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Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Museum was founded in 1898 as a division of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and was planned to be the largest art museum in the world.

The museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. The museum's Beaux-Arts building was designed by McKim, Mead & White. wikipedia




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View from Gowanus Heights, Brooklyn
American Scenery,
by N.P. Willis, Illustrated by William Henry Bartlett, 1840


Gowanus (/ ɡəˈwɑːnəs/ gə-WAH-nəs) is a neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the area once known as South Brooklyn.