Tag: Historical

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4 of this story. The dawn of 1889 began with a small financial ...

Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. In the old Grimm’s fairy tale, the boastful ...

A quick, last-minute trip to the Hudson Valley over the Memorial Day weekend unexpectedly turned...

Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. Far from being the name of a psychedelic band ...

Frank M. Smith, of 351 11th Street in Park Slope, was a chemist with a factory in Brooklyn. His ...

We're not sure when this addition was completed in the rear of Theobald Engelhardt's 1889 Roman...

The winter of 1862 to ’63 was an eventful one for the wealthy inhabitants of Brooklyn Heights. Whi...

Read Part 1 of this story. In 1896, two Brooklyn entrepreneurs, Thomas Adams, Jr. and Percy W...

Read Part 2 of this story. A summer day’s journey to the beach at Coney Island has long bee...

On a bright early summer day in June of 1893, Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Santoire, of 148 Clinton Stree...