The Changing Faces of Red Hook, as Seen in Maps From 1770 to the Present
By Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris) Live in Brooklyn long enough, and you'll be used...
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.
The End of the World: Charles T. Russell and Why the Jehovah’s Witnesses Came to Brooklyn
Read Part 2 of this story. The Jehovah's Witnesses have been making headlines in Brooklyn since t...
The Glorious Rebirth of Brooklyn’s Wondrous Kings Theatre
After being closed up for decades, with the very real possibility of condemnation and destructio...
Parties, Gossip and Too Much Brew: How 19th-Century Brooklynites Celebrated the New Year
For those following the Gregorian calendar, and that’s most of us, that magic moment when the ...
The Remarkable Rise of Philanthropist Lena Sittig and the Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society
Beginning in the 1890s and for nearly 40 years after, the Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society brough...
Black Pride, Kung Fu and Social Justice: The Life and Times of Bed Stuy’s Slave Theater
For many people in Bedford Stuyvesant, home to Brooklyn’s largest African American community, Fult...
Industry City’s Rise, Fall and Rebirth, From Wartime Manufacturing to Artisanal Mecca
Read Part 1 of this story here. The huge gray cement factory buildings that span Sunset Park's sh...
5 Gone-but-Not-Forgotten Brooklyn Shopping Emporiums
We can blame the late Victorian era for the commercialization of Christmas. The late 1800s gave us...
How Victorian Brooklyn Celebrated Turkey Day
Thanksgiving in America has always been a rather strange combination of festival, food and froli...
How Bananas Built Industry City — the Story of Sunset Park’s Bush Terminal
Read Part 2 of this story here. In the last few years, Sunset Park's Industry City, a 16-building...
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