Tag: Architecture

As American cities in the late 1800's became more crowded, the middle and upper class, multi-uni...

Since the day man figured out how to roll a stone in front of his cave from the inside, we've had d...

Yesterday we took a two hour hike up into the mountains overlooking our rented house in Praiano. Ab...

Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this story. On Nov. 19th, 1893, the New York Times wrote about thre...

Read Part 1 and Part 3 of this story. Armories were built for state National Guard units fo...

We were biking through Wallabout earlier this week and were struck by the rather odd design choice ...

[nggallery id="31835" template=galleryview] A book called The Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn has just ...

The armory story will continue next week. Our intrepid photographer couldn't get out much last w...

Read Part 2 and Part 3 of this story. There are castles in Brooklyn, fortresses, really, whic...

When we first moved to Brooklyn in 2003, we lived in the upper duplex of the yellow house on the f...