Greetings, Brooklyn. Today is the 239th day of the year.
ON THIS DAY IN 1935, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle published an article titled “10,000 Swarm in Ten Blocks on WPA Call.”
The article focused on the city switching those on home relief to Work Progress Administration (WPA) jobs.
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“Placing men in jobs at the rate of seven to a minute, New York City relief heads speeded up as they swung into the second day of the process,” the Eagle reported. “…It was said to be the greatest concentration of the unemployed in the city’s history.”
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NOTABLE PEOPLE born on this day include “Old School” actor Patrick J. Adams, who was born in 1981; “Scrubs” actress Sarah Chalke, who was born in 1976; musician Daryl Dragon, who was born in 1942; football player Darren McFadden, who was born in 1987; tennis player Carlos Moya, who was born in 1976; Emmy Award-winning actor Aaron Paul, who was born in 1979; actor and writer Paul Reubens, who was born in 1952; singer Tommy Sands, who was born in 1937; baseball player Jim Thome, who was born in 1970; actress Tuesday Weld, who was born in New York City in 1943; and “Grey’s Anatomy” actress Chandra Wilson, who was born in 1969.
MOTHER TERESA was born on this day in 1910. An Albanian Roman Catholic nun, Mother Teresa founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, which cares for the destitute people of Calcutta, India and other places. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in September of 1997.
“DIE HARD” will be shown tonight at 6 p.m. at Brooklyn Bridge Park as part of the Syfy Movies With A View series. The event will take place at the Harbor View Lawn and will also include a DJ and a short film before the showing. For more information, visit brooklynbridgepark.org/events.
Special thanks to “Chase’s Calendar of Events” and Brooklyn Public Library.
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New York City’s most populous borough, Brooklyn, is home to nearly 2.6 million residents. If Brooklyn were an independent city it would be the fourth largest city in the United States. While Brooklyn has become the epitome of ‘cool and hip’ in recent years, for those that were born here, raised families here and improved communities over the years, Brooklyn has never been ‘uncool’.