the Brooklyn Borough President
The Germans abandoned the city on August 12
"With startling informality and rapid tempo the Chief Executive moved through formal appointments
"There is a point past 3 o'clock when the loudest noise a stray visitor hears in the square is the click-click of the inner workings of a traffic signal switching lights
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Pinstripe Sluggers Size:20" x 25" the Brooklyn Borough PresidentHistory would show that 1937 marked the last great season for Lou Gehrig (left). The "Iron Horse," who would play in 2,130 consecutive games, hit 37 home runs that year, but the torch was being passed to the younger Joe DiMaggio (right), who smacked 46 homers in 1937 and was becoming the new star and "Yankee Clipper." Two years later, Gehrig would suffer Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, later to be known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease." On July 4, 1939, he