Flatbush + Main: The Brooklyn Theatre Fire
Update: 2025-10-17
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This episode was originally published on <time class="datetime" datetime="2017-11-03T11:00:14 +00:00 ">November 3, 2017.</time>
In Episode 19 of Brooklyn Historical Society's podcast Flatbush + Main, co-hosts Zaheer Ali and Julie Golia examine an important but long-forgotten tragedy in Brooklyn's past: the Brooklyn Theatre Fire of 1876, and discuss the Gilded Age, municipal reform, class relations, the culture of leisure, and the politics of memory in the 19th century - and today.
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