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February 21,1974 PHOENIX Page 13Beep Wants More HistoryOn Culture Bus RouteThe Peter Classen-Wyckoff House, located on Clarendon Rd. and Ralph Ave. is believed to be theoldest building in New York State, and Brooklyn Borough President wants it and other Brooklynlandmarks added to the MTA%u2019s popular Culture Bus route that now travels on weekendsBorough President Sebastian Leone has proposed that the M etropolitan T ransportation Authority (MTA) add a number of new Brooklyn locations to its popular Culture Bus route that links Brooklyn and Manhattan on weekends. The sites he proposes, include the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Fort Greene Park.Leone%u2019s proposals include the Peter Claessen Wyckoff House at Clarendon Rd. and Ralph Ave., which was built prior to 1641, and is believed to be the oldest building in New York State.In a letter to Dr. William Ronan, chairman of MTA, Leone said: %u201cI would like to recommend that you consider extending the Brooklyn tour to include several other points of interest in the Borough, dating back to the Dutch Colonial period, which 1 am confident would prove of tremendous interest to tourists, students, historians and many Brooklyn residents who may be totally unaware of the heritage which surrounds them.%u201dThe sites which Leone proposes were on a list prepared by Dr. Joseph Palisi of St. Francis College, who is Borough Historian.The Culture Bus route, which was inaugurated in late 1973, runs on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, and links more than a dozen locations in Brooklyn with a route in Manhattan via the Manhattan Bridge. Locally, the bus may be boarded on Court St. atRemsen, Atlantic Ave. at Court St., the junction of Atlantic, Fourth and Flatbush Aves., and at Grand Army Plaza. The buses run every 15 minutes from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.These are some of the locations Leone wants linked by the expanded bus route:Lady Deborah Moody%u2019s HomeHome of the noble English woman who founded the first English speaking community in Brooklyn%u2014 Gravesend%u2014and who authored the first town plan in the U.S. She moreover was the first woman ever to cast a vote in what is now' the U.S. The home is located on Neck Rd. between Van Slicklen St. and McDonald Ave. It is opposite to the historic Gravescend Cemetery, the oldest and smallest in the City of New York. Lady Moody%u2019s home dates from about 1643.Weeksville%u2014a series of houses located between 1698-1708 Bergen St. representing the first majorfree black settlement in the area now called Bedford Stuyvesant. Built by an unknown architect in the 1830%u2019s the community endured as a predominantly black one after the Civil War.The Commandant%u2019s House%u2014 Hudson Ave. and Evans St., former New York Naval Shipyard. Completed in 1806, this two story frame houses with attic wasdesigned to serve the chief officer of this important installation. The building represents the Federal style of architecture at its highest point of development and the carving on its front entrance with its leaded fanlight is one of less than half a dozen finest Federal period doorways in the nation.Ft. Hamilton Military Complex-covering 177 acres At the time of the American Revolution, the site of Ft. Hamilton was occupied by homesteads of Denyse Denvse, John Bennett and Simon Cortelyou. Nearby was Denyse s Ferry where the British landed on August 22, 1776 to begin the Battle of Brooklyn. The cornerstone of the present Fort Hamilton was laid in 1825 and completed in 1831. The old fort building itself is now the officers club and in the opinion of the Boro Historian is the most beautiful period structure in Brooklyn and shamefully unknow n by the overwhelming majority of our citizenry.Greenwood Cemetery%u2014Partially site of the Battle of Brooklyn and is the highest promontory in the Borough. Many famous Americans, including Horace Greely, Samuel Morse and De Witt Clinton are buried there. The cemetery represents a monument of the Gothic Revival period and it was one of the first two cemeteries in the U.S. to adopt the concept of a last resting place in a rural -voting instead of a chut ...Fort Greene %u2019 thePrison sir11 V. %u25a0 %u25a0 ' nv e. t.commen. .j iii.,g the . warns ot one of the worst atrocities of the American Revolution, in which thousands of American prisoners died on British prison vessels anchored in Wallabout Bay.Tin; B k o o k i . y n Daily F aiii.i; A lmanac. toT H E BR O O KLYN EAGLE ALM ANAC.VOLUME XXIII. JANUARY, 1908. No. 1 or Eaoi.i: I.ii.i;ai;aTHE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE.a PROSPEROUS year with in-rcaint? business possibilities ami . is electric, and is supplied bv the Edison Electric Illuminating Compauy. of Brooklyn, Prior to the opening of the enlarged Eagle Building in |!KM. the machiiiei v had been operated by steam. Tlmn it was decided that lor both the old and new plant elec trie |mwer would be far more convenient and effective and the change was drleryy 'upon. The original plans contemplated the generation of the neres-,,:,; , 111 %u25a0engines and dvnnmoson the premises, hut a further and ........' m 'ystigalion priorconvinced tl%u201e, Km-lc to secure driving energy I rum Edison mains would |%u201e. a more a d v i i n ' - %u00ab \%u25a0UeordiU'-lvtlwventered into a five years contract \exclu-irelighting and power service, changed tlmir elevators over lm m hydraulic to eiectric and ci|iii|i|%u00bb'd all their tv|ie-setting. printing, stereotyping and book lauding machinery with direct connected electric motors, eliminating steam absolutely, except ; duriiu- the winter month-, when it i- used at low pressure for heating only.The controlling reason that governed tlm Eagle in tlm making of tins contract I was economy, the management having liecome thoroughly convinced th a t they could buv .heir current supple from the Edison t.'%u00bbiii|%u00abinv %u2022 * - %u2014: %u2014i ---- o nr%u00ab%u201el, - K A llty m iiu u n o . *%u00bb w . . w .w . ..and day after day I pass, but never a clean shiny face.A FriendDear Friend:Look at our pages, not our windows to see what we have to say.Editor