Sexton, Joe. "Baseball; Hometown Hero With an Arm of Clay", The New York Times, February 4, 1991. Accessed April 15, 2024."A year ago, Franco, a star at Lafayette High School and then St. John's before going on to become one of the most perplexing and thus feared relievers in the game as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, had to request a police guard at his door in Gravesend to ward off random revelers in the announcement that he had been traded to the Mets."
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Letter to the Editor: Gravesend, The New York Times, December 20, 1992. Accessed October 28, 2007. "As a historical archeologist specializing in the early history of New York, I can tell you that what is now the Gravesend section of Brooklyn was not named for the hometown that Lady Deborah Moody and her followers left in England, as you stated in your article about the community on Oct. 18, but by the Dutch governor-general, William Kieft. Kieft chose to name the settlement " 's'Gravesande" after the town in Holland that had been the seat of the Counts of Holland before they moved to the Hague. It means the count's sand or beach."
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