A precursor to the cinema, a major exhibition depicting the pivotal 1863 Battle of Gettysburg stood near Brooklyn City Hall in Downtown Brooklyn for years, where thousands paid 50 cents each to view it.
Greenpoint was always a major manufacturing center in Brooklyn’s long history, home to everything from ceramics to glassworks to shipbuilding.
The firm's unassuming but numerous buildings changed the look of Brooklyn.
St. Vincent’s established its first home in 1869 but by the turn of the century was running out of space.
Although many of Brooklyn’s historic bank buildings are quite large and very often quite impressive, that’s not always the case.
Brooklyn is home to both monumental and everyday examples of this versatile material.
With its low stoop, center stair, intimate scale and rounded forms, Anglo-Italianate is a quaint and feminine building type.
In the late 19th century, Brooklynites had many ways to celebrate the New Year but the ability to participate depended on one's social class.
The Brooklyn Christmas of 1899 was not so different than today, a tale of the haves and the have-nots.
The building is reminiscent of movie palaces and popular eateries of the 1920s and ‘30s, when the craze for this style of ornamentation peaked.
