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The Brooklyn Baron

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The Brooklyn Baron was a weekly newspaper focused on "news in around the neighborhoods of Bergen Beach and Coney Island."[1]

They had writers[2][3] and a managing editor.[4]

Overview

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In mid 1997 they ran a full page profile of a Holocaust survivor who was shot, helped by a non-Jewish farmer, and after the war went back to where her family home had stood. She described it as "burnt to the ground." In Brooklyn she married and built a family, and years later was told that for some technical reason reparations were denied.[5]

Their "Hush Hush" item about how in 1943 there were 4 things a sailor could not say in a letter home and 12 "a sailor can say" (part of #1 is "You can say you were born, if you don't say where") was reprinted.[6]

The Brooklyn Public Library's microfilm collection, which only has issues from 1997,[1] described it as having "a law section ... and includes editorials by prominent New York politicians."[1]

The Brooklyn Baron also carried cartoons,[7] and works by local writers.[8][9]

History

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The paper's name was trademarked late 1996 by B&B Publishing.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Local Newspapers on Microfilm Collection". Brooklyn Public Library.
  2. ^ "Resume".
  3. ^ Grave's End: A True Ghost Story. .. has also written for The Brooklyn Baron and
  4. ^ "Patch User Profile for Holly Garguilo". formerly served as managing editor of the Brooklyn Baron newspaper
  5. ^ Week of May 28 - June 3, 1997: "Holocaust Survivor Seeks Restitution From German Government". The Brooklyn Baron.
  6. ^ "SaltShaker Tidbits "Four"".
  7. ^ "Oliver Gaspirtz".
  8. ^ Elaine Mercado (2001). Grave's End: A True Ghost Story. ISBN 9780738700038. Mercado, a locally published writer, has also written for The Brooklyn Baron and The Nursing Spectrum.
  9. ^ Alice O'Neil (May 28, 1997). "Brooklyn and the Little Big Horn". The Brooklyn Baron. p. 6.
  10. ^ "October 18, 1996 Trademarks". The Brooklyn Baron