Tag: Historical

Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. On January 1, 1898, the City of New York offic...

Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. With Brooklyn’s newly crowned status as the new...

(Former Sheffield Dairy Bottling Plant, Fulton Street, Bedford Stuyvesant. Now part of Restoration...

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4 of this story. “Got Milk?” This may be a catch phrase from a ...

A couple weeks ago an $8 million listing appeared for the Baptist church on Schermerhorn Street an...

Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. The longest war fought by New Yorkers in the 19th ...

Thomas D. Carman was a very successful merchant, living in 19th century Brooklyn Heights, at 3...

Photo: New inmates getting fitted with stripes at Sing Sing. Correctionhistory.org. At the en...

We love it when this kind of thing happens! Here's an email we received earlier this week from a g...

On January 6, 1913, the trail of David A. Sullivan began in Brooklyn Supreme Court. He was the...