Building of the Day: 532-540 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Former F.W. Woolworth Company, now assorted storefro...
Suzanne Spellen
Suzanne Spellen is a longtime Brownstoner contributor. She is an architectural historian, researcher, and writer with a special love for Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and local African American history. She loves old houses, architectural detail, and enjoys exploring new places, camera in hand.
Past and Present: The Intersection of Flatbush and Linden
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. At the dawn of the 20th century, Flatbush was a growing an...
Building of the Day: 234 Clinton Street
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Row house Address: 234 Clinton Street Cross Streets: A...
Walkabout: The Three Graces of Brooklyn, Part 1
Politics have taken up our front pages for months now, and now that the election is over, in the...
Building of the Day: 762 St. Marks Avenue
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Apartment building Address: 762 St. Marks Avenue C...
Building of the Day: 1177 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Former stables, then church; parking garage, now apa...
Walkabout: The Williamsburg Houses, Part 2
Read Part 1 of this story. We tend to equate public housing, aka “the projects,” with the...
Building of the Day: 131 Arlington Avenue
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Originally Trinity Episcopal Church, now St. Joseph...
Building of the Day: 53 Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Originally William H. Childs House, now Brooklyn Eth...
Past and Present: The Vaughan Institute
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. I regularly search eBay for postcards and photographs of hi...
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