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For Something SpecialThis Year:G i v e B r o o k l y nBY BETSY KISSAMGuccis come and Puccis go. So do Sassoons. Kleins. Vanderbilts. Vittons, even Perriers, Haagen Dazs, and Danons. But if you want a name that has a 300-plus tradition behind it. 80 square miles to back it up. and a future that%u2019s Golden, then give BROOKLYN on your Christmas gifts this year.You can wear Brooklyn; you can decorate your home or office with it; you can play with it; you can grow it; you can listen to it; you can look at it; you can find your way with it; you can read it; you can write on it; and vou can even eat it!BROOKLYN IN T-SHIRTSKeep someone warm with Brooklyn. T-shirts come bedecked with just about any slogan. You can find ones that simply say %u201c Brooklyn,%u201d or ones that promote various neighborhoods, such as the Cobble Hill T-shirts on sale at the Cobble HIUCleaners, 264 Clinton St., for $5. The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens at the Garden Shop, 1000 Washington Ave., sells two garden motif T-shirts for $5.99 each; TheSeated Indian at 128 Pierrepont St. carries shirts with %u201c Breukelen, Brookland, Brooklyn,%u201d or ones with a map of Brooklyn.%u201c Trees and other nice things grow in Brooklyn%u201d says a T-shirt at The FoodBasket, 398 Atlantic Ave. For Brooklyn feminists the National Organization ofWomen has ones with the slogan %u201c NOW grows in Brooklyn%u201d for $5, or $4 for children's sizes: call 763-5978.BROOKLYN IN A BUTTONAnd to decorate those T-shirts, endless buttons and pins proclaim Brooklyn or some aspect of its fife. Brooklyn Chamberof Commerce pins available for 25 cents from 26 Court St.. 11th floor, %u201c Brooklyn%u201d inside a red apple. Buttons (50 cents) from NOW say %u201c Brooklyn NOW,\Place Is Every Place,%u201d and more Brooklyn and non-Brooklyn slogans. And if you have friends who spent the first part of their lives in Brooklyn, you might be lucky enough to find a small enamel pin ($3.50 to $10) from the 1920%u2019s and 30%u2019s commemorating their old alma mater. Pins from Pratt Institute, Polytechnic, Eramus and Hamilton High Schools, and more are on hand at Welcome to New York, 26 Carmine St., (near Sixth Ave. and Bleecker St.) in Manhattan.Less exciting but eminently more practical are the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens%u2019 denim apron full of pockets, $3.75, and the longer and wider green gardening apron for $5.75. The Botanic Gardens also sells mugs with its name emblazoned on them. Other Brooklyn mugs can be found at The Atlantic Ave- Gift Shop, 326 Atlantic Ave.IN TOTEBAGS AND NOTECARDSLet Brooklyn carry the load. Brooklyn totebags, chocolate brown with a beige tree design, at The Melting Pot, 324 Atlantic Ave., sell for $10. Notecards with the same motif are 10 for $2.50. The BrooklynMuseum Gallery Shop on Eastern Parkway sells notecards and postcards (25 cents) of the art on permanent exhibition at the museum.Brooklyn Yesterday notecards including drawings of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the 1860%u2019s, the Fulton Ferry in the< o o a i j it n __________j %u201e t o n n tinJ .%u25a0>, a i lU llIU 1 1UUIVI1UUS, HM JLKJ I JU, JV II ASJfor $2.50 at the Woman%u2019s Exchange of Brooklyn, 76 Montague St.Friends of Prospect Park puts out notecards, 10 for $1 of Lull water Bridge in Prospect Park, and others with Jacques Hnizdovsky%u2019s Camperdown Elm in red onan ocre background, 14 for $5. These can be found at the Botanic Gardens Shop and the Community Bookstore, 143 Seventh Ave. in Park Slope. Prisma Graphics (768- 8295) has its own Brooklyn notecards with scenes including Grand Army Plaza and the Promenade. Also notepaper, by Prisma Graphics, brown with a black drawing of the Promenade at the top, comes with its own pen and sells for $2.50 at The Seated Indian Shop and other neighborhood locations.BROOKLYN IN PRINTBrooklyn, past and present, can be found in print. %u201c Old Brooklyn in Early Photographs 1865-1929%u201d (a $6 large format paperback) is a compilation of 157 prints from the Collection of the Long Island Historical Society. Published by Dover, the book is available at Community Bookstores in Park Slope and at 162Montague St. Brooklyn Rediscovery, 57Willoughby Ave., publishes numerous works on the subject of Brooklyn including Brooklyn history covered in %u201c The Shaping of a City%u201d ($3 in paperback) and %u201c Brooklyn on Film%u201d ($1), a sourcebook on films about or made in Brooklyn, or with Brooklyn actors. Friends of Prospect Park puts out the \Lancaster, a former curator of the park, $3.75 in paperback. And the Brooklyn Museum has its own 564-page handbook ($595) with 267 illustrations touching on all permanent museum exhibitions.Brooklyn of the 1800%u2019s comes to life in three books reprinted by The BoroBookstore, 146 Lawrence St. Published originally in 1883, %u201c An Historical and Descriptive Review of the City of Brooklyn%u201d sells in hardcover for $12.50, and brings to life the year the Brooklyn Bridge was built. Boro%u2019s reprinting of %u201c Notes, Geographical and Historical, Relating to the Town of Brooklyn%u201d (1824), by Gabriel Furman of Furman St. fame, is thought to be the first history of the town of Brooklyn. %u201c The Brooklyn Bridge%u201d ($3.50), two articles reprinted from 1881 and 1883 newspapers, gives detailed information on the bridge and its construction. Paper bookmarks at The Seated Indian Shop (a set of 8 for 75 cents) provide further details on Brooklyn, a description of four historical Brooklyn Heights homes. And don%u2019t overlook a membership gift in the Long Island Historical Society, $15, that will provide a friend with easy access to a dose of Brooklyn in print and photographs.REAL ESTATE AND COMMERCEIf you%u2019re looking for a way to demonstrate your business savvy, give your boss the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce%u2019s 266- page %u201c Directory of Commerce and Industry\paperback), cross-indexed with listings of all Brooklyn businesses, number of employees, etc. For another $1 you can decorate the package and later your boss%u2019 desk with a miniature Brooklyn flag also available at the Chamber. The %u201c 1980 Year Book and Diary%u201d of the Brooklyn Board of Realtors ($10.50) available at 186 Joralemon St., a desk-top must for any busy friend, will supply information on federal, state, and city laws, real estate tax information, and zoning information.1- %u00a3*%u2022: 4 ^Brooklyn Botanic Gardens publishes its gardening and horticultural booklets for $1.95 each; or a complete set of 61 booklets, new and revised, is now priced at $100. postpaid; cal! 622-4433, ext. 39. Also at the Garden is the newly-published %u201c TheRose Book%u201d by Peter Malin, chief rosarian.IN A MAGNOLIA ELIZABETHThis year%u2019s ultimate gardening gift is the new variety of yellow magnolia tree, named Elizabeth, developed thru Brooklyn Botanic Garden auspices. It will be available to members on a first come first serve basis in March, 1980 for $150, $125 of which is tax deductible. Obviously this magnolia tree will not be ready for Christmas, but if you give a membership to the Garden ($15 for an individual), that%u2019s at least the first step toward planting the tree.If your friends don%u2019t have a Brooklyn garden in which to plant a Dyellow magnolia, the Botanic Gardens offers a lovely poster ($3.50) to bring the garden indoors. Mizue Sawano%u2019s water lilies of the Garden celebrating an exhibition at the Viridian Gallery. Other Botanic posters sell for $1, or $2 when laminated. %u201cThe%u2014 T%u201e %u00a3 ----r ________ ___t i _ ___ w i w v m j i i if iu g iw u 111 AO %u00bbW1 1IV%u00bb U 1U*production of Edward Hick%u2019s %u201c The Peaceable Kingdom,%u201d sells for $8 at the Museum Gallery Shop; also the Brooklyn Museum of Art poster ($3) portrays a black-and-white photograph of an art class and model%u2014-the model is clothed but the class is nude. Andfor art lovers, a Brooklyn Museum membership is only $20.BROOKLYN ON THE WALLBrooklyn Rediscovery, five imaginative Brooklyn posters sell at $2 a piece. At the Seated Indian Shop you%u2019ll find the Whitney Museum of Art%u2019s poster ($6.50) commemorating the exhibition there in 1976 of the original drawings for the Brooklyn Bridge, A copy of Harper%u2019s Weekly%u2019s, May 26, 1883 edition marking the opening of the bridge is also there, as well as handcolored copies of turn-of-the-century and earlier historical Brooklyn drawings. Scenes of Coney Island, the bridge and more are available in black-and-white and sepia tone photographs made from old and new negatives starting at $12.50.More, more Brooklyn is at SummaGallery, 152 Montague St. Here are original lithographs from Harper%u2019s Week1-. r?------1. t w ---------%u2022%u2014 %u2014 J *J | * %u00bb %u00ab u n LiWOUC 3 m n g l U . I I %u2019W' UUU w ry * * ...-----American, many hand-colored, of Prospect Park, the Bridge, and other scenes. Three etchings by Bruce Zator supply a contemporary portrait of the Brooklyn Bridge. The Bridge, as a gift, is also available on a piece of glass. A reproduction of thePage 14. The PHOENIX, December 20,1979