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N.Y.). Committee of Ten Brooklyn (New York

Created by a civic committee rather than a single writer, this book offers a practical, on-the-ground look at Brooklyn during a moment of big urban change. It reads like a snapshot of the borough’s ambitions, problems, and plans for the future.

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Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn

Down Town Brooklyn A Report to the Comptroller of the City of New York on Sites for Public Buildings and the Relocation of the Elevated Railroad Tracks now in Lower Fulton Street, Borough of Brooklyn

by N.Y.). Committee of Ten Brooklyn (New York

About the author

This work is credited to the Committee of Ten of Brooklyn, New York, a civic group rather than an individual author. Contemporary catalog records and digitized editions identify the committee as the creator of Down Town Brooklyn, a report prepared for the comptroller of the City of New York about public building sites and the relocation of elevated railroad tracks in lower Fulton Street.

The book grew out of an effort to study Brooklyn’s development in a systematic way. In the Project Gutenberg edition, the committee is described as having been formed to examine local planning problems and propose solutions, which gives the text its clear, report-like style.

Because this was a committee authorship, there does not appear to be a single personal biography or portrait attached to the name. What stands out instead is the group’s role in documenting how Brooklyn’s civic leaders were thinking about transportation, public space, and the shape of downtown in the early twentieth century.