1880s House Envy: Reporter Visits “The Most Magnificent Private Residence in Brooklyn”
Mention of the Gilded Age may conjure visions of Edith Wharton's Manhattan, but there's no better ...
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This Sears Mail-Order Home Cost $1,652, Was Shipped to Canarsie on a Buggy
Through its Modern Homes program, Sears, Roebuck and Co. sold some 75,000 mail-order houses betw...
The End of the World: Charles T. Russell and Why the Jehovah’s Witnesses Came to Brooklyn
Read Part 2 of this story. The Jehovah's Witnesses have been making headlines in Brooklyn since t...
Shirley Chisholm, Robert Kennedy, Bed Stuy and More: 5 Longreads for a Long Weekend
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we've collected the stories of a few remarkable Brooklyn p...
First Fort Greene, Then the World: Sweet’N Low’s Bittersweet Brooklyn History
You've seen the pink packets. You may even have seen the signs painted on a Fort Greene factory....
Brooklyn’s Bittiest Nabe: How Vinegar Hill Got Its Name
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprisin...
From Do or Die to Do or Dine: How Bed Stuy Got Its Name
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprisin...
The Glorious Rebirth of Brooklyn’s Wondrous Kings Theatre
After being closed up for decades, with the very real possibility of condemnation and destructio...
The Remarkable Rise of Philanthropist Lena Sittig and the Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society
Beginning in the 1890s and for nearly 40 years after, the Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society brough...
Visitors to See History in the Making at Brooklyn Historical Society’s Empire Stores Museum
As the finishing touches on Empire Stores are completed in preparation for its spring grand openin...
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