Reported Sale of 203 Ninth Street Alarms Preservationists

According to an e-mail blast from the Society of Old Brooklynites, the news, according to the former owner, that a developer has bought 203 Ninth Street, an abandoned industrial building next to a site being explored as a historic monument and public park, has set off alarms within the local preservation community.

The Gowanus neighborhood is under intense pressure from builders and

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Planning Begins for Marylander Memorial Park

During the Battle of Brooklyn in August, 1776, two hundred and fifty-six Maryland infantrymen fell heroically near the Cornelius Van Brunt homestead in today's Gowanus/Park Slope fighting an audacious rear-guard action against the British Army.

Not until 119 years later, in August, 1895, was a monument erected in Prospect Park to honor them. But if the actual gravesite of these brave soldiers,

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