How Red Hook and the Buttermilk Channel Got Their Names
By Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris) Our neighborhoods all have interesting place nam...
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: From Synagogue by Famous Architects to Banal Pile of Bricks in Bed Stuy
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. While this may look like the world's fanciest traffic-court...
Building of the Day: 410-418 Myrtle Avenue, Built for the Wallabout Bank
Brooklyn, one building at a time. A local entrepreneur and developer built these buildings on Cl...
Building of the Day: 457 and 461 Vanderbilt Avenue, Matching Carriage Houses
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Carriage houses and other service buildings were as important ...
Walkabout: Stylish Englishman Steals From Brooklyn Bank — a Cautionary Tale From 1893
Bryce Arthur Whyte was as English as Queen Victoria. He had a plummy upper-crust sounding name. ...
Building of the Day: 186 St. Johns Place, a Historic Church With Tiffany Stained Glass
Discussions of our 19th-century communities would be incomplete without a look at their houses of ...
Past and Present: Building the Clinton Apartments at 275 Clinton Avenue
A look at Brooklyn, then and now. Joseph Fahys was born in France in 1832. His father died yo...
Building of the Day: 330-334 Ellery Street — A School Becomes Home for Bushwick Artists
Brooklyn, one building at a time. This 1883 schoolhouse, one of hundreds designed by Brooklyn sc...
Building of the Day: 324A-340 New York Avenue, Basement Houses in “Eastern Parkway Heights”
Brooklyn, one building at a time. Rapid development in the first decades of the 20th century gav...
Walkabout: Meet Me in Coral Gardens, the Florida-Inspired “Old England” of Flatbush
Editor’s note: An updated version of this post can be viewed here. In the years after the Civil...
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