Building of the Day: 24-26 South Oxford Street
(Photo: Googlemaps) Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Row house Address: 24-26 Sou...
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.
Walkabout: The Gold Street Explosion, Part 1
Read Part 2 of this story. You know those sequences in movies and documentaries where the cam...
Building of the Day: 1050 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn, one building at a time. (Photo from 2010) Name: former Packard Automobile Showroom ...
Walkabout: Trashing Atlantic Avenue, Part 2
Read Part 1 of this story. In March of 1912, the Real Estate Record and Builder’s Guide, the bi...
Building of the Day: 116 Rogers Avenue
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Carmel Christian School, originally the Swedish Ho...
Building of the Day: 360 Schermerhorn Street
(Photograph: nycago.org) Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: The Baptist Temple, orig...
Walkabout: Trashing Atlantic Avenue, Part 1
Read Part 2 of this story. Atlantic Avenue is one of Brooklyn’s great thoroughfares, today stre...
Building of the Day: 244-254 Gates Avenue
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Row houses Address: 244-254 Gates Avenue Cross Streets: Fr...
Building of the Day: 645-647 St. Marks Avenue
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Name: Row houses Address: 645-647 St Marks Avenue Cros...
Past and Present: Polo Fields in Prospect Park
A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. The first polo game played in Prospect Park took place on...
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