Tag: Historical

While today the Empire Stores on Water Street in Dumbo sits empty and mired in bureaucratic muck, t...

Charles Lockwood, author of the definitive Bricks and Brownstone, sent in this photo of a mother an...

Check out this new photoblog called Re-Brooklyn. Photographer Zach van Schouwen has been restaging ...

This weekend, Flatbush Gardener took the time to commemorate New York City's worst transit disaster...

It was 29 years ago yesterday that the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Historic District was born, an arti...

Just last year, the city planned to raze some Duffield Street houses that may have been part of th...

If you didn't realize downtown Brooklyn was once grand, talk to Bob Furman, founding member of the ...

We've always been curious about the Hot Bird signs on Atlantic Avenue, those broad, bright yellow p...

According to sources, the city is close to choosing a team to commemorate the Abolitionist movement...

[nggallery id="22422" template=galleryview] Photogragher and urban explorer Nathan Kensinger got in...