Tag: Historical

Coney Island was the largest and most famous entertainment center in the world. It was compose...

I’ve written a few articles about the development of Coney Island, from the Golden Age of th...

One could say that after Olmsted and Vaux experimented in Central Park, they came to Brooklyn ...

Read Part 1 of this story. New York City in the summer of 1863 was a powder keg looking for a...

Read Part 2 of this story. There is nothing more frightening than a mob, nothing more uncontr...

Forgotten NY had a fun post this weekend about the 46th Street Rock Palace in Bensonhurst, a one-t...

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this story. The decade leading up to the Civil War was not...

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 4 of this story. By the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, N...

Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. The African slave trade to the New World touch...

Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. Many times, in telling the stories of Brooklyn...