Burton Turkus was the Assistant to the District Attorney who brought down nine suspects in the Murder Inc. trials, managing to convict them all of first-degree murder. They would all be sentenced to death.
During the 1951 NYC college basketball season, top players were implicated in a point-shaving scandal that resulted in a 6 year shut down of the L.I.U. athletic program and the imprisonment of several players.
On July 13, 1977 at 9:34 pm, the lights went out in New York. This wasn’t the first blackout in New York City-the “Where were you when the lights went out?” blackout of 1965 was a fairly recent memory-and it wouldn’t be the last, but it did leave an indelible mark.
Through his camera lens, Otto C. Dreschmeyer (1896-1983) documented the iconic neighborhood of Coney Island and other Brooklyn scenes during the late 1960s.
As one of the interns taking part in Project CHART, I have been working with the Museum’s collection of lantern slides. Many of these were taken by members of the Department of Photography of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the museum’s predecessor, and mostly between 1880 and 1900.
Many visitors may recall seeing the Nicholas and Jan Martense Schenck homes on display, as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s period room collection. These two houses, along with additional primary sources, provide a fascinating window into the life of the Schenck family and other early Brooklyn settlers.
