Tag: Historical

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4 of this story. In April of 1873, when the warming breezes of ...

Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. We don’t hear the work “defalcation” use...

Attention old house lovers: A charming, 1890s-era Victorian house still stands in Flushing, Queens, ...

Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. On a warm summer day in July, 1873, Ethelbert ...

Read Part 1 of this story. Here in Brooklyn, once sedentary office workers, executives and st...

Read Part 2 of this story. Does this sound familiar? “As a result of the Industrial Revolut...

Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this story. Many people don’t realize that our subway system was on...

Read Part 1 and Part 3 of this story. The residents of Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights woke ...

Read Part 2 and Part 3 of this story. At one point, in the mid-18th century, Philip Livingston ow...

A church in downtown Brooklyn has put its historic building back on the market as a development ...