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July 3, 2008
The Boerum Hill House Tour on Video
While this video doesn't actually show last month's Boerum Hill House Tour, it highlights 10 of the event's featured locations. Fun facts abound, like: "It is thought that modern Hoyt Street followed an old Native American trail to the original Gowanus Creek, where large oysters could be found at certain times of year. They were a staple of the local diet" and "Rumors abound that monkeys were kept in cages atop the facility [at 423-443 Atlantic] for testing the effectiveness of Ex-Lax." The Boerum Hill Association put the footage together (part 2 here and part 3 here), and the audio is from a longer podcast they produced to accompany people on the tour.
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It seems like the only house tour anyone cares about is the Victorian Flatbush tour. Why is that?
Posted by: guest at July 6, 2008 3:43 PM
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