Walkabout: Brooklyn’s Small Parks: Tompkins Park, Part 2
Read Part 1 of this story. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux laid out Tompkins Park in 1871....
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Gut Renovation on Bushwick Avenue
A gut renovation is underway at 1002 Bushwick Avenue, an imposing red brick building originally buil...
BAM Gets Funding to Digitize Its Historical Archives
The Brooklyn Academy of Music received a $1 million grant to create the Leon Levy BAM Digital Arch...
Past and Present: Poplar Street
A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. Brooklyn Heights was well named, as the bluffs facing the...
Walkabout: Brooklyn’s Small Parks: Brower Park, Part 2
Read Part 1 of this story. In 1892, the City of Brooklyn established Bedford Park, one of a g...
Walkabout: Brooklyn’s Small Parks: Brower Park, Part 1
(Photograph: Bedford (now Brower) Park with the William Newton Adams House on the hill.) Read P...
Walkabout: The Training School and Home for Girls, Part 3
By 1919, the new buildings of the Brooklyn Training School and Home for Girls were complete. N...
Walkabout: The Training School and Home for Girls, Part 2
At the turn of the 20th century, a teenage girl without a home, family, friends, or money didn...
Past and Present: Brooklyn Hospital
A Look at Brooklyn, then and now. In Brooklyn’s early days, if you needed a doctor, he ei...
Walkabout: The Training School and Home for Girls, Part 1
While searching through various photo archives for photographs of Brooklyn and its architectur...
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