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Mayor Trying to Make Brooklyn Civil War Arch Traffic Free
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Monday that he is planning to change the structure of the streets around the famous Civil War Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Arch…
Video Politics & Memory in Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York
Akela Reason from the University of Georgia speaks about the building of Civil War monuments in New York City and Brooklyn. After Gettysburg, New York…
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn Has $8.9 Million in Preservation Work Completed
One of the most visited Civil War sites in the country is Grand Army Plaza outside of Prospect Park in Brooklyn. This site is dominated…
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn Placed Behind a Scaffold
I visited one of America’s major Civil War sites. Grand Army Plaza’s triumphal arch was almost completely covered with plastic coverings and a wooden fence…
Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn
I visited the second largest Civil War monument in New York. Grand Army Plaza is a massive memorial series covering 11 acres at the…