Tag: Historical

Looks like the vacant lot between 8th and 9th streets, near 3rd Avenue -- a site believed by some to...

Read Part 1 of this story. We tend to equate public housing, aka “the projects,” with the...

A Park Slope resident spotted some trucks and equipment yesterday at the vacant lot between 8th an...

The Hotel Bossert sale from the Jehovah's Witnesses to real estate moguls David Bistricer and Jose...

It's not House Beautiful yet, but here's our new salvage living room mantel. The mantel it repla...

Read Part 2 of this story. Money, real estate, and housing. These have been three of the fact...

What we are reading this week about decorating and renovating old houses: Gaswizard's photostre...

In New York City, in the year 1906, Stanford White was America’s most famous architect. His fi...

At one time, most of Bushwick and other eastern parts of Brooklyn were covered in fanciful late-19...

Harry Kendall Thaw of Pittsburgh, Pa., killed Stanford White. There was never any doubt about th...