BPL Gets On-Demand Book Printing
Tucked among the cafe tables in the Brooklyn Public Library headquarters’ echoing main hall, a new machine whirred and buzzed. Then, down a chute, slipped a fresh, warm paperback.
The Espresso Book Machine, an instant, on-demand printing press, had arrived in Brooklyn.
Book Art By Jonathan Wiley, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin. Custom binding by Stone Manor Press.
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
“I once started out
to walk around the world
but ended up in Brooklyn,
that Bridge was too much for me.”
-A Coney Island of the Mind
Capone was from Park Slope.
Notorious gangster Alphonse “Al” Capone was born on January 17, 1899. At the time he filled out this World War I draft registration card he was still living in Brooklyn, prior to his move to Chicago.
Source: research.archives.gov
