Tag: Historical

As the Waterfront Preservation Alliance points out in its most recent blog post, the ubiquitous vin...

Given that eminent domain is on everyone's mind these days, we were interested to come across this ...

Who knew that these little window canopies were all the rage in Bed Stuy back in the 1920s? (This s...

This weekend, Christopher Gray took a look at the history of one of Brooklyn's architectural landma...

Forgotten NY throws us a fastball down the middle this week with its look at Edwin Litchfield's imp...

When we visited Brooklyn Borough Hall last week for Dine in Brooklyn 2007 Kick Off, we ducked into ...

This photo of Bedford Stuyvesant from 1923 looks like a movie set. Where are all the people? The lo...

Fort Greene Park — the borough's first outdoor recreation area — came into being in ...

This photo from the turn of the century shows a much different promenade in Brooklyn Heights. Until...

Last weekend's New York Times article on Robert Moses, written on the eve of three new museum retro...