Walkabout: It’s Nice to Be Ice, Part 3
Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4 of this story. On January 1st, 1898, Brooklyn officially beca...
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Big Fort Greene Complex Sells for $7.5 Million
A historic but not landmarked grouping of Fort Greene buildings on three lots marketed as a deve...
Bushwick Avenue Church Steeple Repaired
When we passed by the Reformed Church of South Bushwick at 855 Bushwick Avenue New Year's Day, t...
Walkabout: It’s Nice to Be Ice, Part 1
Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. When it comes to business, there have been man...
Walkabout: Children’s Christmas, 1899
Many of our American society’s most enduring Christmas traditions come from the Victorian Age....
Weeksville Struggles with Dwindling Funding
Weeksville Heritage Center is facing a shrinking budget just as it opens a brand new museum buil...
Walkabout: The Coignet Building – What’s the Big Deal?
With the opening of Whole Foods this week, the condition and fate of the Coignet building has be...
Walkabout: A Visit From St. Nicholas, a Troy Story
“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, the throng assembled and continued t...
Closing Bell: Brooklyn Historical Society to Unveil Exhibit on Brooklyn Abolitionists
The Brooklyn Historical Society next month will debut an exhibit about the abolitionist movement in ...
Walkabout: Calvert Vaux, Architect, Part 4
Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3Â of this story. Prospect Park was not even half completed whe...
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