Tag: Historical

A reader pointed us to this charming history of Greenpoint, commissioned by the Green Point Savings ...

The Sunset Park Landmarks Committee will hold a walking tour of the neighborhood next Saturday, Ap...

Read Part 1 of this story. If you live in Brooklyn today, you know that the borough is spor...

Wallabout is waking from its long slumber with several major developments planned, new retail in t...

Quite a few of Brooklyn’s most prolific and successful architects have a German background: ...

Inhabitat has renderings for the new addition at the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House, the city's old...

This is the second of a series of articles about important and perhaps unknown craftspeople with...

The Brooklyn Heights group Citizens Defending Libraries was out gathering signatures for a petitio...

Brooklyn Height’s status as the “first suburb” is both a blessing to the neighborhood, and a c...

Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5 of this story. The Civil War was over. For the...