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Hi, My name is Akosua Albritton, a resident of Brooklyn, and I'm on a mission to move Brooklyn from an "outer borough" to Brooklyn front and center. I'm growing a tour guide business called Brooklyn Treasures Uncovered that offers a nature walk, neighborhood walks, presentations, a tour of churches, and visits to places of interests. New itineraries pop out of my head.
Before starting Brooklyn Treasures Uncovered, I taught a Summer Intensive that was called History of Blacks in Brooklyn for 11 years at a local college. My adult learners brought their families and friends along to enjoy the places we visited and listen to my talks. It was a fun way to learn. When a friend heard my description of my class, she said, "You should turn it into a business--just don't give them tests."
It took me a few years to act on my friend's suggestion. Then, I approached a public high school (Erasmus Hall High) to promote it as an afterschool program. While the school considered it, I began taking members of senior centers out to places and did presentations at a community room, a church, and under the Sailors and Soldiers Monument at Grand Army Plaza.
So my business needs fuel to grow and thrive. It needs $11,000 for essential business set up, sales & marketing, and product development. Will you please chip in $35, $50, $100 or more to get this business on firm ground? I have great thank you gifts for your support. The details are in another section.
Last thing, Brooklyn waft it's magic on me years ago when I took the A train the wrong direction. Instead of heading to lower Manhattan, the train went deeper into Brooklyn. I got off at the Nostrand Avenue stop. I walked up the stairs to the surface to find religious groups promoting themselves--one on each of the four corners. One corner had Shango Baptists dressed in red and white, another had Hebrew Israelites who I intially thought were pirates, the other had clean cut Nation of Islam reps, and the fourth had a nearby Christian church member reading from the Bible. I had never seen such a spectacle. Four years later, I moved to Brooklyn five blocks away from the past spectacle.
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These are 3 items: The timeline is a 3-page illustrated document recording historic events from 1609 to 2016; 55 Interesting Places is an annotated list of well known monuments and sights located in Brooklyn; and Subway Tours uses the train lines 2/5 and Q/B to travel to such places as DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Atlantic Center Mall, Brighton Beach, and Coney Island.
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These are 3 items: The timeline is a 3-page illustrated document recording historic events from 1609 to 2016; 55 Interesting Places is an annotated list of well known monuments and sights located in Brooklyn; and Subway Tours uses the train lines 2/5 and Q/B to travel to such places as DUMBO, Brooklyn Heights, Atlantic Center Mall, Brighton Beach, and Coney Island.
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