new year in rare style. If I were 2011, I'd be thinking that this was a good way to kick things off.


Electric Age
Made by Linus Gelber
This year's Gemini and Scorpio Bootleggers' Ball party is a sold-out affair. I'm one of the roving photographers, which means for the most part looking in from the outside as a spectator. Put another way, it means letting the crowd perform for the camera. The dapper fellow, with his double waxed moustaches and his garb of adventurers' Victoriana, is the very picture of a cutting-edge steampunk gentleman. The light bulb, of course, is fully functional.


Silky
Made by Linus Gelber
I've got a request for some older images for publicity purposes, which is a nice excuse to revisit this past winter and the Gemini and Scorpio Bootleggers' Ball New Year's Eve party in Fort Greene. As is almost always the case, I shot a lot of pictures and posted a small handful, which means there's still plenty of substance in the files. Here, aerialist Dana Abrassart strikes a fetching pose high above the happy crowd.


Repeat Customer
Made by Linus Gelber
This year's Gemini and Scorpio Bootleggers' Ball party is a sold-out affair. I'm one of the roving photographers, which means for the most part looking in from the outside as a spectator. Put another way, it means letting the crowd perform for the camera. I remember this face-decorated Bootlegger from last year's party: there aren't many people I recognize from the first Bootleggers' Ball, but some people linger in memory.


dab
Made by sgoralnick
since rob and kathy weren't doing the whole not seeing eachother before we walk down the aisle thing, we arranged to at least have them meet up for the first time that day at a certain spot. despite being self described goofball nerds, they both burst into tears at the site of each other all dressed up to be married. for the record, he is drying her tears with a vintage handkercheif that he hand-embroidered with a special message as a wedding gift to her. awww!