In a Brooklyn Church one Sunday in 1848, a fiery young preacher stood at his pulpit, gesturing at a handsome mulatto girl who sat near him on the platform. Cried he: ”This is a marketable commodity!

Image: Michael Reynolds/Bloomberg News Brooklyn, N.Y. “Welcome ... gesturing toward the pew in front of her on my first visit to Plymouth Church, in 1996. A young lawyer from Kentucky toting ...

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — On Sunday, chilly wind gusts barreled up Hicks Street as more than 150 people lined up outside historic Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights. Some pulled suitcases, some held ...

Green-Wood Cemetery (Greenwood Heights/South Slope) and Plymouth Church (Brooklyn Heights) came in at numbers one and two after Viator’s experts analyzed reviews on TripAdvisor and compared them ...

“The Plymouth Church, now under way ... which must approve the move. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and ...

CBS2's Steve Overmyer takes us inside a historic safe haven. A spot underneath Plymouth Church in Brooklyn was part of the path to freedom -- a station on the Underground Railroad -- 170 years ago.

The Brooklyn-Queens Connecting Highway ... Eight years later, Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Church — a keen advocate of city planning — suggested building “a boulevard one hundred ...

The primary season was underway, and the group of pastors at Plymouth United Church of Christ had a full ... self-described democratic socialist from Brooklyn can draw big crowds in Des Moines.

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